Hello All

I've Just had my kitchen drylined, the old backboxes were left in situe
recessed into a solid wall. I now need massive screws to fix my new
flush fitting nickel black socket and light switch faceplates to the
backboxes. My Plasterer assured me I could get them when I bought up
the issue with him but so far cannot find any the right length or
colour. I'm looking at approximately 3 - 3.5 inch in length.
Can anyone suggest where I could get these from, or failing that come
up with an alternative solution to fix the faceplate. I cannot change
the old backbox.

Thanks in advance!

Richard

wrote:

I've Just had my kitchen drylined, the old backboxes were left in situe
recessed into a solid wall. I now need massive screws to fix my new
flush fitting nickel black socket and light switch faceplates to the
backboxes. My Plasterer assured me I could get them when I bought up
the issue with him but so far cannot find any the right length or
colour. I'm looking at approximately 3 - 3.5 inch in length.
Can anyone suggest where I could get these from, or failing that come
up with an alternative solution to fix the faceplate. I cannot change
the old backbox.


http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Electrical/Accessories/d190/sd2620
Bottom of page.


--
Grunff

Hows that for service!

Cheers Grunff, much appreciated.

Richard

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wrote:

I've Just had my kitchen drylined, the old backboxes were left in situe
recessed into a solid wall. I now need massive screws to fix my new
flush fitting nickel black socket and light switch faceplates to the
backboxes. My Plasterer assured me I could get them when I bought up
the issue with him but so far cannot find any the right length or
colour. I'm looking at approximately 3 - 3.5 inch in length.
Can anyone suggest where I could get these from, or failing that come
up with an alternative solution to fix the faceplate. I cannot change
the old backbox.


http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Electrical/Accessories/d190/sd2620
Bottom of page.


The longest ones there are 75mm or just under 3", which seem a little too
small. With that amount of depth, could you not mount a new box on top of
the old, screwing through the old into the wall?


--
Bob Mannix
(anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:27:53 UTC, wrote:

I've Just had my kitchen drylined, the old backboxes were left in situe
recessed into a solid wall. I now need massive screws to fix my new
flush fitting nickel black socket and light switch faceplates to the
backboxes. My Plasterer assured me I could get them when I bought up
the issue with him but so far cannot find any the right length or
colour. I'm looking at approximately 3 - 3.5 inch in length.
Can anyone suggest where I could get these from, or failing that come
up with an alternative solution to fix the faceplate. I cannot change
the old backbox.

See:

http://www.cpc.co.uk

Part number PL06421. These are 70mm, which seems to be the longest they
do.

Two caveats:

1) a large area of the 'side' of the inside is no longer inside an
enclosure. Not sure what the regs say about this and I've lost my copy
during recent extensive decorating!

2) How old are the back boxes? Really old ones used BA threads...if in
doubt get some 'new' normal screws and see if they fit. If so, the CPC
ones should too.

--
Bob Eager
begin a new life...dump Windows!

I cannot change the old backbox.

There's no can't about it. It is not acceptable to have such a large gap.
You must put new backboxes in, closer to the new surface. It isn't that
difficult to do. The gap is so large that the old ones can stay buried
beneath.

Christian.

Christian McArdle wrote:
I cannot change the old backbox.


There's no can't about it. It is not acceptable to have such a large gap.
You must put new backboxes in, closer to the new surface. It isn't that
difficult to do. The gap is so large that the old ones can stay buried
beneath.

I'm about to leave a small gap, as changing from a painted wall to
a tiled one. So what is an acceptable gap? Less than finger width?

Ben

"Ben Blaukopf" wrote
| Christian McArdle wrote:
| I cannot change the old backbox.
| There's no can't about it. It is not acceptable to have such a
| large gap.
| You must put new backboxes in, closer to the new surface. It
| isn't that
| difficult to do. The gap is so large that the old ones can
| stay buried beneath.
| I'm about to leave a small gap, as changing from a painted wall to
| a tiled one. So what is an acceptable gap? Less than finger width?

The connections must be enclosed in a non-flammable enclosure. A disparity
between box and faceplate filled with plaster/tile should be acceptable, but
a hole (possibly into the dry-lined void) is not.

Owain

Christian McArdle wrote:

You must put new backboxes in, closer to the new surface.

"Must"? Why, for goodness sake? What dire consequences will come to pass
if he just uses long bolts?

Bert
http://www.bertcoules.co.uk