Dot Dab Plaster wall - 35mm box? Plasterer at odds with electrician

[snowhead]

I'd suggest working which boxes are more likely to be needed at 35mm and just go for the essentials @ 35mm not the lot.

 

[Teddy Lop]

dotdab has never covered 35mm boxes. Wouldn't even trust 25 TBH. your sparkys first site job?

I use 35 min for everything, even when not required protects against the client changing his mind and turning up with flatplates, stops busy switches esp dimmers being such a crush etc.

pet hate - 4 gang flat dimmer on 25mm backbox with 300 cables in it - but he used 1.5mm to do a proper job right!!

 

[Pete999]

dotdab has never covered 35mm boxes. Wouldn't even trust 25 TBH. your sparkys first site job?

I use 35 min for everything, even when not required protects against the client changing his mind and turning up with flatplates, stops busy switches esp dimmers being such a crush etc.

pet hate - 4 gang flat dimmer on 25mm backbox with 300 cables in it - but he used 1.5mm to do a proper job right!!

Must be some switching arrangement withh 300 cales Mate Jodrell Bank is it? Joke I know where you are coming from

 

[davesparks]

If you specified 35mm flush mounted back boxes and they have quoted from that specification then that is what should be installed.
Anything else and it doesn't meet specification and should be corrected at their expense.

 

[UNG]

I am on a tight schedule and for 30 sockets he is looking at 2/3 days more work - I might just have to bite the bullet and go with 25mm boxes.

2/3 days to sink 30 boxes 10mm into a wall !!, how many tea breaks is he having

Quite normal now to fit 35mm boxes and have to sink them 10 - 15mm to accommodate a 25mm dot and dab spread

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

He should have sunk them. Never getting a 35mm dab unless it’s insulated board. Don’t accept 25mm back boxes. It will limit you in the future.

 

[Baddegg]

2/3 days to sink 30 boxes 10mm into a wall !!, how many tea breaks is he having

Quite normal now to fit 35mm boxes and have to sink them 10 - 15mm to accommodate a 25mm dot and dab spread

Mornings work....

 

[Leesparkykent]

Generally 25mm boxes are fine to be screwed direct to the wall if being dot and dabbed. If 35mm then they normally get chased in 10-15mm as dabbing that far out uses a lot of gear and can be a pain.

 

[UNG]

Mornings work....

Exactly, wouldn't take much more than a day if it was engineering brick

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Mornings work....

Exactly this, the walls getting dabbed over so it doesn’t need to be an sorta of neat. SDS on hammer with the chisel bit and shave 10mm off. In red brick it’s only taking a day, absolutely tops and that’s if you have a smoke after each box!