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[paulwest]

I have had the house re-wired and wondered if there is any regulations on how far the sockets should be from the wall ? obviously not to expose the wires, but there are some walls where it is about 2-3mm from the old wall paper or so but on fresh new plasterboard walls its 8-10mm, does it matter as long there is no access to the bare wires in the wall/behinf the socket surface ?
Thanks in advance, I would appreciate your comments

 

[GLENNSPARK]

looks like the job's been a team effort between a plasterer and stevie wonder.

Definetely a blind mans bluff job here tel.....which concerns me as if its the same electrician who did the "plastering".....wrong polarity etc maybe.........

 

[paulwest]

thanks for your help, the electrician who did all the rewiring after i chased it all out refused to sign me off until these two sockets were futher out from the wall as the surface was flush with the wall as its a soft brick, anyway got a the work as it is as in the photos, so hopefully it should be ok, but the regulation authority don't want to know, they just say the only person who can sign it off is the elctrician who did the work, and he refuses to fit the sockets correctlyas he puts it where as the building control officer who recently was on site looking at a different project says the works ok.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

As far as a bc officer is concerned it might be ok as he will be looking at the IP and the paperwork that should accompany this but personally....i wouldn`t put my name to this as it looks shoddy and i`m all for doin it right or not starting at all........

 

[sparkinlee]

Paul, are you the house owner, or a builder employing the electrician, or...?

I take it from your post that you did the chasing for the electrician and he fitted cables and accessories. I've worked in that way sometimes, but it's still up to me the electrician to take responsibility for the work. And yes sometimes you get soft bricks or other reasons why chases end up being deeper than intended, but there are ways to deal with this - deeper back boxes, etc - so that you're still left with a good job.

I agree with the other comments that this should be sorted - how are you going to decorate around this decently?

 

[Geordie Spark]

THAT is a bodge job. Plain & simple.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Where a hole ends up too deep for the flush box to be screwed to the brick there is a simple way to fix so that the box ends up correctly installed.
Fill the hole with soft undercoat plaster and then tap the box back into the hole so that it is level,and square,and flush..The plaster will squidge out around the box and can be troweled off.Leave the plaster a couple of mill back from the surface and when it's gone off the box will be solid.Finally float over with finish.
Not rocket science.