Metal Back Box Clips

[SUNRAY]

That’s a smart application bringing on the extraction
I must remember that , one bringing on the other . Im used to thinking the other way round with 1 appliance disabling the other

as pictured it is 1 appliance disabling the other, as mentioned I added a contactor (Not easy due to the bulk of the hours run meter filling the space) to bring on the second appliance. It's one of those 'projects' born out of necessity which I was telling myself while converting it that next time I have to add a switch to make it an instant conversion but also thinking it should be a different enclosure and sockets mounted into it rather than just a brass bush and... and... then thought what the heck it's only a handful of bits of junk.

 

[securespark]

Well, after a very long drawn out affair, we have had the HSL decorated and I've finally got round to the second fix.

Here's the socket in the hall I took an unfused spur off which I fed through the wall (where the 20A connection plate is) to the socket on the other side in the dining room.

The dining room

In our en-suite (done much later), we have a towel rail heating element with built in controls. But this is for the bathroom, for which I got this separate stat.

It's annoying me that the Dimplex plate stands out like a sore thumb. I have spare MK dimmer plate somewhere that I may well get engraved to match and swap them over.

I'm most proud of these two, but you can't see the work that went into them! This Paramount wall was a right royal mess, cracked up and broken where two single boxes were fitted above and a double and single below. But I fixed and reinforced it with plasterboard, then filled and sanded. Bonding and Toupret are amazing! You'd never know, and it's a really sturdy fix.

The final 35mm box screwed into wood. In this case, the wood is mostly glued to the reverse side of the wall with "Sticks Like Sh*t", then screwed to the vertical stud on the RHS with very long screws.

 

[securespark]

PS

We haven't got round to the carpet yet!

 

[morqthana]

It's annoying me that the Dimplex plate stands out like a sore thumb. I have spare MK dimmer plate somewhere that I may well get engraved to match and swap them over.

Do you really need the engraved 'Off, min-7' scale?

If not, why not a 4-module Euro front plate, fuse module, switch module, 2-mod blanking plate which you drill and mount the Dimplex control? (I'm assuming here that the whole thing is held onto the plate by a nut around the thread of the potentiometer).

 

[morqthana]

Is that to plug in the top-of-the-stairs-trip-hazard?

 

[securespark]

Purely for a doorbell.

 

[securespark]

Do you really need the engraved 'Off, min-7' scale?

If not, why not a 4-module Euro front plate, fuse module, switch module, 2-mod blanking plate which you drill and mount the Dimplex control? (I'm assuming here that the whole thing is held onto the plate by a nut around the thread of the potentiometer).

The gubbins behind is not, as you might be led to believe, a dimmer module.

Behind the square front plate is a circuit board that fills the space.
Actually, I'd have to check it would fit an MK dimmer front plate, with it having rounded corners.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

for the dining room skts as pictured I would have used a 2+1 box and kept the visual break up of the background to a minimum

 

[securespark]

Do you really need the engraved 'Off, min-7' scale?

If not, why not a 4-module Euro front plate, fuse module, switch module, 2-mod blanking plate which you drill and mount the Dimplex control? (I'm assuming here that the whole thing is held onto the plate by a nut around the thread of the potentiometer).

Also just thought, the 4 mod Euro arrangement would use a two gang box, thus necessitating filling, plastering and redecoration, after we've just had it skimmed and decorated.

 

[securespark]

for the dining room skts as pictured I would have used a 2+1 box and kept the visual break up of the background to a minimum

Used to do that. In the days before 1+1, 1+2 and other combos were commonly available, I used a bracket that Appleby made to join two boxes together (SB604). but I don't like the effect any more. Visually, I prefer a gap between accessories.

 

[Jon c]

Happened to see this thread as I've just been ripping out the old wiring in a flat with paramount partition walls, these were the boxes they used when it was built back in the early 70s, the silver wings on either side fold in and out to be able to insert them into the wall, and theres a small screw in the back of the box that you're supposed to tighten and it pushes against the back of the plasterboard on the other side to sort of hold the box in place, although really most of the holding in is done by the faceplate being screwed on tightly sandwiching the plasterboard between the silver wings and faceplate.