Pattress boxes to use with wooden sockets/switches

[Possom]

If installing a wooden socket and switch as shown (links also below), what sort of pattress would be used if installing directly onto the wall i.e. not using a metal pattress box within the wall?

Normally with a white plastic switch/socket one can easily get a white plastic pattress box.

Thanks.

https://www.diy.com/departments/varilight-10a-2-way-double-medium-oak-light-switch/1563662_BQ.prd
https://www.diy.com/departments/varilight-13a-medium-oak-switched-double-socket/1563664_BQ.prd

 

[JohnD]

the socket you show is described as "wood medium oak finish"

I expect it is an ordinary accessory made of fire retardant thermplastic with veneer applied to the outside.

If you like that sort of thing perhaps you could get a vinyl film, or sheet of veneer, to wrap an ordinary thermplastic backbox

If it is made of solid wood, I can't see how.

It would look much better with a flush recessed backbox, than a surface mounted one.

When I lived in a house with old lightswitches, they were round ones, and mounted on a turned hardwood backplate.

 

[Possom]

Thanks JohnD.

I just had a look through the spec within the links and it states: "This product is manufactured from sustainable hardwood".

 

[JohnD]

yes, I saw that and revised my reply.

The idea of an electrical accessory made of flammable materials is alien to me.

 

[jj4091]

wooden switch pattress maybe.

 

[RF Lighting]

They are wooden clad much the same as metal clad sockets are clad in metal. All the internals are fire retardent as normal. I have fitted these for a customer and don’t personally have any issue with them.