Thinking of using those bevelled edge brick style tiles, 100 x 200mm.
I know they are all the rage but I think they look good and expensive.
Probably white with grey grout. I think the bevel is usually a good
few millimetres deep. Sockets are just a bit too small to totally fit
within the space of one tile, so I wont even try that.
If I fit the sockets over the tile edges, I'm sure the regs really
require the gap caused by the bevel under the socket faceplate to be
filled in. What is the usual approach here ?
I usually end up with the back boxes a bit back from the faceplate,
since you never know what the exact finished depth will be. What to
fill the under the sides of the faceplate with ?
Cheers,
Simon.

On Dec 17, 11:53*pm, sm_jamieson wrote:
Thinking of using those bevelled edge brick style tiles, 100 x 200mm.
I know they are all the rage but I think they look good and expensive.
Probably white with grey grout. I think the bevel is usually a good
few millimetres deep. Sockets are just a bit too small to totally fit
within the space of one tile, so I wont even try that.
If I fit the sockets over the tile edges, I'm sure the regs really
require the gap caused by the bevel under the socket faceplate to be
filled in. What is the usual approach here ?
I usually end up with the back boxes a bit back from the faceplate,
since you never know what the exact finished depth will be. What to
fill the under the sides of the faceplate with ?
Cheers,
Simon.

If you mean on the front of the tiles, grout. If you mean behind them,
nothing.


NT

On Dec 18, 4:24*am, Tabby wrote:
On Dec 17, 11:53*pm, sm_jamieson wrote:

Thinking of using those bevelled edge brick style tiles, 100 x 200mm.
I know they are all the rage but I think they look good and expensive.
Probably white with grey grout. I think the bevel is usually a good
few millimetres deep. Sockets are just a bit too small to totally fit
within the space of one tile, so I wont even try that.
If I fit the sockets over the tile edges, I'm sure the regs really
require the gap caused by the bevel under the socket faceplate to be
filled in. What is the usual approach here ?
I usually end up with the back boxes a bit back from the faceplate,
since you never know what the exact finished depth will be. What to
fill the under the sides of the faceplate with ?
Cheers,
Simon.

If you mean on the front of the tiles, grout. If you mean behind them,
nothing.

NT

I mean the front of the tiles. I'll just clarify in case it was not
clear.
I mean if you fix a socket faceplate such that a join between two
bevel edged tiles is under one edge of the faceplate and the back box
is set back a little way, there will be a triangular recess under the
faceplate where you could push in a metal wire, meat skewer etc. And
just possibly touch a live part (a fixing screw etc).
Is just shoving a load of grout or some silicone into this hole
acceptable ?
Although I guess the best idea is to set the backbox at exactly the
correct depth so there is no gapi, i.e. not permanently fix it until
the second fix.
Simon.

In article
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sm_jamieson wrote:
I mean if you fix a socket faceplate such that a join between two
bevel edged tiles is under one edge of the faceplate and the back box
is set back a little way, there will be a triangular recess under the
faceplate where you could push in a metal wire, meat skewer etc. And
just possibly touch a live part (a fixing screw etc).
Is just shoving a load of grout or some silicone into this hole
acceptable ?

You'll get this to a lesser extend where any socket bridges tiles. Just
grout it in the normal way

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On Dec 18, 9:46*am, sm_jamieson wrote:
On Dec 18, 4:24*am, Tabby wrote:





On Dec 17, 11:53*pm, sm_jamieson wrote:

Thinking of using those bevelled edge brick style tiles, 100 x 200mm.
I know they are all the rage but I think they look good and expensive..
Probably white with grey grout. I think the bevel is usually a good
few millimetres deep. Sockets are just a bit too small to totally fit
within the space of one tile, so I wont even try that.
If I fit the sockets over the tile edges, I'm sure the regs really
require the gap caused by the bevel under the socket faceplate to be
filled in. What is the usual approach here ?
I usually end up with the back boxes a bit back from the faceplate,
since you never know what the exact finished depth will be. What to
fill the under the sides of the faceplate with ?
Cheers,
Simon.

If you mean on the front of the tiles, grout. If you mean behind them,
nothing.

NT

I mean the front of the tiles. I'll just clarify in case it was not
clear.
I mean if you fix a socket faceplate such that a join between two
bevel edged tiles is under one edge of the faceplate and the back box
is set back a little way, there will be a triangular recess under the
faceplate where you could push in a metal wire, meat skewer etc. And
just possibly touch a live part (a fixing screw etc).
Is just shoving a load of grout or some silicone into this hole
acceptable ?
Although I guess the best idea is to set the backbox at exactly the
correct depth so there is no gapi, i.e. not permanently fix it until
the second fix.
Simon.- Hide quoted text -

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Just fill the gap with grout.

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Adam