A box with a relay in it somewhere else and a low voltage feed to a switch
for the relay?
Brian

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"Pete Zahut" wrote in message news
We live in a 1960s semi-detached dormer bungalow, the internal walls of
which seem to be made of something like an egg-box construction.

There's a 45A double pole switch for the shower mounted outside the
bathroom but whoever fitted it should have used a dry-lining box rather
than a metal back box. Presumably the reason they didn't, is that there
are no dry-lining boxes that have the lugs in the correct orientation for
this situation.

The metal back box that's there at the moment is a very deep one (don't
know if they're 45 or 50mm deep) but we can't get away with anything
shallower because of the two 10mm twin+earth cables and the depth of the
switch.

The problem is, the box is actually touching the plasterboard (or whatever
it is) at the other side of the wall, so there's no depth to be able to
plug and screw and fixings - which is why it needs a dry-lining box that
no one makes!

I've tried gluing the back box in but as soon as there is any movement of
the cables, which there obviously is when connecting the switch, the glue
can't hold and the box moves about again.

Any great ideas what to do? Photo he

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