Sure, there’s a lot of plug sockets there, but I don’t see a single plug in that image
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Five-bed home looks gorgeous on the outside - but inside there's a horrifying amount of NEMA 5-15 receptacles
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Five-bed home looks gorgeous on the outside - but inside there's a horrifying amount of BS 1363 receptacles.
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I prefer too many plugs over too few
It's far simpler to deactivate and drywall over a receptacle than to add a new one in. A moderately handy person can do it themselves.
In most places it's not code, or a great idea, to bury splices in the walls.
It's perfect
I'm an electrician, I'd happily live there.
Gotta wonder how many circuits are in each room if they all look like that though... panel must be loooooooong
Gotta wonder how many circuits are in each room
I'm an electrician
A very optimistic one, it seems. Because I'm willing to bet good on money on you not wanting to live there when you find out.
Or its like my house where my basement has a plug every 16" along the wall and the entire basement is on one 15 amp breaker.
Ah, I see the guy that wired your house also wired my apartment. Kitchen, living room, and bedroom all on 1 breaker with our tiny ass bathroom getting an entire breaker to itself. Who knows what the other 4 breakers are wired to, because every useful plug in the apartment is on one breaker.
You wanna check you don't have secret people living in your attic...
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It looks like they do all have a lot of plugs. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/interiors/a-house-for-sale-for-25m-is-covered-in-power-points-and-no-one-knows-why/news-story/628d6cc69c74ab98224b03f101ba2c97
Not sure England's code would even allow it, but maybe there are multiple circuits tied to a few plugs each, and each room shares the circuits in the same config. This I know would be a huge pain to wire, especially when it seems some may be added after the plaster.
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As long as everything is wired properly, and there's not too much going on on any individual circuit, that's an awesome setup for so many things. Imagine you're a streamer/YTer, OF girl, maybe musician with a big recording setup, etc. How nice is it to not need a shit ton of extension cords, power strips, splitters, etc, to plug in all of your camera chargers, lights, audio devices, other assorted devices required for such a setup. Even though I didn't film/stream when I was painting/crafting, I still needed so many power strips to plug in my lights, airbrush compressor, paint booth fans and lights, Dremel and other tool chargers, laptop, 3d printer and wash station, mini fridge, and other assorted items. I only have 2 outlets. So yeah.
Theater room, maybe? The receptacles on the ceiling and along the side walls could be for speakers. A Dolby Atmos setup has speakers on every wall, the floor, and the ceiling.
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Assuming that is a mixture of power, media, and data outlets, this would be heaven for me.
Maybe it was a Bitcoin operation going on. I can’t think of why else so many plugs would be needed.
Grow lamps?
For stuff like servers or mining rigs, it would probably be more efficient to have a few high amp outlets feeding power strips in racks.
Maybe they were just sick of the socket always being a tiny bit too far away to charge their phone while using it and went all in.
Yes. The layout of the lighting indicates that the room was used for some project rather than a regular living room.
Maybe they had a lot of fish tanks. Each tank takes at least 3 sockets. With water involved, it's also makes sense to have wall sockets instead of using extension cords on the floor.
Sound or streaming studio?
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Looks like the wall of plugs you'd see in a hospital room. Maybe this room was setup like this for someone with a medical condition that required a hospital bed and several machines that needed to be plugged in?
I think I read somewhere else this home was basically being used as a business and was full of PC's and desks and phones and such. Maybe like a call centre.
I had an architecture professor who studied design for aging in place, and this sort of thing was one of the things he advocated for. Aging and death are a part of life, and designing a room in the house to be able to support hospice care for a family member is a way to make a difficult experience more humane.
Grow room.
Or potentially a server (likely crypto) room
We escaping the Matrix woth this one.
Finally, a home with enough plugs for all my stuff.
I wish the picture was higher resolution: yeah there are way too many outlets, but there are several different shapes. I’m not familiar with what UK outlets look like, but could some of these be network and phone?
I’m especially curious about round outlets. The ones in the ceiling are obviously recessed lighting, but what about the ones in the walls at knee height?
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