I live in a flat that's part of a complex that used to be sheltered housing.
Because of the ages of people here, all the electrical sockets are about waist height, so that people don't need to bend down.
This is a problem in my bedroom, as the room is so designed that the only possible place to put the bed means that one of the two sockets would be right between my shoulder-blades. Having a bed-head would help, but when there's a plug in that socket - which there will be, as I like a bedside light - the bed-head would be so far from the wall as to be unsightly.
But my main concern is electrical fields. Sitting up in bed reading, the socket would be only inches from my head.
I 've written to ask my housing association if they could move this one socket down to floor level. In reply, the man in charge of maintenance said that moving the socket there would not solve 'my perceived worries about electrical fields', as he put it, because there'd still be a cable running from the blanked-off old socket to the new one.
But is this right? If the cable feeding the socket were approaching the socket from the top - running down the wall to it - that would indeed be the case, but I'd have thought that cables would run from floor level UP to the sockets. I've a feeling he's just trying to fob me off, because later in his letter he goes on about the expense of having the work done.
I want to fight this decision if I can, because even though I know fears about electrical fields close to one's brain aren't fully substantiated, I don't want to take the risk.
Knowing my housing association as I do, I know they'll do anything to put tenants off in order to save money, and that includes exaggerating the cost of doing a job, or even claiming the job is just impossible, and so I'd be very grateful for any facts I can muster to my own case, such as likely costs of moving this one socket about three feet, and whether it really is likely that the cable is running down the wall towards it rather than up to it.
I'll be most grateful for any advice I can get here.