how wide does plasterboard wall need to be.for electrics?

[dunkin]

Hi, I am attempting my first go at battening to an internal wall to affix plasterboard lining. We are having some rewiring done in this room and a new cooker point moved to where I will complete this plasterboard drylining.
What im stuck with is how wide does the batten need to be in order for the Electrician to fit a cooker point into the plasterboard wall? I have some 22mm thick batten which is fine for the cabling but will the electrical box part of the cooker point fit?

Thanks in advance.

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[TheVictorian]

A 35mm back box will go into that no problem when you add the plasterboard and skim depth.

 

[TheVictorian]

And I think you are talking about depth rather than width.

 

[dunkin]

Yeh sorry, depth not width

 

[flameport]

Cooker backboxes are 47mm depth, so about 12mm will have to be cut out of the wall.
However this is of no relevance at all - it's only one box.

Use 35mm boxes for everything else as already suggested, they can be fixed directly to the existing surface, the 22mm battens + 12.5mm plasterboard are near enough the same depth.

 

[Lectrician]

If it's a kitchen, make sure you either run a batten around at the height of the top of the cabinets, to give a fixing for the cabinet wall plates, or web the wall with ply before then plaster-boarding. Never a struggle for a fixing then!