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I always tell the plasterers that the cables are live even when they are not in an attempt to stop them filling the boxes and leaving a smooth wall and I have to find and clean out the boxes.
Alternatively it's box extensions and a blank plate fixed with security screws to stop the plasterer getting clever and removing them to make it easier for them, get some moans from the plasterer but am I bothered

Reminds me of a job about 35 years ago wired an 18 gang grid box on a commercial new build all the cables were marked with various nicks to identify them, the plasterer decided the cables were to long and cut them back so he could get them all in the box, the end result when we got back on site was one wall plastered completely flush with the switch box and 2 2g sockets lost in the plaster told the plasterer to find the boxes only to be told that was my job the ensuing argument as I was about to attack the wall with a hammer brought the site agent out of his office, while he was trying to mediate the project manager turned up on site once he was up to speed with the problem he called one of the plasterer's bosses to site once he found out that he was going to be back charged for belling out all the lighting cables and they would have to make good any damage finding the boxes the plasterer was told to get all his tools as he was being sacked with immediate effect
 
Dated enough that he is probably a 'specialist' and charging a lot for making a mess of a perfectly good ceiling, unlike the days when it was all the rage and every plasterer did it.
It's only become specialist as the artex has killed off most of the plasterers doing it as it contained asbestos possibly up until the late 90's. I knew a few plasterers that died with asbestosis all of them did the textured ceilings and walls without knowing the risks until it was too late
 
When I've had to leave live cables in a flush mounting box, which will be plastered, I've fitted a metal cover plate that is cut slightly smaller than the box, so it recesses in as far as the lugs. So there is no access to the cables inside. The cover plate cut from thin sheet metal with tin-snips, and I retrieve them afterwards to reuse.
Metal plate, live wires, and Plasterers, a bad mix Mate.
 

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