Floating sockets..

[robinbanks]

Amusingly coincidentally on the heels of the thread about a pair of double sockets on T&E into a plug and whether it’s not/part of an installation, I pulled the washer out of a relatively newly fitted kitchen, during a friend’s house move and found this..

 

[ericmark]

Not the floating sockets I thought, but twin and earth should be installed, so not really compliant, but it is nevertheless quite common.

Personally I would not worry about it.

 

[Ragnar_AT]

At least the stuffing gland hopefully provides strain relief. Most times I‘ve seen setups like this there was flex with exposed cores hanging out of the pattress box.

PS: that floating power strip wasn’t plugged in. A Swiss news web site tracked down an entire album of pictures from that event and at least one of the pics clearly showed the plug on the ground, no socket anywhere to be seen.