Flush mounted pull cord backbox and theories

[Deleted member 105153]

Hi all,
It just popped into my head about bathroom pull cord switches, do they ever have flush mounting boxes, every one I have seen has been surface mounted, and also, why are shower pull cords cut shorter, which I see in most places?

 

[Octopus]

Dry line box in ceiling

 

[Deleted member 105153]

Dry line box in ceiling

Thanks, is it like this one: Appleby Circular Dry Liner Box 35mm - https://www.screwfix.com/p/appleby-circular-dry-liner-box-35mm/90517?tc=AT1&ds_rl=1249481&ds_rl=1245250&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1az04p_o1wIVZpPtCh0kHQMcEAQYASABEgJemfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CLza6Oef6NcCFYmxUQodR08B3Q

 

[Pete999]

Hi all,
It just popped into my head about bathroom pull cord switches, do they ever have flush mounting boxes, every one I have seen has been surface mounted, and also, why are shower pull cords cut shorter, which I see in most places?

To stop people mistaking the shower pull cord for the light switch?? I wouldn't use a dry lining box for the shower pull cord, far to flimsy for my liking!

 

[DavidSpark]

To stop people mistaking the shower pull cord for the light switch?? I wouldn't use a dry lining box for the shower pull cord, far to flimsy for my liking!

It sounds like a sure way to rip a hole in your ceiling when you get someone a bit heavy handed going for a shower!

 

[Octopus]

Or you could use a square one for a square switch

But as others have pointed out, its not a brilliant idea - especially if you do it to a shower isolator.

 

[Taylortwocities]

As David says - and if I remember my training - all pull switches need to be mounted on a joist/noggin. If you use a dry line box, a medium pull on even on a light switch could rip it out of the ceiling, and shower switches need a decent yank to operate them.

The only way would be to engineer a wood support/noggin and fit a metal backbox up in the loft so the switch sits flush in the ceiling. But that's an hours worth of carpentry...

 

[Deleted member 105153]

Very true, you could end up with a hole in the ceiling! Thank you all very much

 

[kingeri]

I have actually seen this happen, a flush mounted shower pull cord, hadn't actually ripped out of the ceiling but it was almost at that point, very loose and wobbly. Ceiling was a mess, not the easiest of things to sort out. Dry lining boxes are not a good idea for pull switches!

 

[Squid]

Jebus, who still uses pull cord switches in bathrooms in this day and age?

 

[Pete999]

Jebus, who still uses pull cord switches in bathrooms in this day and age?

Not you obviously

 

[Squid]

Not you obviously

I also don't have an outside loo or have a bath once a month in a tin bath in front of a coal fire in the living room..........

 

[Pete999]

I also don't have an outside loo or have a bath once a month in a tin bath in front of a coal fire in the living room..........

Come to that neither do I. But, but I do have a pull switch in my bathroom, 2 in fact 1 for the light and 1 for the shower

 

[Squid]

And a pull chain for the wall mounted ceiling height water cistern.......

Electric showers, jeeeez these Northerners are stuck back in the 70's

 

[buzzlightyear]

I also don't have an outside loo or have a bath once a month in a tin bath in front of a coal fire in the living room

lovely jubbly.did you hear that granddad!