Accessible for inspection?, Pub Light Switch.....

[CAWORK]

From my local,

A light switch with only ONE screw visible LOL

 

[sparkwright]

Why people build new walls and cannot find someone who can move a switch just a few inches is beyond me.

 

[john4703]

That is accessible it will just leave a bit of wall missing.
To be serious how does anyone plaster a wall and cover up part of a switch?

I am not sure if I like plasterers. I remember when I was serving my time, I did a homer with a qualified spark. We did a first fix, loads of cables neatly clipped to the bare brick wall, boxes for sockets and switches all fixed. A week later we returned, and the house had been plastered, there was no sign of any cable or back box. It took us a while with a magnet, a cold chisel and a lump hammer to uncover all the boxes.

 

[chivers67]

Or even replace it with an Architrave switch!

 

[JohnW2]

Why people build new walls and cannot find someone who can move a switch just a few inches is beyond me.

Quite so - or, as has been said, change it to an architrave switch.

When I moved into my house many years ago, there was a double socket with only half of it (i.e. 'one outlet') visible, the other half having disappeared into a new wall!

Kind Regards, John

 

[securespark]

That is accessible it will just leave a bit of wall missing.
To be serious how does anyone plaster a wall and cover up part of a switch?

I am not sure if I like plasterers. I remember when I was serving my time, I did a homer with a qualified spark. We did a first fix, loads of cables neatly clipped to the bare brick wall, boxes for sockets and switches all fixed. A week later we returned, and the house had been plastered, there was no sign of any cable or back box. It took us a while with a magnet, a cold chisel and a lump hammer to uncover all the boxes.

The exact same thing happened to me. I rang the plasterer and he was less than apologetic.

 

[JohnW2]

... I remember when I was serving my time,....

I didn't realise that we had a criminal (or ex-criminal) in our midst

Kind Regards, John

 

[plugwash]

To be serious how does anyone plaster a wall and cover up part of a switch?

It seems rather extreme for just plastering.

I would guess either the swtich predates the wall, or some extra material (maybe sound insulation?) of quite substantial thickness was added to the walls surface.

 

[john4703]

I didn't realise that we had a criminal (or ex-criminal) in our midst

Kind Regards, John

It felt like hard labour at times

 

[sparkwright]

That is accessible it will just leave a bit of wall missing.
To be serious how does anyone plaster a wall and cover up part of a switch?

I am not sure if I like plasterers. I remember when I was serving my time, I did a homer with a qualified spark. We did a first fix, loads of cables neatly clipped to the bare brick wall, boxes for sockets and switches all fixed. A week later we returned, and the house had been plastered, there was no sign of any cable or back box. It took us a while with a magnet, a cold chisel and a lump hammer to uncover all the boxes.

I thought you going to say they removed all the cables and boxes because they were in the way...

 

[sparkwright]

It seems rather extreme for just plastering.

I would guess either the swtich predates the wall, or some extra material (maybe sound insulation?) of quite substantial thickness was added to the walls surface.

It looks to be like a new partition wall was built, at a 90 degree angle to the original wall.