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Thais And Their Plug Sockets November 8, 2007

Posted by Martin in : Rants, Thailand , trackback

Why do Thai builders fail to understand that apartments cannot work with just one plug socket in each room?

This week we added at least 10 additional sockets to our new place and I've realized now that Thais and farangs don't see eye to eye when it comes to living efficiently.  

Every Thai person I've spoken to claims that appliances should be unplugged unless they're in use.  Two plug sockets therefore in the kitchen is perfectly sufficient in their opinion .. one for the fridge, one for the one appliance that's going to be used.  

My philoposhy, which I believe's shared with the rest of the western world is; the more sockets the better.  There should never be a time where a person must unplug one appliance in order to use another, nor should there be any time where a person shouls have to pass a wire around a room because there's simply no socket nearby.  

We've had nearly all the maintenance work completed on the apartment now so I'll upload some photos of it shortly. 

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