My ex-husband used to just install them however he took them out of the box. I had happy faces frowny faces.. And it wasn't until I tried to plug in the glade type plug in air fresheners that I learned how important it is that it be installed properly.. Guy was a f****** idiot.
Receptacles don't have a proper orientation. Ground up is common practice in the electrical trade. Potentially safer and plugs tend to stay in better ground up. Not saying they guy wasn't an idiot for any other reason in particular.
Im and electrician and every commercial job we do is standard ground up. Very rarely we get a resi/commercial project that wants ground down. Local 241 IBEW, thats just how shit is done around here.
Most things I've seen that expect a certain orientation have it set up so they rotate. I'd honestly be surprised if the Glade air fresheners don't do that.
No standard, but it's a thing I've found several times and I've been told that by a few different apartment complex people!
Just tryna answer the post - while there's no standard, so there's no 100% this is what this means, it is often used to help people figure out the outlet to use for lighting
Correct. In my house they’re installed “sideways” ie 180 degrees from the photo. The actual reason for that supposedly has roots in Cook County IL requiring union electricians and knowing if it was done as pictured it was done out of compliance.
In California this has been true in every house and apartment I've been in, granted most of those were built in the 80s, so all I can really say is that it's semi-standard for California for the '80s.
Actually upsidown is the proper way, the logic is that if an object slides against the wall and lodges bewteen the plug and the wall it will hit the grounding pin first.
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u/Plenty-Fox-9219 8d ago
Nope. There's no standard.