question - is there such thing as a double sided electric outlet box? [View all]

Here I go again messing with electrical stuff. old ranch (real ranch, not necessarily the architectural style LOL) house slapped together over 100+ years. have a bedroom wall with a normal 2 receptacle outlet (whatever the proper terms are - the thingy where you could plug two lights or whatever into) that wall is old tongue and groove approximately 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick, then I assume 2x2 studs, then on the other side is some 1/4 inch plywood. no insulation or anything in there other than whatever the mice may have dragged in. on the plywood side the box sticks out maybe another 1/2 inch into a space that used to have an upright freezer and a refrigerator housed in it. the outlet for the old freezer and the current refrigerator is on a side wall of this space not on the circuit I am looking at.

what I really want is a double sided box and to have two receptacles on the both the bedroom and kitchen side of that wall. is that possible? I am pretty sure the box that is there now is entered from the top and is the end of that line/circuit, if that matters.

if there is no way to have a back to back box I can do an external mount shallow box, that isn't huge deal, but thought I would ask.

I don't know the size of the wire going in but we had that redone in more or less modern times so it should be newer than the paper wrapped two wire crap in the living room.

also I am completely incapable of speaking or comprehending electricity. watts and volts and that crap do not compute in my brain. wire gauge I can deal with. but don't waste time with voltage or amps or whatever, and even code other than logical safety, it isn't really relevant out here. (see comment about other wiring in this house LOL)

this would be for using a stand mixer occasionally and a stand alone ice maker. maybe a light of some sort eventually.


this is the kitchen side. as you can see it is all pretty ugly so looks don't really matter at this point. it will be out of view behind the ice maker anyway. eventually we might face that wall with something prettier but not high priority now.