Metal Back Box Sticks Out

[Echo the husky]

If the wall is rather fragile a disc cutter with a diamond blade will cut out the outline carefully, and can also cut the inside of the outline up a bit to make removal easier. I have a dust extraction attachment on mine otherwise it makes rather a lot of mess...

I've SEEN double 16mm boxes

Ah but have you ever seen double sided boxes? A friend has one in his house, with a single socket fitted either side.

 

[Iggifer]

Ah but have you ever seen double sided boxes? A friend has one in his house, with a single socket fitted either side.

I have never. Did it leave the factory like that? Or was it just bolted together after the fact? Surely it's terrible practice to have two sockets directly back to back? Unless on a stud wall. How do you fix the thing in place? Clip on wings?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Ah but have you ever seen double sided boxes? A friend has one in his house, with a single socket fitted either side.

 

[Echo the husky]

I have never. Did it leave the factory like that? Or was it just bolted together after the fact? Surely it's terrible practice to have two sockets directly back to back? Unless on a stud wall. How do you fix the thing in place? Clip on wings?

It was a factory made unit, in a stud wall, I didn't note how it was fixed, I was looking for an earth fault. Plate screws were 4BA.

That's a dual box, I'm talking a double SIDED box. You could look right through it.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I know.

 

[Echo the husky]

I know.

Oh

 

[cjard]

I should think grinding 7-5 mm off the front of a knock-out box would probably take off the fixing lugs, and disturb the knock-outs round the edges, and the corners where they fold together, and pretty much render the thing useless.

Y'see the bit where I said a few mm if the metal was still visible after fitting the face? That few is what would need taking off, not the whole 7..

 

[Iggifer]

Even so....

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Clip on wings?

Only if you want to play footie.

 

[endecotp]

If desperate, google "extension collars".

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Don't they solve the opposite problem? His box isn't too shallow, it's too deep.