Metal back boxes?.

[trialscot]

Hello again,
All our sockets and switches are wall mounted and I want to flush mount them.
I'm busy chasing for cables and cutting recesses for the boxes (by the way the Armeg that I borrowed works a treat in Victorian softish brick).
Can I re-use the existing plastic back boxes or is there a technical/safety reason for using metal ones?.
Cheers.

 

[Adam_151]

You can't flush in plastic surface pattresses, you just can't... for a start it'd look a complete mess and have a gap around it!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

How would you finish off the wall given that you wouldn't be able to extend plaster/filler under where the switchplate goes?

What would you do if the box ended up not perfectly level?

 

[trialscot]

What a bloody stupid question I asked, wasn't it!!!.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

BAS,

Have we lost you from the IET forum for good?

email them and ask.

You'll have to work out who to email - apparently putting a public-domain email address in a post here is not allowed.

 

[FingRinal]

From a classic by the Tremeloes:

Silence is golden, but my eyes still see
Silence is golden, golden
But my eyes still see

Talking is cheap, people follow like sheep
Even though there is nowhere to go ...

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Keep it up FR - with every passing moment I'm sure that more and more people are deciding that you are a rational and mature person.

 

[FingRinal]

BAS,

thank you. I am a mature and rational person - that you for noticing.