Annoying situation. My house has locations for 2 wall lights with
architrave boxes for the wiring.

We bought 2 wall lights and annoyingly the the back plate (strip with
turned up ends) is shorter so I can only use one hole. With the stiffness
of the cable, it is difficult to get the wall light flat against the wall.

Have I missed a trick?

On 12 May 2021 at 20:24:32 BST, "JohnP" wrote:

Annoying situation. My house has locations for 2 wall lights with
architrave boxes for the wiring.

We bought 2 wall lights and annoyingly the the back plate (strip with
turned up ends) is shorter so I can only use one hole. With the stiffness
of the cable, it is difficult to get the wall light flat against the wall.

Have I missed a trick?

You could make some adapter plates to screw inside the architrave box with new
holes for self-tappers where you want them (and hole for the cable!).
Something like 2mm aluminium or 1.2mm stainless should work.

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Roger Hayter

Roger Hayter wrote in
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On 12 May 2021 at 20:24:32 BST, "JohnP" wrote:

Annoying situation. My house has locations for 2 wall lights with
architrave boxes for the wiring.

We bought 2 wall lights and annoyingly the the back plate (strip with
turned up ends) is shorter so I can only use one hole. With the
stiffness of the cable, it is difficult to get the wall light flat
against the wall.

Have I missed a trick?

You could make some adapter plates to screw inside the architrave box
with new holes for self-tappers where you want them (and hole for the
cable!). Something like 2mm aluminium or 1.2mm stainless should work.


That would be ideal - the architrave box is well behind the plaserboard.
Trouble is we have a decorator in and he is probably going to paint that
wall today! (Too old for paper stripping!)

On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 8:24:35 PM UTC+1, JohnP wrote:
Annoying situation. My house has locations for 2 wall lights with
architrave boxes for the wiring.

We bought 2 wall lights and annoyingly the the back plate (strip with
turned up ends) is shorter so I can only use one hole. With the stiffness
of the cable, it is difficult to get the wall light flat against the wall.

Have I missed a trick?

Extend the backplate/strip with a piece of similar thickness steel strip by pop riveting it onto to the back then drill a hole suitably spaced about 58mm between centres should do it and a bit of a sloppy hole 4mm+ should give you a bit of waggle room.

Richard