wall mount pull switch

[kenmcc]

hi

i want to replace my toddler childrens' play room standard rocker light switch with a pull cord switch. this is so they can work the light on their own until such time as they are big enough to lose the room and we can turn it back into a sitting room! so it's long-term temporary and i don't want to re-route the cabling and mount a switch in the ceiling.

i thought i would be able to pick up a wall mounted pull switch but all i see (looking online and B&Q) are ceiling mounted switches

is this for safety reasons? am i looking in the wrong places?
would i be OK with a ceiling switch mounted on its side and just expect the cord to wear out (and be replaced)?

cheers

 

[ninebob]

Not an application I've come across before!

Personally, I'd replace the existing switch with a 2-way and come down the wall to a second switch at their level. Easily removed at a point in the future....

 

[dw3101]

Buy a blanking plate, holesaw a 20mm hole in it fit a grommet and bolt a pull switch over it.. (Use nuts and bolts with washers inside to spread the load..

Will look Ugly as fook but if its temporary (if there was ever such a thing)
it should do, if you cant find anything.. Im sure you can get DP isolators that fit single gang boxes.. (might be worth checking there application here.. also take some pulling (oo err))

David

 

[kenmcc]

Personally, I'd replace the existing switch with a 2-way and come down the wall to a second switch at their level. Easily removed at a point in the future....

hand not thought of that! but now the place is papered, painted, things on the wall.... i'm not so keen.

Not an application I've come across before!

this surprises me a little. i thought this approach would have been suited for tailoring houses for the wheelchair bound - replace a switch rather than move the switch.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

You do know, don't you, that if you give them the means to operate a light switch that they will regard it as just one more toy.