Backing Plate For Wall Lights

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Wooden pattress. They're easy enough to make from 18mm MDF.

Cic.

Are you able to turn water into wine as well?

"Jeff Gaines" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net:

I have used wooden pattresses to fit ceiling lights in a period home. Not used them for wall lights, but the place we bought them from also does oval ones. Not cheap, but they do look the part:

Hope this helps

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Of course - just add a home brew kit and a sprinkling of yeast.

Cic.

Dunno about oval, but you can use a architrave box and mount to a blank plate - or for round do the same with a BESA one.

Thanks for all the input :-)

I think I will replace the mix of pattress boxes/holes in the wall with flush architrave boxes for a start. Then I will mount the lights on brass finger plates (Georgian type with a decorative edge) with brass bolts then mount that assembly over the architrave box. This will also overcome the issue that the cables are all bottom entry so I can't use the bottom fixing on the light - a finger plate would mean I can get fixings either side of the cable.

Excellent way of doing it. And allows easy removal for later decoration etc. Screws into the wall either side of a cable sticking out are guaranteed to give trouble. And likely go into the mortar course. ;-)