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Texas, That's almost exactly what happens at my house. There are 2 switch/receptacle combinations in my house, actually a duplex and a switch in a two gang box, the one in the bathroom gets used to vacuum the hallway because it's convenient, and one other one in a room I built, that gets used for all kinds of temporary uses exactly because it is not behind anything. (I don't even have to bend over ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/wink.gif)
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Vacuum? Night light? I would never have considered that! I will have to keep that in mind the next time I do a layout.
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@kale: sounds like a good idea!
Most Austrian designs I have seen include that as a standard, either a double gang box with switch and receptacle or a single receptacle 1' above the floor, below the switch.
There are even switch+receptacle combos that fit a single gang box, but they cost about three times as much as the same thing for a double gang box...
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one possible remedy would be to invent single gang switch plates that take a toggle switch and single NEMA 5-15 receptacle along with matching devices This one's a 5-20, but 5-15s are available as well: ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/forum/el/combdev.jpg)
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one possible remedy would be to invent single gang switch plates that take a toggle switch and single NEMA 5-15 receptacle along with matching devices ... and always install one of those at each door. My old house is wired that way (with a duplex and switch) in the two douwnstairs siderooms (one converted into a bathroom), and one in the big room upstairs, that one being the only recepticle upstairs.
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Kale:
I have put those devices in all over the place, in one case 3 went into a friends small 2 bedroom apt just to plug in odd things like a pedistal fan and cell phone charger.. and like you said You dont have to bend down to plug them things in!!
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That's a great idea, but it'll only work where the neutral is in the switchbox, not as when one 14/2 is run as a switch leg.
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That's if you're using the switch half for a reomte light fixture/recpt. that is.
[This message has been edited by mxslick (edited 04-23-2006).]
Stupid should be painful.
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That's true for upgrading, but if you're doing new work you just have to run a neutral to the box.
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UL 1310, the UL safety standard for class 2 power units ("wall warts"), requires the output cord to be 6 ft minimum. Lamp cords, thingamajobers, outlet spacing...sometimes it all ties together ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/smile.gif)
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Some thought needs to be given to placement of receptacles at points of entry, exit, stair-heads etc., as trailing leads may prove a trip hazard. I just changed an outlet position at a landing, to take it away from the top of a stair, after realising a vacuum cord would give a nice tripwire just where you don't want to take a tumble.
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