Can you fill a largish hole in plaster board?

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Our ekectrician- despite being given exact plans- has put the electric points in the wrong place.

One is directly behind the cooker so needs removing.

The wall is plaster boar. As it is uneven behind the builder put up a false wall.

The electrician can't do building work, builder wont come back or discuss it as he "won't be blamed".

The kitchen and cooker has all gone in now. I am worried that this is going to be a huge job. Or conversely a tiny job not worth anyone doing.

Thanks for any help.

I would be asking your electrician to sort this out on your behalf, he had plans and messed up. My dp is a plasterer and if he messed up something he couldnt fix he would have to get it sorted!!
We think one of our light holes us in the wrong place and my dp said he would fill it so it must be possible but he isn't here to ask! Maybe call and few plasterers and then send the bill to the electrician.

How large is the hole approximately?

Should be fine. We had to have a large hole cut in plasterboard to repair radiator pipe and our decorator sorted and you would never know.

Most electricians know other tradesmen so I would tell him he needs to arrange someone to fix it at his expenses.

We managed it when in student digs after a housemate came home very drunk and threw a dumbbell at the wall (no it wasn't me).

Probably not the advised method but plugged the hole with scrunched up newspaper, then used polyfiller to smooth over the gaps. Took several thin coats. Then sanded and painted. Looked fine.

Thanks. It is the size of a double socket.

He says the builder did the measurements so his fault. Builder says it's our fault as we should have checked his measurements. Which is what he has said about every mistake he has made unfortunately. It is our fault for not checking.

Yes! I had this exact question yesterday (questioned myself). I just looked up a video on YouTube and seems simple enough if you have the tools. Seems like you can buy kits for this specific job as well. Although, I agree with PP that your electrician should sort it.

A plumber did this when he fixed a leak that he could access more easily via the plaster-boarded wall on the other side of the bathroom, rather than by removing tiles in the bathroom. It was quite a large hole, about 20cm x 40cm.

He cut a piece of plasterboard to fit the hole, and attached battens to the back, extending out on only two opposite sides. He put a screw in the middle to use as a handle. He put glue on the battens and levered the 'thing' into the hole, and pulled forward on the handle until the glue held. Then he removed the handle and filled the hole and the crevice around the repair.

A decorator then replastered and redecorated the wall. It was in the centre of a very visible wall, and you cannot see any trace of it now.

As above but don't bother with glue, just screw through the plasterboard in to the end of the batten. An easier way is to cut a piece of batten about 3 or 4'' larger than the hole, put it in the hole so both ends are bearing on the board from the inside, screw through the plasterboard from the face side in to the batten ends and then cut and screw (to the batten) a piece of plasterboard in to the hole.

Yes, he would have done it that way (board larger than hole) but because of the plumbing there wasn't the space to put the board in on the diagonal and rotate it.

You can buy a mesh tape called scrim tape to give the area strength and something for the plaster to hold onto. Then just polyfiller over it. I did this recently myself and you’d never know there was a hole

You say the socket has to be removed.

Why does it have to be removed?

Having a cooker in front of it does not make it dangerous

It is an Everhot so it is heating the socket up I think? The Fitter said it needed to go. If it doesn't need to go I will be very glad. Do you think it can stay?

It doesn't look very nice though!

Checking the replies with interest because we have just taken the tiles off in the kitchen of the house we moved into and they had stuck tiles onto bare plasterboard in one place for some inexplicable reason. when the tiles came off they ripped a football sized hole in the plasterboard!

...off to google scrim tape.

Even if it does need to go, won’t the cookerbe hiding it? If it’s a double docket sized hole and was being hidden I’d probably fill it full of ready made filler from b&q and paint over it.

Is the cooker in place?

unless the cables are being removed, they will need to be joined inside the backbox with a connection block and a blanking plate fitted.

I don't know what the temperature of the back of your oven will be.

Cooker doesn't hide it, it is above it.

I really don't want a blanking plate, it will look so ugly. I have spent every penny of my savings on the kitchen, I'm so pissed off!

The socket is directly above the vent from the back of the cooker. So there is an induction ring about 2 inches away from it.

Oh no, worst place ever. Yes, it would look awful with a plate over it and you’ll have to move/get rid of it as it won’t meet safety standards having it so close to the hob.

Can you put a up a splasback which would vivef the hole?