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the most annoying thing i've come across here is where painters paint right over flush fitting phone sockets!
They have a little flap on the front but if you paint it it won't lift up when you push a plug in!
I've seen BS1363 sockets painted too.
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I saw a house once where somebody painted an entire bedroom in a kind of magenta color.
And I do mean everything. They painted right over the radiator and its valves, the door knobs, the window frames and handles, and every switch and socket in the room!
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When I moved into my present flat I had to clean the sockets from paint to insert the plug. The painters had covered the earth pins with so much paint you just couldn't get the plug in.
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At that point it's probably just easier to replace the sockets. More expensive, yeah...but at least you don't have sockets where water-based paint has leaked inside the sockets and rusted the contacts out.
That's what happened with the old two-pin sockets in my flat. They had so many coats of paint (probably 50 years worth) that in some cases you couldn't shove a plug in. If you could shove iti in, it would not make contact in some cases. And when I went to remove them, I noticed the housings were cracked and came out in pieces!!!
Fortunately the system is grounded (through the metal sheathing on the cables) and I was able to replace them all with three-pin sockets. Otherwise I would have had to replace them with new 2-pin sockets....yup...they're still made for replacement use.
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At least you can get replacable fronts for some of them nowadays to match your decor. It discourages people from painting!
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>It discourages people from painting!
It's not the D-I-Ys who are the problem, it's the tradespeople in this case!
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