Single To Double Socket Converter (1 Gang To 2 Gang)

Easy to install, no problem with the quality of the product, being lazy meant that I paid well over the odds for this socket but it saved me leaving my armchair!Overall a good product to solve a problem with a single socket being available and me needing a double to plug my washing machine and a new Insinkerator waste disposal unit, no need to get an electrician as it is simple to fit as long as you can wire a plug up!

Perfect to convert the single (switch less) sockets in our house into double sockets without the Electrician fees.Be sure to isolate the power before you start, but after that it’s easy enough to wire up! The screws of the faceplate are a little fiddly because they seem to move around a bit making it hard to be sure they’re straight. The screw covers are a nice touch, and whilst the new faceplates are a little thicker than the originals, they’re not too intrusive, but worth bearing in mind if you have furniture nearby.In summary, they’re that good I’ve just ordered more!

Works well and is easy to fit but be aware it sticks out alot more than a normal socket

Received the product the next day with prime. Product feel is generally good and was easy enough to install (no instructions provided) .The terminal screws can be difficult to access and a 'thin' screw driver is required to loosen our tighten. The only other tricky part was when tightening the supplied screws to the back plate, I could feel it stiffening when there was still a few mm to go and then a snap of breaking plastic. A small white piece of plastic popped out one of the screw holes. I switched back to the original screws which were shorter by a couple of mm and then tightened using small turns of the screwdriver near the end. Although both ends of the socket are nicely flushed with the wall, there is about a mm gap in the middle. I prefer to leave it as is rather than tighten the screws and risk breaking something else.Btw when I first inserted a plug, the earth pin wouldn't go in fully so the plug would feel loose. It turns out that you need to hit it firmly with your palm to force it in. For this reason I would only use this socket where you plug something in once and then never touch it again e g. TV, etc.Early days but the product seems to be doing fine.

I've been wanting to convert the single socket on my landing for a long time so that I am able to leave my night-light installed and be able to vacuum without having to juggle plugs. I had researched many brands of similar items and deemed this to be the best. Indeed, it is well made and should be easy to fit. A week or so after it arrived I set to work removing the old single socket, inserting the wires into the new double socket (the connections for which were annoyingly the mirror image of my original so I had to carefully bend the thick wires but that's just one of those things) and then went to screw it back into the wall. It seemed quite difficult to push back. I ensured the wires weren't being trapped and lined everything up. The left hand side found a natural position flush against the wall. The right hand side was sticking out several millimetres.I tried again. Same result.We have a stud partition wall and, looking at our backbox when open, I noticed that the right hand screw/grip fixture sat further to the front than the other side just because of its construction so I assumed that the backbox construction was to blame. It worked electrically and was kind of stable but you had to be very careful when taking things out of the socket (and I guess that dust ingress would be an issue).A couple of weeks later I bought a new backbox in town with a different, more symmetrical design.I have just got around to fitting the new backbox and installing the socket once again. I was confident that it would be ok this time as they seemed to sit well together when held up against each other out-of-situ (but read on - there's something I hadn't noticed).Installation was simpler this time - no wires to cross and the new backbox (only a pound) went in easily but upon screwing the socket in, I had the same result as before. The thing won't lay flat. I realised that if it was flush on the left it would stick out on the right. If it was flush on the right it would stick out on the left. Alternatively, the whole thing could 'hover' about 1mm from the wall all around. Then I realised the problem - the backboxes for stud walls have a small thin lip around them which push onto the wall whilst being gripped from behind by 'wings' when you tighten the screws. This double socket will sit AGAINST the lip of the single backbox and hence will protrude from the wall beyond the backbox's lip (or see saw if angled). See the attached photo of the socket sitting against the backbox out-of-situ.I then went to refit my original socket but I found two problems along the way: I had broken the thread of the new backbox on one side by trying to tighten the double socket to the wall on that side (luckily the old backbox was simple to re-fit) and I appeared to have damaged my plasterboard as well at some point in the exercise. This was fixed with a bit of electrical tape to hold the plasterboard back where it should be so that it can be gripped by the original backbox.The old socket is now back in place and the only visible evidence of my failed task is the damaged paint below the socket (it flaked away when I removed the original socket as the decorator clearly got too close).One day when we have some other electrical work done, I will get an electrician to fit a proper double socket (he can utilise the damaged bit of plasterboard to make the hole bigger) - increasing the size of the hole in the plasterboard is a disaster waiting to happen if I were to try it myself!As for now, I'll juggle my night-light and vacuum cleaner plugs and this converter will be one of those purchases that I've wasted my money on and wish I hadn't bothered with. I'm sure it's great if you have brick walls with metal backboxes - just not if you have stud walls.

Easy to fit. Doesn't protude too much from wall. Reasonably priced.

This Single To Double Socket Converter is just what I needed for my hallway both sockets work independently and switch controlled. you will need to remove the old single facepplate and use the existing wires to wire this one, (Make sure you know what you are doing) this converter does use the old backplate so no need to change anything except the face plate. The only issue coulkd be it does stick out from the wall by about an inch but for me this compromise is worth it. all in all a good prodcut that saves mess and gives me another socket.

I wanted to convert a single socket to a double but have neither the time or inclination to chisel out the wall and put a larger box in. Extensions and splitter blocks just look clunky. This socket is well made, cleverly designed and really easy to fit. It's quite deep but not stupidly so. The whole job took about 10 mins but I was lucky that the wiring needed no work at all, just remove the old and replace with the new. Not something that usually happens in my Victorian house of horrors.