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Plug socket

Posted by Karen McGregor, on
My home is ex council and had electric storage heaters removed in the 90s. Blanks were put on the walls where the electric cable had been. Can i make them into working plug sockets
Trevor Ellis

Trevor Ellis

Most probably not , the storage heaters were supplied with the economy 7 system , which means they were only supplied electricity at low rate hours . This is roughly between 1 am and 5am the heaters would have stored the heat for use in the day. It may be possible to reroute circuits from economy 7 fuse board to house hold fuse board , If circuits are safe and there are spare ways in household board.

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