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Default 13A Sockets with USB sockets

On 31/12/2020 16:40, ARW wrote:
On 29/12/2020 22:52, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:45:48 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Not to mention the fire risk from some elctronics permenantly

connect
to the mains and subject to all the spikes and crap on that. And

if
it does catch fire no easy way of removing the power.

Surely a socket is already in a fire proof'd enclosure?


Plastic dryline box fitted into a timber stud wall?
Metal box mounted on a noggin in a timber stud wall?

Granted not high risk of burning the place down, provided bits of
burning plastic don't fall onto the carpet. But there would no doubt
be smoke damage to decoration and replacing the possibly
burnt/damaged fixed wiring might be interesting.


https://www.edwardes.co.uk/products/...boxes-127x68mm


https://bbcmews.co.uk/news



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should be

https://www.directtradesupplies.co.u...gasket--white-

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