Installing Enclosures in concrete, brick, drywall: Enclosures can we put on the mounting foam

Enclosures - a plastic or metal cup, which is mounted in the switch or outlet. There plastic Escutcheon embodiment with the presser foot and without, as well as metallic embodiment without bottom or bottom. Previously used metal.

Now used mainly plastic, but for a wooden house and concealed wiring may only metal items:

Plastic is used for mounting in brick, plasterboard, wood, concrete wall.

Enclosures perform another role - to protect against fire. The walls are conductive, so it is important to use Enclosures.

In concrete, brick wall, as well as from the wall of concrete blocks, aerated concrete, it is necessary to make a hole for the Escutcheon puncher with a crown. Some make a square hole grinder with a diamond disc.

To put podrozetnik accustomed to using a solution of gypsum, water and plaster. This solution was dispensed into the opening and fixed Escutcheon. Then close all the gaps around the edges of the same solution.

The easiest way to install drywall in the Escutcheon. Is on sale Plastic Enclosures with special presser foot. They are ideal for drywall.

Fastening Escutcheon made with gypsum plaster on by a tile adhesive, cement mortar. But over time it may crack, and then sleep. The socket may fall.

Can I fix podrozetnik on the foam?

Polyurethane foam is used almost everywhere. Some increasingly began to use assembly foam for Enclosures. No regulations there that would prohibit mounting foam Enclosures.

Foam is more convenient, easier to use. Durability is not at all smaller than in the conventional mounting, and even better.

The foam is best to use the class of flammability B or A. such foam does not support open burning and instantly fades. When the foam dries, closed with a thin layer of putty around the edges of the mounting foam.

After installing outlets, has been audited. Pulled out and inserted into the fork a few times. Enclosures on the foam keep strong.

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