Light Switch On Pocket Door Wall

Pocket doors could make it difficult to put a light switch exactly where you want it.

Light switch on pocket door wall.

I m installing double pocket doors and would like to install a 3 switch box next to the opening of the wall. Light switches in a pocket door wall. My expectation when opening a door either hinged or pocket is that the switch is inside on the strike side of the door. If your familiar with pocket doors these are walls that contain 2x4 split studs to accommodate the doors.

More about the placement of light and fan switches in one particular bathroom here. Today i am installing a pocket door frame in an existing wall that happens to be for our guest bathroom. If you were standing in the bathroom in front of the door you could turn the switch on with your left hand and slide the pocket door open or closed with your right. The existing bathroom door swung to the right as you.

I installed a motion sensor light switch in my home office due to pocket doors causing the original switch to be at the end of the wall. Sometimes it makes more sense to place a light switche outside the door rather than inside. We just build the wall a little thicker so that there s room for electrical wiring switches and outlets. We have a pocket door between the bathroom and the master bedroom.

One downside to the pocket door is that it often leaves little room for anything else in the wall such as plumbing or electrical such as outlets or switches so careful planning is required. The bathroom pictured above comes from. Would prefer to not shore out the walls thicker or have an exterior switch box. Mount the pocket door to the surface of the existing wall then the plumbing won t be an issue.

Strike side location would avoid the pocket door completely. You can either use a standard pocket and drywall it in or go with a barn style sliding door and surface mount the hardware to the exterior of the wall and the door stays exposed on the wall. More about putting a light switch in a wall with a pocket door here. Many people falsely believe that you cannot have any wiring electrical outlets or electrical switches in the pocket wall but we have a nifty trick.

In most cases i ve worked out the wiring switch plug locations away from the pocket frame areas. Our switch is in the bathroom on the opposite wall from the one the pocket door slides into.