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

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Mathew Newton wrote:
On Mar 10, 10:52*pm, Nick Leverton wrote:

All these herculeans are welcome to come round and dig us out some back
boxes, I've done two rooms of this brick so far and not looking forwards
to the rest !


You need to get yourself an SDS drill with chisel bit. It really is
the proverbial 'hot knife through butter' for this task...


Have got one, but I spend ages battering through an inclusion to get the
damn socket to sit level and then the brittle thingy goes and busts that
half of the brick away ...

Nick
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