How to fit electrical back box if there is no back?!?

[Nick Leverton]

Have got one, but I spend ages battering through an inclusion to get the damn socket to sit level and then the brittle thingy goes and busts that half of the brick away ...

Nick

[John Stumbles]

or s/gripfill/1-part PU/

[YAPH]

We were fixing a stout batten to a flimsy wall and put several 8mm holes in nice and deep - full depth of the drill bit - to get 2 grey wallplugs into each hole. Right length screws and you've got a really strong fitting.

Then went into the kitchen next door to put the kettle on and realised that an entire run of tiles on the other side was lying on the floor. The tiling was hollow-sounding anyway, and the drill bit had just gone through the 75mm block wall on each hole!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Nick Leverton saying something like:

Bugger that, you need a nice Armeg, you do.

[jgharston]

The previous owner of my house 30 years ago was putting cupboards up in the kitchen and drilled the requisite holes and pushed wallplugs into them. A few minutes later her neighbour came round to return the wallplugs that she'd discovered in /her/ kitchen.

JGH