Is It Okay To Put Kingspan Insulation Behind An Electrical Socket?

Rodge2 | 08:51 Thu 02nd Dec 2021 | Home & Garden

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We have a small porch with a dwarf wall. The cavity had no insulation inside it. I have been cutting Kingspan board and slipping it into the cavity. All going well, but I have fitted a piece into the cavity behind an electrical socket (professionally installed), and now I'm wondering if that is safe. Should I have left a gap there?

Thanks for any advice.

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The Builder

Absolutely fine. Not a good idea to break the continuity in the insulation.

Sockets don't get that warm. :o)

Atheist

If you're only insulating a dwarf wall, there will be very little improvement in the overall porch insulation; if you were to omit a small bit behind the socket it wouldn't really matter much, so if there's any doubt you could just not do that bit. Are you going to insulate the porch roof?

Rodge2

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Thanks both for your advice. Yes the roof has been insulated.

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