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please help me out here my daughter is insisting that the TV in the scene with Dougie/Cooper is not plugged in.. I keep telling her that it's probably plugged in behind the tv but my daughter made me go around the house with her to show me that electrical sockets are never that close together .. I told her that every home/apartment might be different ..
but she has been driving me nuts with this .. does anyone here have electrical sockets close together.. please just humor me because I'm ready to jump in a socket myself if she doesn't get off this ..
We don't see where the tv is in relation to the socket Coop sticks a fork into, AFAICR. For all I know, the socket he uses is the one nearest him, and the tv is on the other side of the room.
Over here in the UK, you can have sockets wherever you please. My house has 4 behind the tv area and loads more scattered around the room. Wiring regs prohibit them in a bathroom unless it's a specially insulated shaver socket, and no closer than 2 metres to a wet area but that's about it.
*sigh* 1920's houses are not over endowed with electrical sockets, so we have multiblock extensions lurking behind any object.
We have got some sockets close together, but that has involved hacking a channel into plaster etc etc - so is the time consuming option.
Just checked with my other half - who does all electric stuff as I'm far too slapdash - and he doesn't know of any reason for there being a minimum distance either...
A question about sockets: aren't shuttered sockets compulsory in new installation in the United States? A shuttered socket means you are not able to insert only one prong into the outlet, thus Cooper couldn't have electrocuted himself with just one fork handle and the Jones's house seems to be quite new. Here in Italy shuttered sockets are compulsory for new installations and I have found them also in the UK, where the earthing pin is the "key" to open the shutters (all UK plugs have an earthing pin, even if not required by a double insulated appliance).
Shuttered sockets are a required standard here in the UK, and as you rightly say, cannot be operated unless a prong is inserted into the Earth/Ground slot.
US stuff, I don't think they have shutters. Crazy Americans and their stone age wiring. 😉
We see the empty sockets are to the right of the TV/sideboard, but no reason there aren't more sockets to the left. There is more space on this side, and the TV cable does head off leftwards.
Well, in my recently built apartment, sockets in the kitchen are barely two feet apart. I don't think there's any regulation about it, and I just assumed the tv was plugged into a different socket.
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