Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

• bollybing@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A lot of dodgey wiring.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do they have the wiring on the outside of the houses so it’s easier to repair.
    I’ve heard in UK they tend to do such things.

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    • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, it’s usually buried in the wall behind the plasterboard. Although it’s possible to use surface trunking.Image

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It was a joke on UK putting water pipes on the outside of their houses.

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In our defence, most of that is legacy from the post war rebuild (copper shortages etc). The modern regs are comparable or better than a lot of places.

    There’s enough of the dodgy stuff around that it needs to be accounted for, but it’s being phased out as new stuff it built or renovated.

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• INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The many other places is the US

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  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And Japan, and Canada, and Mexico, and the majority of South America, and a handful of countries in Africa and the Middle East.

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• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was mainly referring to almost all of the American continent(s), lots of Africa, China and a few other places too. I didn’t think I’d mentioned Europe.

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