Sealing powerpoints?

[Barney Loveland]

Hey Lads,
Just wondering what ideas you have for sealing powerpoints? Do you build a box around it and caulk the cable entry? Just goo up the hole and screw in the plate and hope for the best? I've heard of quiet putty but not seen any. Ideas?

[Gian]

Fullers firesound around the wires and hole.

[Barney Loveland]

I have heaps of firesound, been through about 50 sausages, and my hands various shades of grey.

Easy enough to goo up each point but as I can't see the back of the point well, there''s still a bit of a chance of not fully sealing it.

Leaning towards building small boxes and attaching them to the stud around the metal plate already attached to the stud.

[The Tasmanian]

I reckon build a little box Barney - it sounds like a smart way of doing it

[Senad]

When I built my place I used mounting blocks on all power points and switches. When the plastering/mdf-ing of walls was done, cables were pulled through holes just big enough to accomodate them and then caulked around them. Mounting blocks were used to make enough space between the wall and the surface of PP and switches to fit the protruding cables in. The mounting blocks are screwed into the wall cladding (plasterboard and/or anything else you're using) and the top plate of PPs/switches screw straight into mounting blocks. If you're using plasterboard only you need some raw plugs ( http://compare.ebay.com.au/like/1708936 ... eItemTypes ) to ensure safe fastening of the mounting blocks. I had MDF on my walls, so I just went straight into that.
This is a much more efficient way of doing it than using the conventional 80X50mm cutout (or whatever the size is).
This leaves you with a huge hole to caulk.
Many studios that want to minimise holes in their walls, bring the power cable into a room through a single whole and then distribute the power within the room via surface-mount conduits. I considered doing this, but it just doesn';t look good with pipes running all over your walls.

[Barney Loveland]

Thanks for the replies. It's given me some food for thought. I think i'll make 'boxes' out of 2 sheets of yellow tongue glued and screwed together, slightly bigger than a pp. Drilled to fit cable through back one, the top one can have the rout for back of pp. This will be attached to the stud instead of the metal plates. It'll keep it all flush and be easy to seal. And screwing the pp in will sandwich it all together.