Light switch bezel

[AdamW]

I'm sure that I have seen a "bezel" for light-switches, which was intended to prevent finger marks on the wall surrounding the switch. It was basically a plastic square with a hole in the centre that was the size of a single accessory.

But I can't find them anywhere now! Surely someone has seen them recently?

I need it because I had to cut a hole in the back of a kitchen wall unit to allow the FCU for an extractor to protrude. The hole is not perfect, so I want to cover the slightly-wrong edges. The alternative is to make my own surround out of wood, but I would rather just buy an off-the-shelf item.

I know that FCUs shouldn't be installed in cupboards, but the only other suitable location would have been above the cupboards, which would mean standing on a stool to get to it... rather unsafe compared to opening a cupboard and flipping a switch!

 

[fido]

I've never heard that fused spurs should not be fitted in cupboards, lots of immersion heaters are done that way. I think those switch surrounds went out of fashion so they stoped making them. If you find an old fashioned ironmongers they might have a new-old-stock one.

 

[Adam_151]

Tried Wilkinsons?

 

[supersparks]

out of fashon?

you can get em at b+q

or wholesalers they are called acsessory surrounds or similar

they wont fit arround your FCU though, unless your fitting them behind the front plate or thebackbox because they are the sixe of a 1 gang acsessory+ 2 mm each side lip which fits under the plate to hold it in place

 

[AdamW]

I'll check out B&Q then, thanks for the tip!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

they wont fit arround your FCU though, unless your fitting them behind the front plate or thebackbox because they are the sixe of a 1 gang acsessory+ 2 mm each side lip which fits under the plate to hold it in place

But an FCU and a single gang plateswitch are exactly the same size...

 

[supersparks]

well done *claps*

there is a lip which fits behind all 1 gang acsessorys, 2 gang on the 2 gang versions, i used the actual proposed use as an example.

i dident think anyone would be so stupid to think a Fused spur/connection unit would be a different size to a lightswitch

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Apologies - a combination I think of me not understanding what you'd said, and not expressing myself clearly.

The penny has now dropped and I realise you were warning of the situation where the FCU and/or the pattress was on a different plane to the back panel of the kitchen unit.

Given the description I had to cut a hole in the back of a kitchen wall unit to allow the FCU to protrude, you're probably right.

 

[supersparks]

thanks bas, on reading my reply i sounded a bit snappy aswell

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Heaven forbid that anybody should type a snappy reply

 

[Adam_151]

 

[Steve]

A quick note, you can actually fit the surround onto the switch without unwiring it - it is fiddly, but if you have the switch and surround diagonally, it does work.