RE: Trapdoors?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Great stuff,

Thanks all...

Paul G.



>From: John Hammond <john.hammond@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Trapdoors?
>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:38:09 +0100
>
>They are called cavity floor service units and you can get them through
>many electrical wholesalers.  They are made by Legrand , catalogue
number
>6890 06.  Price around GBP 45.00-50..00 depending on you negotiating
>skills.  Legrand telephone number for sales is 01582 676768 if you have
>problems.
>
>regards
>John Hammond
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	nick.broughton@xxxxxxx
>[SMTP:nick.broughton@xxxxxxx]
>Sent:	04 August 2000 13:58
>To:	'ukha.d'
>Subject:	RE: [ukha_d] Trapdoors?
>
>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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