Hmm, apparently before I bought my current house, they installed the laminate 'hardwood' floor and used cheap molding and quarter round. The rest of the house has some higher end moulding. I never noticed until now.

A bit of history: The earliest duplex receptacles were installed in the baseboard, dictating their horizontal orientation and also their original name, "baseboard outlets." Vertical mounting became popular with the advent of drywall, making them easy to attach to a wall stud.

Great history lesson thanks! [emoji106]

 

 

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It is here. I believe vertical mounting is more common nationwide. However, from an apartment when I lived downtown Chicago 20 years ago thru 4 suburban houses since then - all were horizontally mounted.

When I look around my home and all the things plugged into the outlets. It would be very hard to have the same devices on the wall and wouldn't look funny.

When I look around my home and all the things plugged into the outlets. It would be very hard to have the same devices on the wall and wouldn't look funny.

The real reason most hospitals (and many recording studios) have the ground on top: less likely to lose power if someone steps on the powercord.

When I look around my home and all the things plugged into the outlets. It would be very hard to have the same devices on the wall and wouldn't look funny.

The real reason most hospitals (and many recording studios) have the ground on top: less likely to lose power if someone steps on the powercord.

Aha! That makes sense. Thanks!

PS, anyone know where the OP is? I think we scared him away [emoji23]

 

 

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Edited January 11, 20187 yr by TrojanHorse

What do you mean? [emoji13]

 

LOL [emoji23] Those look like the Arrow / Cooper branded outlets. Been a while since I seen those. [emoji106][emoji13]

 

 

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When I built my house, I had outlets installed above the mantels of the fireplaces.  They installed them nicely only about an inch above the top of the mantel (as expected).  However, I didn't think about the fact that now you can't plug a lamplinc in.  So I had to flip them upside down.  So that is why I have two outlets with the ground up in my house.  I probably should have had them installed sidways.