Provide Amble Wallplugs

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 32

Provide Amble Wallplugs

For Convenience and Economy oo rigid economy should not be practised in providing wall or floor plugs. A sufficient number adds immensely to the convenience of 2 home, and the far-seeing builder or architect should realise that the matter is one of importance in catering for the needs of changing tenants. He may not know how the furniture of each particular tenant will be arranged, but once having installed a goodly supply of points, he need give the matter no further thought. This is particularly true of bedroom furniture. Some women like wallbrackets beside a dressing-table, others prefer a drop pendant; but to instal either in a permanent way means that the position of the particular piece of furniture has to remain permanent too, because it is dependent for light upon a particular fixture. Particularly desirable is an under-the-table outlet jin the dining-room. Placed in the middle of the floor and connected by a-cord that comes through a tiny hole in the rug, such an outlet may be designed to carry several appliances at once. A triple outlet is available which can be screwed on to the table. A portable double or triple outlet which has recently come on to the market, when set beside the hostess, offers a really convenient and attractive means of cooking at the table. In this connection, however, it is necessary to see that the amperage of the combined appliances in use at the same time, do not exceed the amperage of the plug capacity, or blown fuses will result.

N new houses outlets are recommended every twelve feet in the livingroom base-board, and every fifteen feet in other rooms. If there is a space in the bedroom between do : of about five feet in width, it makes a delightful space for a writing or sewing table, so that an opportunity for light there becomes eminently desirable. At a pantry or entry, a plug should be provided for an electric refrigerator, and the electric iron outlet is one that would well repay a little more thought than it generally receives. It should be so placed that as one stands before the board, facing the light, the cord comes from the right-hand side, so that the nécessary light is available without having to tangle oneself up in the cord. An outlet on the veranda enables a meal to be cooked at the table, or tea made out of doors, or the ear to be electrically cleaned with ease. Lastly, where outlets are placed for irons, or other appliances, see that they are placed about waist-high to avoid the fatigue of stooping each time to: connect or disconnect.