Floor Mounted Plug Socket For Recliner

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Hi All, I'm fitting laminate flooring and need to fit a floor plug socket.

I've got the old laminate up now, and there's two holes in the main flooring boards and I can see about 2ft of crawl space below it.

I was going to spur off from one of the wall sockets, however there's also wiring running in the crawl space, and I was thinking it would be a hell of a lot easier for me to break into that, fit a bell housing junction box, and spur from that to the location for the floor socket?

My only concern is that I'm not sure what that wiring is for? As it seems to run accross the floor from wall to wall in the centre of the room, therefore it can't be the ring main?

We also have an outside garden room with its own seperate isolation unit, therefore I'm wondering whether it's feeding that?

Can I spur from that if it is going to the garden room?

But again I'm not even sure if it is feeding the garden room. I have no idea what it's feeding unless I lift the whole lot of the flooring up!??
 
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If you're going to put joins under any flooring it needs to be maintenance free. If the laminate's up just run a radial to where ever you need the socket. Though if you can't work out what cables are for certain circuits it sounds like you haven't the right experience to do it.
 
Floor mounted sockets can easily be damaged.

Give some thought to being able to fully isolate the socket in case damage does occur.

I would fit a two pole switched fused connector next to this socket
ScubaCollie said:
I was going to spur off from one of the wall sockets,
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and wire it as spur from that socket.

Then run new cable from the switched fused connector to the socket in the floor.

This was the arrangement I used for this socket

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AIUI sockets on the floor fall into two basic categories.

There are the "floor sockets" with spring loaded covers as shown in bernards post, the problem with these is that they are easily damaged and a trip hazard, especially when in use.

The better option IMO are "floor boxes", these have the sockets set considerably below floor level and have a removable cover that can be refitted after plugging in the equipment. So you just have the flex coming out of a small flap in the floor. The downside is that they tend to be relatively large and expensive with most boxes designed to be big enough to provide both power and networking. After some searching I did find one sized to provide one double socket at a somewhat reasonable price.

https://www.alertelectrical.com/tass-tfb1-1-compartment-floor-box.html plus https://www.alertelectrical.com/tass-sto291-twin-switched-sockets.html
 
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SimonH2 said:
Those flap type sockets are also good or slicing toes open - as a clerk found out at a previous job.
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Agreed, they can be very hazardous when located in clear floor space. But when they are "protected" by furniture or other item that prevents people walking across the socket they have an acceptably low enough risk.
 
If you buy the correct floor box you can use the existing removed laminate so the box is (nearly) invisible
 
Sure today there might be a recliner in the middle of the room (i'm assuming that the reason a floor socket is needed is that the chair is not against the wall) to satisfy the special needs of a given occupant, but will it remain there for the remaining life of the electrical installation?
 
Seen that many times at previous jobs doing networking.
I'd get a floorplan, mark where I think a network connection might be needed - and work from that. Several times, both internally and for clients, I'd find things removed (we don't need that many) or moved (my desk will be here). And several times I found we were missing points where we needed them - as we moved the desks in ! More than a little annoying.
 
Hi Guys, all sorted, socket installed, and laminate flooring laid, here's a photo of the finished product, I just need to cut a piece of laminate to install in the top of the box, refit the skirting, and then all finished.
 

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