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August 12, 2017 18:07

Instruction in the pictures on the wall installation Escutcheon

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Enclosures is a metal, and more - a plastic cup into which the outlet or circuit breaker at the electrical work.Installation of this product is not a big deal, but for each of the materials of the walls (brick, concrete, plaster or wood) the installation will have its own nuances.Next, we will tell you how to install podrozetnik in concrete, brick, wood and plasterboard wall, providing illustrative examples of photo, video instructions and a brief description of each technology.

Contents:
  • What to look for before you install?
  • Preparing to sidebar
  • installation technology in the concrete and brick in drywall
  • The tree
  • Practical advice

What to look for before you install?

Before you decide to install the product in a wall, you need to choose the type of Escutcheon correctly.To date, the following commercially available varieties of so-called cup under the outlets and switches:

  • Plastic without presser feet.Used to set the body in concrete and brick wall.Regular plastic cup
  • plastic with the presser foot.Quickly install podrozetnik in the wall of plasterboard and plastic panels.
    The design with the presser foot
  • Metal (with the bottom / bottomless).Previously used when installing wiring in panel houses the old model.Today can be used if necessary to carry out the wiring in a wooden house hidden way (very rare to find such an option).According to the rules of the SAE to install sockets and switches in the tree can be used only if podrozetnik metal, so to produce a version of the glass has not yet lifted.U- 196

selecting the appropriate option, you can move items to the preparatory work, which we now discuss!

Preparing to sidebar

So, in order to establish podrozetnik own hands, you have to first of all to prepare the next set of materials and tools:

  1. Punch or electric drill;
  2. crown on plaster, brick or concrete (depending on whether the wall is Stroebe) or pobeditovoe drill;
  3. Building level;
  4. Marker;
  5. spatulas and plaster (if drywall or wood, it is not necessary);
  6. chisel and hammer.

prepare all the materials you can proceed to install the wall Escutcheon.Now we will briefly look at how to insert and fix the glass under the outlet in each of the existing options walls.

installation technology in the concrete and brick

If you need to install podrozetnik in a concrete or brick wall, then you need to read to operate properly:

  1. Make marks on the surface using a spirit level and a marker in accordance with the scheme of the wiring in the house.sockets the installation height can be selected at its discretion, SNIP and GOST standards are not currently specified.All you need to - put a cross in a suitable location (the center of the future hole) leaning podrozetnik the center and circle marker.Partitioning wall photo
  2. With punch and Stroebe drill bits suitable for 4-5 mm deeper than the height of the cup you want to install.If there is no special cutter handy, just in a circle drill drill drill group with pobeditovym holes and beat out the core with a chisel and hammer.Another way - to make a square hole neatly grinder with a diamond disc.Shtroblenie concrete wall puncher Ready Stroebe shtroblenie drill Using a grinder
  3. When you get to make a round Stroebe, clean it from the inside, and then try on podrozetnik that it went well in the seat and will not have any difficulties with the installation.Immediately cut a hole in it for the input wire and slide the wires inside.ready hole Removing the flap Prepared seat for vmazki
  4. Dilute the solution to vmazat podrozetnik in a concrete or brick wall.A good solution can come from gypsum plaster, plaster and water.Solution vmazki
  5. Moisten the hole and scribble with a spatula into the solution, as shown in the photo.Then carefully attach the glass flush with the wall, and the screws on the sides to be arranged strictly parallel to the floor (otherwise not be able to install an outlet exactly).Mounting Escutcheon
  6. seal the edges and remove excess solution to the glass was clean and prepared for further electrical work, after the plaster sets.Removing excess solution result

This is such a simple way, you can manually set podrozetnik in the wall of brick, concrete, concrete blocks or even aerated concrete.Be sure to check the video instructions provided below to see clearly the essence of the entire installation.

video lesson for fastening glasses block in the monolith
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plasterboard

Escutcheon Attach drywall in an order of magnitude easier.There is no longer need to raise the core solution and knock Stroebe chisel.As we said earlier, there is a special glass of the presser foot, which easily fix podrozetnik in drywall.installation steps In order to install the glass in a plaster wall, follow these steps:

  1. Apply markings on the surface, by analogy with the previous technology.More markup plasterboard wall we looked at when told about how to install drywall to the wall outlet.
  2. cut in the bottom of the hole for the wires and insert the product into Stroebe.
  3. Spinning cogs on the sides until the box is tightly locks inside.
How to install the product in the drywall?
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That's all you need to do to install Escutcheon in plasterboard walls with his own hands.As you can see, everything is very simple to install, and the product can even new to electrics.Please note that if gypsum partition is further lined with tile, you need to act a little differently.In the video below, which cup mount technology for ceramic tiles.

How to install on the tile?
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second way to make the block of sockets in a tile
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The tree

Well, the last of mounting options - in a wooden wall.If you decide to spend concealed wiring in a wooden house, which is very strange and unsafe, you will need to make Stroebe tree for installation of metal Enclosures.correct wiring

Dangerous wiring

In this case, you can use a special crown for wood and chisel, but we strongly recommend to carry out installation of open wiring, becauseIn this case, Stroebe walls or wooden battens is not necessary.

Practical advice

All existing methods of installation Escutcheon the wall with their hands, we have listed.Finally I would like to give some useful tips that will quickly and correctly mount the glasses in Stroebe.

  1. If you wall protection panels PVC (for example, in the bathroom), buy Escutcheon for drywall installation and perform similarly to fastening technology in the sheets GCR.To avoid accidentally pull out the socket from the plastic panel when removing the power plug, recommended for plastic to make a reinforcing frame made of plywood or the same plaster.
  2. installs products after plaster walls.If you first install the glass in Stroebe, and then plastered walls, perhaps in the future not be able to install the flush socket.Better to be safe and not to make installation as plastered walls.At the same time put podrozetnik after already pokleit wallpaper are also not the best solution, becausewill have to break the decoration of walls that can damage the interior of the room.That is why the golden mean is the installation of the product immediately after the plaster, becausein extreme cases the finish plaster and wallpaper will be able to close all defects.
  3. Check the spirit level marking horizontality, especially if you decide to install a block Enclosures (3-4 sockets).Otherwise, after you secure the glasses connected to the wall, you may have an oblique block, which negatively displayed on the interior of the room (double socket will curve).The video installation glasses a brick wall instructions (in the beginning of this article) shows a very convenient layout and shtrobleniya technology that will make seats for sockets and switches perfectly smooth.glasses block
  4. If you have a situation where you want to install podrozetnik in the through hole (for example, in an apartment), or in too big a hole, simply apply more than plaster and in the usual manner vmazhte glass wall.You can also use spacers made of wooden sticks for pre-fixing the plastic cup.Use mounting foam for fixing - a moot point.On the one hand the rules of the SAE is not forbidden to use the material, but on the other hand, the foam does not meet fire safety conditions, so it is better still to use plaster.
  5. When replacing the electrical wiring in the house, you can leave the old course holes Enclosures, if you are satisfied with the height of the installation of embedded switches and sockets.Otherwise you can always paint over the old and make new holes where it will be more in demand.
  6. If the wall is too thin for mounting standard glass, it is best to set the switch or outlet invoice.You can of course a little pruning height Escutcheon and make it relevant, but it is only in extreme cases.

That's all that I wanted to tell you how to install Enclosures in concrete, brick, wood and plasterboard wall.We hope that the information, photos and video tutorial examples are useful and understandable for you!

Also read:

  • How to do the wiring by Stroebe
  • What are the electrical outlets
  • How to do the wiring under the plasterboard
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