I’m visiting Norway, and see many outlets way up high. Some are mid wall , some are down to the bottom…but many up high. Saw someike this since the airport. Any idea why they do this?
I’m visiting Norway, and see many outlets way up high. Some are mid wall , some are down to the bottom…but many up high. Saw someike this since the airport. Any idea why they do this?
As several people have mentioned, it’s for lights. The reason is, in Norway any electrical work needs to be done or certified by a licensed electrician. Since light fixtures are a fairly commonly replaced item, the current trend is for ceiling mount points to come with a nearby electrical plug so you can switch out a light fixture without shelling out for an electrician. These power outlets are connected to a switch elsewhere so you can flick the lights on and off like normal.
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I’m a general contractor and I hate that I can’t do even the most basic electrical installations. Something like connecting the light for bathroom mirror. I could do it in two minutes for no extra cost to the customer, but now I need to call in a sparky instead and have them charge the customer 60 euros for doing the exact same thing I would have done. I simply just can’t risk it because if something happens the insurance wont cover any of it and it’s all on me. Makes me feel so stupid to tell the customer that I can’t do something this basic.
Yeah, I’ve found Norwegian bureaucracy to be… Something.
Reminds me of the too-powerful unions in Chicago. You can’t even change a lightbulb or plug in a computer on the convention center floor. You have to wait for an electrician.
I’m pro-Union, but within reason. When they get out of control (looking at you, cops) they need to be cut back. Like kudzu.
This rule exists in Germany as well but we just ignore it. Nothing easier than hanging up a new lamp.
Germans can BREAK rules?! My worldview is shattered.
Must be the Norwegian blood I get from my mother.
Thanks for the answer! Yes indeed these come with light switch…but funny enough…the room lights are not connected to these… they have an extension going all the way down to the floor😂
Lol. Looks like somebody got lazy and took the easy way out
Electrical work in Sweden shall be done by an electrician as well, but we just have the plug on the ceiling, so it’s not as ugly (the base of the hanging lamp hides it).
Norway has so many inane rules. If they didn’t have oil, their country would have shut down decades ago.
As a relative newcomer, I shall decline to comment 😂
Live in Sweden, not true for pretty much all apartments I have lived in on the west coast. And it was quite a few because foreigner coming to Sweden and not buying a place to stay immediately means moving at least once a year. Not one had the lamp plug where the lamp was, all the plugs are at a nearby wall so you have to hang the cable over to the lamp.
Not saying what you say doesn’t exist, but to my experience it is not standard.
The newer apartments have different plugs though, like this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_for_Connection_of_Luminaires