RE: Trapdoors?

[nick.broughton@xxxxxxx]

The one under my desk is made/distributed by a company called Powerplan
systems limited, tel 01995 640884.

-----Original Message-----
From: paul.gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 August 2000 12:35
To: ukha.d
Cc: paul.gordon
Subject: [ukha_d] Trapdoors?


Does anyone know where I can buy one of those "trapdoor"
concealed
socket
fittings commonly seen in office buildings. - Where the sockets are
recessed
into the floor, and a trapdoor covers over the top of them, usually
with a
piece of matching carpet on top, so all that can be seen is a thin
"frame"
around the edge of the recess?

I need to get one of these for my living room!!

Explain:  I have a coffee table in the lounge, upon which lives my
Pronto,
and a DECT handset, both of which require mains power. Obviously I
don't
want to trail a lead over the lounge floor from a wall socket to the
table,
so as I have access to the area under the floor, (from the cellar,
where the
consumer unit is located...) I have taken a spur off the downstairs
ring
main, drilled a V.small hole (about 1cm) through the floor, cut a very
small
slit in the middle of the lounge carpet with a stanley knife, poked the
mains cable up through the lounge floor, and fitted a standard mains
socket
to it.

All this takes place immediately underneath the coffee table, which
conveniently has a hollow hidden section underneath, so it is all
totally
invisible. The mains socket is then screwed to the underside of the
table,
again in such a way that it cannot be seen. This has all been fine &
dandy
for a couple of years, but, I've just bought a flash new coffee table
for
which none of this will work:
- It is made entirely of glass - no screwing anything to this one!
- It is a very different shape, and has no obscure areas where wires or
sockets can be hidden.

Obviously, I cannot live without my Pronto on the coffee table, so I
still
want to retain a mains supply in the middle of the room. I also want to
make
sure that it looks neat, smart, and professional.

My only idea for this so far, is one of these recessed floor boxes.

Any suggestions?

Cheers.

Paul G.

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