When choosing sockets for installation in an apartment, house or office, the most important thing is to ensure that they are safe and convenient to use. At the same time, their exterior - appearance, whether the shape, color, materials of manufacture, are not so important, although often, high-quality electrical sockets are good from all sides.

Behind these two simple terms is safety and ease of use, there are a lot of characteristics that affect both these points, some directly and some indirectly. So, for example, ease of installation of the socket is not directly related to safety, but at the same time, the more complicated and inconvenient the process of connecting the mechanism, the greater the likelihood of an error, which can cause a lot of disturbances in the socket.

Any wiring accessories, including sockets and switches, have a number of common indicators - characteristics that you can see on the price tag, package, in the product description. It would seem that there is difficult, it is enough to choose models of sockets with the desired characteristics and the minimum price - to buy and install.

Unfortunately, these indicators do not fully reflect the real state of affairs. Often the sockets may be identical in characteristics, but completely different in consumer qualities. They may differ significantly in quality and materials of manufacture, production technology, applied engineering solutions and much more.

Therefore, in order to choose the right sockets for installation in an apartment or house, they should be viewed from two sides:

- First of all, check according to the specified characteristics whether this socket is suitable for your operating conditions

- Then, examine it firsthand, turn it in your hands, test it.

In general, such a simple technique will allow you to almost accurately choose the best socket for yourself from the crowd, without the need to study the detailed specifications of all models or reviews on the Internet.

It is important to remember that the high price is not always an indicator of a quality socket, often the markup is done simply for an unusual appearance or material of manufacture, and the socket mechanism leaves much to be desired. But at the same time, you must understand that good sockets cannot cost very cheap.