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Found at Velvet Coaster Wetherspoons in Blackpool.
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Back box not secure I guess
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When I moved into my present house, 30+ years ago (then most recently re-wired in the 60s), there were a good few sockets attached with wood screws to (massive, Victorian, about 9" x 3") skirting boards with no backbox.
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If it hadn’t got one, they would have probably used the existing holes.
Not necessarily, if they were lazy (as well as everything else
) ....... if, being lazy, one just cuts a rectangular hole in the wood, if that hole is small enough for the faceplate screw holes to be used for screwing into the wood, it's quite possible that the 'works' of the socket won't fit through the hole. Hence, if one wants to use the faceplate holes (to screw to wood), one may have to get one's jigsaw/whatever out and cut a hole in the wood which had protruding 'lugs' for the screws at the sides (as in a back box) (and, even then, those lugs might snap off when one tries to screw into them!)
Kind Regards, John
You're quibbling - they are fairly 'similar'Love the fact that its not even a matching pair of screws!
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What frightens me is that it is in a commercial premises that the public use.
If someone got hurt by that, by whatever means, their insurance would get slammed if this pic, (or one taken at the time of the incident), was shown as evidence.
SS, I would suggest that, morally, you should send this to their head office and ask what they intend to do to rectify it and class it as a priority.
(You never know, you may get a voucher for a freebie. )
If someone got hurt by that, by whatever means, their insurance would get slammed if this pic, (or one taken at the time of the incident), was shown as evidence.
SS, I would suggest that, morally, you should send this to their head office and ask what they intend to do to rectify it and class it as a priority.
(You never know, you may get a voucher for a freebie.
)I agree with what you go on to say IF 'someone got hurt by it' - but how on earth is that likely (or not so likely!) to happen?
Kind Regards, John
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Okay I agree that it shouldn't be like that especially in a public place although it's, probably as safe, might even be safer, as if the correct screws had been used. The stuff you buy these days is all so much sh1te. The original screws VERY easily cross thread and break the cheap plastic housing. Or when they are tightenened , not very tight, the thread inserts are VERY easily pulled out of the plastic. As I say what we buy in this country these days is extremely cheap sh1te for lots of money.
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Most likely get scratch from one of those screws
Probably true, but I suspect that you would soon get tired of counting how many other things in a branch of Wetherspoons you might get scratched by!
Kind Regards, John
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