Dry Lining Socket Box

[Bert]

I have been advised to get a plasterboard socket box to put a double socket in a bedroom where there is a single socket at the moment. The present socket has an 'ordinary' metal socket box, 25 mm deep. I have an ordinary metal double socket box 25 mm deep. Is there any reason I should not use it? What's the difference between a dry lining box and and ordinary one - apart from the price?

[The Builder]

Use the metal 2-gang box by all means Bert. Just remember that it's good practice to connect the little connector inside to earth.

The plasterboard boxes (drylining) simply clip into the plasterboard with no need for screws and fixings.

[bookbinder]

A metal socket box (2-gang or 1-gang) is fine if there is a solid wall behind the plasterboard to screw it to. If, however, there is just a space, between two plasterboard walls, then a plasterboard box (which The Builder has mentioned, and is made of plastic) is the thing to use. It clips into the aperture that you cut in the plasterboard.