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Default How to fit electrical back box if there is no back?!?

Steven Campbell spam@away wrote:
I was installing a twin socket in a brick wall and had cut /
chiselled out the brick ready for the back box.
As I was drilling the remainder of the brick to hold the back box,
the brick fell into the cavity so I'm now left with a hole with no
place to secure the back box!!
http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/a...sa1/socket.jpg
Any suggestions?


Is that an external wall?

However, I would try to get a piece of timber into the hole that is longer
than the horizontal bit of the hole and screw it to the wall and then screw
the backbox to the timber.

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Adam