plastering kitchen

[lilac]

OK silly question now, when plastering kitchen do you have to turn off the electric ?
I have a wylex fuse box and the cooker and down lights have own switch - but would all the downstairs sockets have to be off for the plasterers to do the job - half plastering and ceiling boards ?

 

[Richard C]

You have to at least pull the switch faces/roses off the wall/ceiling to plaster behind them. I suppose it will depend on individual plasterers but I don’t usually leave the supply permanently disconnected. There are 2 ways of doing it; undo the screws & pull the face plate/ceiling rose away from the wall/ceiling, wrap it in a sandwich bag & tape it tight to the cables; unfortunately this means you still have to dodge around the switch plates/rose with the trowel. Remove the switch plate/ceiling rose completely, make a temporary termination into a terminal block, put this in a sandwich bag, tape it tight to the cables & shove it into the wall box or into the ceiling.

 

[lilac]

thanks I will prob get an electrician to do that cos I will have to move them a bit for new layout - when he fitted them they were in the main sunk into a metal plate and he said the plasterers could work round them