Planning sockets and burn sites

  • Erstellt am 2020-09-29 14:02:30

Ybias78

2020-10-13 07:55:09
  • #1


Now the only question is whether I should have 6-8 sockets installed by the TV at approx. €100 or rather buy a good power strip for €40. Keep in mind that over time you might also move the furniture. You don’t take the sockets with you. That’s why in my eyes the power strip wins.

I’m with you on the network connection...
 

ypg

2020-10-13 09:39:02
  • #2

Power strip! However, I wouldn't install just one socket.
 

Mycraft

2020-10-13 09:52:58
  • #3
With sockets in the walls, you have more options than with power strips, and rearranging the furniture is not a problem either. Experience shows that a TV and media center are never moved, so rearranging usually only concerns lamps and mobile devices that require power. Everything else can be taken into account beforehand, and it is also perfectly possible to manage in the house without any power strips; you just have to plan smartly in advance and draw on past insights. But it is up to each individual to choose the path they prefer.
 

nordanney

2020-10-13 10:00:24
  • #4

That's why there are enough power outlets in plenty of other places too.
But the TV stays in the same spot 99% of the time, so it's rather relaxed. For example, I don't feel like having power strips everywhere. I don't build for that. But as always, it's a matter of personal preferences and one's own budget.
 

Golfi90

2020-10-13 11:31:50
  • #5
When the time has come that I have to use a power strip unplanned in a new building, my planning has failed...
 

Mycraft

2020-10-13 13:12:45
  • #6
Not meant to be rude but you are somehow a few decades too late. Not only with the sockets, surface-mounted light switches, or the belt winder etc. As Golfi90 wrote. If I have to rely on multiple sockets, then the planning has failed and possibly there were none at all but only the obligatory junction box with a switch and three sockets per room.

But those are quantities and specifications from over 30 years ago. Long outdated. Nevertheless, this is what is still offered to the builder as the minimum equipment (surface-mounted, however, if at all, only in the utility room or garage or something like that) and if you don't keep up with that, then that's just how it is.

In my opinion, the electrical installation is still treated stepmotherly and most simply rely on the fact that the "standard" already includes enough. No, unfortunately that is not the case and you have to pay extra here and there. Unfortunately, much longer is often discussed about the tile shape and color or the look of the door handles than about the number of sockets and lights.
 

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