Floor sockets in living rooms?

[endecotp]

Does anyone ever fit floor sockets in living rooms?

Before I started renovating my living room, we had a couple of “trip hazard” extension leads for TV, chargers etc. Floor sockets - in the right places - would fix that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them in domestic settings though.

Thoughts?

 

[Taylortwocities]

I have installed several in houses. Nothing wrong with it, but they are a pain to do. Getting cable across the floor can be a challenge.

 

[Murdochcat]

Flush with the floor or recessed?

 

[Taylortwocities]

Flush with the floor or recessed?

Isn’t that the same thing?

 

[endecotp]

Since I’m currently replacing the floor, this is the time to do it (if ever). The uncertainty is whether I can choose the right place(s) now without having precisely planned how the renovated room will be furnished and used. Hmmm.

 

[Murdochcat]

Isn’t that the same thing?

Nope - flush means the plug sticks out from the floor, recessed means it’s concealed

 

[JohnD]

Since I’m currently replacing the floor, this is the time to do it (if ever). The uncertainty is whether I can choose the right place(s) now without having precisely planned how the renovated room will be furnished and used. Hmmm.

You could reasonably put them round the edges of the room. Not where people are likely to trip over them.

In most rooms, I think a double socket in every corner, and one in the middle of each wall, and every two metres along the wall, is about enough.

Though when I ask myself "is a floor socket better than a wall socket" I answer myself "no."

 

[Murdochcat]

Floor sockets are very common in newer larger properties ……, flush and recessed

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Before I started renovating my living room, we had a couple of “trip hazard” extension leads for TV, chargers etc. Floor sockets - in the right places - would fix that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them in domestic settings though.

They only serve a purpose, where power might be needed, away from the wall, towards the middle of a room. Those I have seen, but never in a domestic setting, have the socket in an inset box, with a carpeted lid, and a flap for the flex outlet. Usually, including a LAN socket. This arrangement is common, in offices, using rows of desks, with the outlets under the desks.

 

[pete01]

The lid has to be metal

 

[plugwash]

Though when I ask myself "is a floor socket better than a wall socket" I answer myself "no."

I suspect it depends on the room size.

In normal size domestic rooms, the furniture normally goes round the edge, but if I lived in a mansion with much large rooms I would probablly want to put furniture in a location that was not alongside a wall. At which point I would want to get power to those locations without having to gaffer tape extension leads to the floor.

 

[FrodoOne]

Does anyone ever fit floor sockets in living rooms?

Before I started renovating my living room, we had a couple of “trip hazard” extension leads for TV, chargers etc. Floor sockets - in the right places - would fix that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them in domestic settings though.

Thoughts?

Now, why would there be "a couple of “trip hazard” extension leads for TV, chargers etc."?
If you have sufficient Socket-Outlets on any (or all) Four Walls, why world there be any need to have "Extension Leads" across any floor space?

Unless the TV descends from the ceiling, any TV is usually "against walls", plugged into a Socket-Outlet there
and
connected to its various TV "connections" - on the same wall.

Why would "chargers" (for what devices) be anywhere except close to a wall?

Please explain, with photos.

 

[bernardgreen]

How the TV and video etc ( under the spiral stairs ) were supplied in the old house. This house was a fully DIY build

 

[JohnD]

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[endecotp]

any TV is usually "against walls"

Neither the TV nor the sofa was against a wall before I started renovating this room.

Chargers are needed at the sofa because someone spends their time on the sofa scrolling and has a phone with battery life measured in minutes.

Sorry no photos as the room currently has no floor or walls, let alone sofa or TV (see my “your projects” thread).