Own up, who did this? - The house with a million plug sockets

James · Nov 2, 2019

Someone either was on a price per fitting or maybe just had a few extra in the van they wanted to get rid of?

House goes on sale for £1.3m - but odd design leaves people feeling 'ill'

The bizarre feature of the £1.3m home has left people baffled after being spotted by a house-hunter

www.mirror.co.uk

Baddegg · Nov 2, 2019

Love per point pricing.....reminds me still owed £120,000 final stage on that one.....

Andy78 · Nov 2, 2019

Seen that elsewhere. Absolutely disgusting install. What was the need for 90% of any of that ?

snowhead · Nov 2, 2019

You can never have enough sockets.

You can however not have enough wall to put them on.

I'd guess that with the furniture that was in that room you'd see hardly anything showing.

ChrisElectrical88 · Nov 2, 2019

Jesus, the electrician must have a made a wedge from this job.

static zap · Nov 2, 2019

Sell to an art buff , cover walls in TVs ,fish tanks etc
--- oops if you can find a safe zone for brackets !

Spoon · Nov 2, 2019

I think they could so with some cable tray in them rooms.. Going to each socket...

Baddegg · Nov 2, 2019

Spoon said:
I think they could so with some cable tray in them rooms.. Going to each socket...

Probably couldn’t afford it...

ipf · Nov 2, 2019

At least it proves they don't like 3 way plug in adapters.....

Dustydazzler · Nov 2, 2019

The only way you could ever justify such an abomination is if the room was some sort of home office with lots of desks and kit going in

Have been asked in the past to install 7 or 8 twins in a small bedroom that was going to be used as small office. but always in white plastic sockets.

I personally hate all that flat plate stuff all on the walls looks carp if you ask me

ChrisElectrical88 · Nov 2, 2019

Wheres that dude who in the other thread who wanted to C2 5 sockets on a 16A MCB. He would have a field day with this install.

PEG · Nov 2, 2019

That looks like two things....

Stick-on fake face plates (ebay)

....and shed load of cheap advertising?

littlespark · Nov 2, 2019

You should see the bathroom.....
17 wash hand basins and half a dozen toilet pans

Snailspark · Nov 2, 2019

James the Spark1976 said:
Someone either was on a price per fitting or maybe just had a few extra in the van they wanted to get rid of?

House goes on sale for £1.3m - but odd design leaves people feeling 'ill'

The bizarre feature of the £1.3m home has left people baffled after being spotted by a house-hunter

www.mirror.co.uk

Might have been a trainee getting some practice in!!!

robd · Nov 3, 2019

Who would dare hang a picture in that house there must be cable everywhere

Dan · Nov 3, 2019

I bet it looked like a right man cave when it was full of all the tech! I'd love to see a picture of all the rooms full of all the gadgets.

Bet you couldn't move though.

Bet it was a disco-dave type guy who had laser light shows on his tod.

littlespark · Nov 3, 2019

I don't know whats more bizarre- the number of sockets in that room, or the number of times someone has tried to start a new thread on the same story.

My living room has 10 doubles... but I designed it that way. All normal height... not even one behind the wall mounted telly.

FatAlan · Nov 3, 2019

They were probably running a boiler room. Either on the run in Australia or locked up

rs1987 · Nov 4, 2019

indoor cannabis farm

James · Nov 4, 2019

rs1987 said:
indoor cannabis farm

aren't they all?

7029 dave · Nov 4, 2019

Overkill to an extreme, I am only used to 1 double per room and 1 light pendant. (IN DAYS GONE BY)

James · Nov 4, 2019

7029 dave said:
Overkill to an extreme, I am only used to 1 double per room and 1 light pendant. (IN DAYS GONE BY)

when the humble British 3 pin plug was developed that was right.
it was intended to supply a heater of up to 3Kw
why on earth would you need more than that in one room!!

Dustydazzler · Nov 6, 2019

Now being discussed on the Jeremy Vine show...

Mike Johnson · Sep 10, 2020

The last hi-end property I was involved with had twenty seven viewing screens spread around the property all linked to the stock market, the data cabling had to be seen to be believed also the amount of sockets in each room, the cables where run vertically in a hidden service duct in each room and accessed the outlets from floor level, the sort of layout shown in the room in question is not unusual, but could look a bit better.