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Totally flush fit sockets?

  • 21-12-2010 9:21pm
    #1
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭


    Was wonering if I'll be able to source single and double back boxes for fitting fully recessed/flush mounted sockets for power and data?

    - Is for TV Mounting points that won't be used right away and will prob have a picture hung over them etc


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  • #2
    paddy147
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    Raiser wrote: »
    Was wonering if I'll be able to source single and double back boxes for fitting fully recessed/flush mounted sockets for power and data?

    - Is for TV Mounting points that won't be used right away and will prob have a picture hung over them etc

    Just use normal single/double gang metal boxes and chase them into the wall,as normal (if solid concrete/brick wall) or use butterfly/winged single and double gang plastic back boxes (for studded plasterboard walls) and fit flush fit plates.

    Simples.:)


  • #3
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Thanks!

    - Easy when ya know what yer at I suppose !!!


  • #4
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Well it can be more tricky than that, them sockets are a lot deeper than normal sockets at the back, but normal metal boxes can be used, but they have to be put deeper into the wall if its a block wall being chased.

    Standard steel boxes chased in their exact depth will be tight even on normal sockets because of the cables behind the socket connections.

    But deeper steel boxes can be got, and make life easier because you then know you are in deep enough once they are flush with the wall surface.

    Is it a brick wall or dry lined?

    Update
    Is it normal white sockets your using? I first read the post thinking it is the flat plate ones your going to use


  • #5
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    robbie7730 wrote: »
    Well it can be more tricky than that, them sockets are a lot deeper than normal sockets at the back, but normal metal boxes can be used, but they have to be put deeper into the wall if its a block wall being chased.

    Standard steel boxes chased in their exact depth will be tight even on normal sockets because of the cables behind the socket connections.

    But deeper steel boxes can be got, and make life easier because you then know you are in deep enough once they are flush with the wall surface.

    Is it a brick wall or dry lined?

    Update
    Is it normal white sockets your using? I first read the post thinking it is the flat plate ones your going to use

    Thanks for that - Its a block wall and probably white plastic sockets!


  • #6
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Raiser wrote: »
    Thanks for that - Its a block wall and probably white plastic sockets!

    Yes for standard sockets you can use standard steel boxes as paddy147 said. I have fitted them boxes flush with finished wall surface and the standard sockets go in ok. A few mm deeper than perfectly flush and it gives a bit more room. If its a wall that is just brick and is going to be skimmed then you have a few more mm then anyway.


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