what the betting it has been energised. was the fight over the knockout
out box being to far back from the 12.5 plaster board brought out to far .answer longer screws .
A Dryliner didnt put that plasterboard up a butcher did. Horrendous cutting of a socket not only that it looks like he hasn't bonded around the socket neither.
A Dryliner didnt put that plasterboard up a butcher did. Horrendous cutting of a socket not only that it looks like he hasn't bonded around the socket neither.
Interested in what the external walls of the house are made of? Why are you dot and dabbing onto the external wall. We dot and dabbed insulated plasterboard onto solid stone walls in one room last year. We’ve since refurbished the whole house with lime plaster direct onto the stone as it has to breathe. When we removed the insulated plaster board there was a lot of damp between the two. Expensive business as the lime plaster is a real pig to work with.
Fair enough, Not usual for both jobs to be done by one trade, even though this is the case it isn't that bad, the box is set in a bit deep though admittedly.
My opinion is that the socket box looks fine for a first fix. They’ve even used grommets and earned the backbox. We don’t even know that this could become live as for all we know it could be disconnected at the cu or at another point on the circuit. The gap between the backbox and the plasterboard is a non issue at this stage as there are extension boxes available to bring it out further not that it particularly needs it. As for contacting NICEIC that’s a bit extreme for a first fixed socket. Your concern seems to be about the plasterboard wall getting damp. Have you contacted anybody about that? Even if the backbox was extended it’s not going to stop any dampness so I really don’t get the point of this thread.
Interested in what the external walls of the house are made of? Why are you dot and dabbing onto the external wall. We dot and dabbed insulated plasterboard onto solid stone walls in one room last year. We’ve since refurbished the whole house with lime plaster direct onto the stone as it has to breathe. When we removed the insulated plaster board there was a lot of damp between the two. Expensive business as the lime plaster is a real pig to work with.
i didn't dot and dab, the electrician did. The walls are solid stone and brick. Yes i agree very poor move for dot and dab
should have been battened and used a lime plaster board to let it breath. Assumed all builders knew that. Damp walls and gap between face plate and frame is not good news.
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