Why would you

[Guest55]

You're getting confused.

I know , and your posts arent helping.

 

[snowhead]

All we can say for definite is that there was a need for such a label on a socket and someone felt the need to pay money to have it done.

Thinking about it, it's more likely 30 or 40 years ago, being unswitched.

 

[Bobster]

It could be in a hotel/similar establishment, so the socket is left free for people who come in from the outside?

Edit: should learn to read properly, read it as outside rather than outdoor

 

[snowhead]

Can someone lock this thread or we'll all go mad.

 

[Des 56]

It makes no sense labelled in those words
It seems to me someone had a case of labelling dyslexia,they meant one thing and wrote something with a different meaning

Either way,its a label I have yet to come across

 

[Swicade]

Seem to remember someone spouting on about a ruling Phil d mentions in the early 90's when i was on council house refurbs.

 

[Guest55]

Can someone lock this thread or we'll all go mad.

That moment passed loooong ago lol.

 

[Plonker 3]

This is actually advertised on a wholesalers website. Not something I have seen somewhere or found randomly on a search.

 

[Guest55]

Now if the socket said for "vacuums only" we could give them as valentine gifts.

Snigger.

 

[snowhead]

This is actually advertised on a wholesalers website. Not something I have seen somewhere or found randomly on a search.

Name and shame.
Was this found whilst you're looking for a camping adapter?

 

[sparks1973]

Have a socket engraved with this?

outside of an earth free zone?..

 

[Plonker 3]

Name and shame.
Was this found whilst you're looking for a camping adapter?

Yes it was lol.

 

[malcolmsanford]

It's a throw back to the 16th edition where the only sockets that needed RCD protection were for ones supplying equipment for outside use. Also notice that is is an unswitched one, the thought process behind that was that if you were coming back into the house there may have been a chance you were wet, had wet shoes etc and they didn't want you switching a socket, with the arc factor on the switch ...........hey this was the 16th were you told to bond everything that was remotely metal!!!

I reckon that must be a collectors piece because I only ever used them once or twice, and they sort of died a death

 

[Guest111]

It's a throw back to the 16th edition where the only sockets that needed RCD protection were for ones supplying equipment for outside use. Also notice that is is an unswitched one, the thought process behind that was that if you were coming back into the house there may have been a chance you were wet, had wet shoes etc and they didn't want you switching a socket, with the arc factor on the switch ...........hey this was the 16th were you told to bond everything that was remotely metal!!!

I reckon that must be a collectors piece because I only ever used them once or twice, and they sort of died a death

Glad you remembered that,knew it was from somewhere in my past just couldnt remember if it was in the regs or just one of the weird customer specials I,d come across in my past,like one L A job where everything had to be crabtree,job was so big they caused a shortage of crabtree metalclad fcu,s for about a fortnight lol.