Alternative to fast fix boxes

[underdog]

Is there an alternative to fast fix boxes? I've just fit a screw less flat plate socket to one and can see the fast fix box!
metal ko box on a noggin isn't an option as it's an existing drywall!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Is there an alternative to fast fix boxes? I've just fit a screw less flat plate socket to one and can see the fast fix box!
metal ko box on a noggin isn't an option as it's an existing drywall!

You mean there's a bit of the box's flange showing beyond the edges of the plate socket?

Is it too difficult to take something like an 8" second cut file to the box and file the required amount off the flange??

 

[NDG Elecs]

You can get metal clips called plasterboard flanges. They come up on Google They are used with normal metal back boxes.

 

[guest119]

Cut the front lip off and side fix the box. It will still hold itself on when the accessory is fitted.
Or use the original Tenby type fast fix box without the flange/lip.

Boydy

 

[simpson93]

mark up and cut a small amount of plaster from behind the lip ?

 

[PEG]

I always run a bead of silicone sealant round,and sprinkle sequins over before it dries...but that's just a by-product of having Gok Won as a lover...

 

[NDG Elecs]

I always run a bead of silicone sealant round,and sprinkle sequins over before it dries...but that's just a by-product of having Gok Won as a lover...

In Yankee accent: You go girl

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I always run a bead of silicone sealant round,and sprinkle sequins over before it dries...but that's just a by-product of having Gok Won as a lover...

In Yankee accent: You go girl

 

[underdog]

Thanks I've decided to go for the silicone option but instead of sequins I've opted for glitter it seemed a more professional job

 

[Geordie Spark]

Thanks I've decided to go for the silicone option but instead of sequins I've opted for glitter it seemed a more professional job

It sounds like something a "gay" bloke masquerading as a saucy female electrician around here would do.

 

[tidyboiler]

It sounds like something a "gay" bloke masquerading as a saucy female electrician around here would do.

Of which there are a few it would appear.

 

[One_of_them]

are those plasterboard flanges good? First time I have heard of them

 

[NDG Elecs]

TBH I have some in the van as back-up but have not needed to use one yet.

They look like it will be a bit fiddly as the metal back box will be left floating until it is tightened up, but I reckon they will work fine by the look of them.

 

[Geordie Spark]

TBH I have some in the van as back-up but have not needed to use one yet.

They look like it will be a bit fiddly as the metal back box will be left floating until it is tightened up, but I reckon they will work fine by the look of them.

I used them.

Bloody ballache they were.

Just before you get the screws tightened, the damned things fall off down the cavity. :angry_smile::32:

 

[itselectric]

Those metal flanges were brought out in the seventies when, at the time a new type of internal wall was being built.
These walls were called paramount partitions, we called them egg box walls because of their construction. They were two plasterboards with a honeycomb type set up separating them I think made the total wall thickness about 50mm. because of this ready made construction there were no noggins to fix the boxes. I think that also would have been the birth of the dry lining box.

 

[underdog]

I come across those egg box walls occasionally it makes fishing a cable so easy!