How to tile around an electrical socket
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- Plugs and electrical sockets are an essential part of modern life, so when it comes to unlocking your dream home its highly likely that you will come across a socket or light switch.
If you have ever wondered how you can tile around these obstacles and still maintain a professional look?
This handy video shows you just how to tile around any socket and end up with a flush finish you can be proud of - Jak na to + styl
That music made it feel like I was watching this in a fever dream
This is a very unusual socket situation - having an external mounted box sunk into the wall. Why show an example like this? Most sockets have a back box (metal or plastic on other side of plasterboard) which means that it's not straight forward as in your video.....that is, you'd need to install extra long electrical screws since the tile goes behind the electric socket front plate, not around it like in your video.
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You don't need to set square Mark out just score it with a Ruby cut it saves time 👍
Can you do the same cutting with single slab backsplash
My tiles are slightly proud of my patress boxes, do try and set the boxes flush with the face of the tiles or, can I put my nice new switch plates on, using the same silicone that I'm using all around the kitchen, to seal the plate to the tiles ?? It's literally 3-5 millimetres on all the boxes,lower and upper including light switches. It was like it with the old tiles that I removed and it is slightly less with new new tiles I am about to install so, it has been like that the entire time I have been here and there has not been an issue, I just want to know so it is done correctly, legally with longevity and safety in mind.
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Frenzied and completely unnecessary background music makes this a hard watch, despite the skilled professional advice. What do you do without a power cutter, how would you make the parallel side cuts?
Ok but usually the sockets would be mounted on a metal back box not a surface patress box that has been sunk into the wall some how. That will need a somewhat different technique especially if the tile surfaces are textured. The actual sockets need sealing to the tiles somehow.
You skipped the part where the outlet or switch is now 1/4 to 3./8 deeper than the surface of the new tile. Magically you go from no outlet to screwing in the faceplate. But that's impossible if it is set behind the tile.
Just use longer screws.
Longer screws
always shows it where tile is bang in middle, never shows what to do, for example, when bottom of socket is running along your grout line
Such an incomplete video, no way goes far enough to cover all aspects of this job - either do the instruction video properly or don't do it at all. Waste of time!