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Instead of flush mounting the electrical floor outlets a contractor recessed them about 1/2″ deep. Then brass framed covers with a piece of flooring inlaid were installed over the recesses. These covers stick up from 1/8″-1/4″ above the floor surface. My job should I choose to accept it is to make flush mount covers. Yes, each 4″x7″ hole is diferent and irregular. I was thinking of making a form out of plastic film in the recess and pouring an epoxy into it but museums dont like chemical offgassing near the art.
Any ideas would be most apreciated.
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Phil, just a guess, but would it be useful to make the 4x7 openings identical using a template and a router?
I'm not sure I understand what you want to achieve with the epoxy ... are you filling the cavity around the electrical boxes to support the new covers?
Any chance you can use a router to cut a recess into the underside of the covers provided by the original contractor, permitting the covers to drop to floor level, or use your router to recess a lip around the perimeter of the floor, or both of the above?
Good luck, Steve
*Phil,We do like Steve suggested. We mortise the brass cover in flush with the floor or the top of the desk or whatever. The plate usually has a bevel on the edges, and it makes for a dust trap, but you can't trip on it.Are these wood floor? Marble? Ed. Williams
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Steve and Ed, Thanks for the advice. The covers are presently sitting on the floor over the recessed outlets. Routing out the floor say, 3/16" would bring the covers flush with the floor.
These covers that the contractor made not only fit over the outlet recess they also fit inside so that a piece of the flooring to match is put into the frame. It's kinda like a frame with a recess which is about as deep as the floor is thick. This brings up the next problem, if the floor is routed to sit the covers flush, the bottom of the cover will hit the outlet cover and not allow it to go down far enough. Also there are two types of wood floor and two types of stone; one being slate of all things.
Looks like its time for entirely new covers made to fit into these holes properly.
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Instead of flush mounting the electrical floor outlets a contractor recessed them about 1/2" deep. Then brass framed covers with a piece of flooring inlaid were installed over the recesses. These covers stick up from 1/8"-1/4" above the floor surface. My job should I choose to accept it is to make flush mount covers. Yes, each 4"x7" hole is diferent and irregular. I was thinking of making a form out of plastic film in the recess and pouring an epoxy into it but museums dont like chemical offgassing near the art.
Any ideas would be most apreciated.