How to fill gaps around sockets installed on uneven natural stone tiles ?

[pc1966]

Cheers mate , think I'll have to give this a go

Be VERY careful here. It is easy for hot sparks thrown off the disk to cause permanent damage to other surfaces, including glass, etc, and that could be expensive. Of course you would have PPE for yourself, but really you need to be covering everything within a few meters of the cutting location.

 

[brianmoooore]

Be VERY careful here. It is easy for hot sparks thrown off the disk to cause permanent damage to other surfaces, including glass, etc, and that could be expensive. Of course you would have PPE for yourself, but really you need to be covering everything within a few meters of the cutting location.

Very true! Reminds me of the time when a tiler I was working with was working on the kitchen. He removed one of those pyramid shaped GU10 halogen fittings from under a wall unit and placed it on the worktop while he tiled behind it. Unfortunately, the GU10 was lit, and although laminate worktops are heat resistant, they're not much contest for a 50W halogen in almost contact.
Expensive day for the tiler!.

 

[brianmoooore]

The fashion for those brick sized bevel edged tiles also present a problem when screwing back fittings.

 

[ferg]

Fast fix box and then grout in the gaps where the back box can be seen?
Not ideal by a long way but makes your stuff good and passes on the difficult bit to someone else.

 

[brianmoooore]

Fast fix box and then grout in the gaps where the back box can be seen?
Not ideal by a long way but makes your stuff good and passes on the difficult bit to someone else.

That's what I do with the bevelled tiles if possible. Wait till the worktop's in, then fix the boxes with the centres in the middle of a tile vertically and along a joint horizontally.
Needs a strong fitting, since the fixing screws will be pulling into a gap