Light switch plate (Box not deep enought)

[Jeremy2014]

Hello Expert, so we have replaced a light switch and sadly, the box in the wall is not deep enough.

What would be your recommendations?

Was thinking maybe some kind of cover to put behind the plate? but unsure that exist?

 

[ETAF]

you can buy bezels/spacers what colour is it how far out

Google Search

 

[EFLImpudence]

Obviously - fit a deeper box.

 

[Jeremy2014]

not feeling comfortable to replace with a deeper box with the cable there. Could this alternative do the trick? got this when searching for spacer / bezels

https://www.electricalcounter.co.uk/bg-electrical-817-g-moulded-grey-round-edge-1-gang-10mm-square-spacer?srsltid=AfmBOoq7ZbgCKwx-KGl-CGbdefF_5N6mGloz3rDL-T0zDb3_oWPpQIngRFs

or

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandyseptember-Single-Surround-Pattress-Increase/dp/B0DYJKZP45?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A1W4OIAWXXQ1XI&th=1

 

[pete01]

Or build the wall out to suit.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Or build the wall out to suit.

Yep, get the wall reskimmed, so the plaster is deeper.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

If you can dress the cables neatly in the back box it might work. Show us a pic of the back of the switch.

 

[pete01]

Yep, get the wall reskimmed, so the plaster is deeper.

Haha, I'd probably just fit a deeper box...maybe

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Haha, I'd probably just fit a deeper box...maybe

 

[sparkwright]

not feeling comfortable to replace with a deeper box with the cable there. Could this alternative do the trick? got this when searching for spacer / bezels

https://www.electricalcounter.co.uk/bg-electrical-817-g-moulded-grey-round-edge-1-gang-10mm-square-spacer?srsltid=AfmBOoq7ZbgCKwx-KGl-CGbdefF_5N6mGloz3rDL-T0zDb3_oWPpQIngRFs

or

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandyseptember-Single-Surround-Pattress-Increase/dp/B0DYJKZP45?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A1W4OIAWXXQ1XI&th=1

That's what you need if you don't want to change the box.

 

[sparkwright]

I don't know if they are still in fashion, but you could get wooden spacers in a range of varnished finishes, which may look better.

 

[pete01]

I don't know if they are still in fashion, but you could get wooden spacers in a range of varnished finishes, which may look better.

Good plan, like this?

ElekTek Light Switch Surround Finger Plate Frame No Socket Single Dark Wood | eBay UK

This decorative switch surround is attached to your wall by applying the supplied double-sided self-adhesive tape. WARNING - ELECTRICITY CAN KILL - IF IN ANY DOUBT CONSULT A QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN. Light switch shown for illustration only, not included with surround.

ebay.us

 

[robinbanks]

Please make sure you have installed an Earth link wire from the switch plate to the backbox and that the wire that activates the light has an Earth core that is truly connected to Earth at the CU

I just finished a run through a flat wired in the 60s that had metal switches exactly like yours and not a single one of them was earthed to the back box, half the back boxes didn't even contain an Earth core and for those that did it went into the loft, joined to other earths and went nowhere

If you don't have viable earthing at the switch, replace those switches with plastic ones

 

[sparkwright]

Good plan, like this?

ElekTek Light Switch Surround Finger Plate Frame No Socket Single Dark Wood | eBay UK

This decorative switch surround is attached to your wall by applying the supplied double-sided self-adhesive tape. WARNING - ELECTRICITY CAN KILL - IF IN ANY DOUBT CONSULT A QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN. Light switch shown for illustration only, not included with surround.

ebay.us

NOT EXACTLY - it looks like THOSE ones go AROUND the switch, rather than BEHIND the switch.
(I could be wrong.)

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I don't know if they are still in fashion, but you could get wooden spacers in a range of varnished finishes, which may look better.

I make my own.