Are Your Switches And Sockets Really Tough... | Gather

Do you have a busy household? Are you forever hoovering up after your kids, if so you will know how easy it is to bang your Hoover in to your power sockets and crack them or mark them. Indeed whilst white plastic sockets are the choice of the majority of home owners, they can mark easily and be prone to showing scratches, and in particular they crack easily when hit hard with a Hoover or furniture and the plastic case can also crack if the screws are over tightened.

This means that they are not ideal for use in high traffic areas such as a staffroom kitchen or a busy home household. So if you want to replace your sockets with something a little more durable then why not consider switching to stainless steel power sockets instead?

Firstly to dispel one big myth, you are no more likely to be electrocuted by a stainless steel power socket than you are a plastic one provided that your electricity supply is fitted with a Residual Current Device (RCD), which will cut the power in milliseconds in the event of an Earth leakage problem.

Secondly whilst they can get scratched by a ring, they will not do so any more than a plastic socket, indeed minor scratches can be polished out of stainless steel, whereas you will not be able to do this with plastic ones

Also whilst in general this means that whilst white plastic sockets are cheap to replace, it can be time consuming and expensive to get an electrician to replace one.

Stainless steel by its name and nature is highly resistant to staining and any felt tip, pen or crayon marks should not stain the socket permanently and even the toughest of marks should come off with a solvent cleaner unlike white plastic, which can be permanently marked by pen.

Also by opting for stainless steel light switches as well as sockets, every room that you put them in will have a ?quality? feel to it, and they will become a feature of the room and not just a functional switch.

Stainless steel light switches are a particularly good idea to fit in high traffic areas as they are very hard to mark and can easily be wiped clean with a metal polishing cloth.

Whilst you can source them from your local Do It Yourself (DIY) store, you may well find them cheaper to purchase from an online electrical specialist.

The Electrical Counter supply a wide range of electrical wholesale products in the UK including top quality switches and sockets such as Nexus plug sockets and Nexus metal sockets.

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