Plug sockets + uneven tiles, what am I looking for?

My wife fell in love with some “rustic” tiles for our kitchen when i fitted it, and then insisted that this very amateur tiler lay them in a herringbone pattern, after whole sentences made of nothing but swear words i got there, but, we have some silver sockets and oven switches that look great, but along the length of the tile, there can be a few mm in the depth of the tile as the edges are not flat.

As such, there is gaps between the socket and the tile in places. I don’t really want to go down the clear silicon sealant route if i can help it, but does anyone know if you can get something like this gasket:

https://www.electricalcounter.co.uk/click-dp096gy-deco-plus-grey-2-gang-10mm-gasket?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAyJS7BhBiEiwAyS9uNUh0idGPkMPXMvmKo19fb4b2B972yuqPntnwSQep_4zwTc7umMsb2RoCZbYQAvD_BwE

But not as deep at 10mm and made of a silicon or more flexible material so it can be “squeezed”?

Or any other ideas?

Something like this? 2.5mm thick

https://www.downlightsdirect.co.uk/click-deco-gaskets.html#click-deco-2-gang-gasket-black

https://www.downlightsdirect.co.uk/click-deco-grey-gaskets.html#click-deco-grey-gasket-2-gang

Thanks Stumpy, strange how no amount of Googling i could find thinner ones, i think they are still a rigid plastic? Do you know if they do anything that is a flexible material so that as you nip up the screws it may confirm to the tile ridges a bit?

snap on wife insisting on herringbone for our kitchen with similar sounding tiles 🙂

tooks ages but does look smart

luckily we don’t have sockets on the tiled section, if we did I’d probably use the same coloured grout or caulk – there is a risk it will crack with movement but it probably won’t in my experience.  mapei do coloured silcones which are a fairly decent match to their grout if you used that product.   It’ll make replacing the socket a little more of a pain but its not something you will be doing any time soon

Thanks DT78, i used a silver grey Mapei grout and the matching silicon bead around the top of worktop, but like most amateurs i hate blinkin silicon, so wondered if there was another way out of the problem!

Its a messy job for sure.  I use a cramer fugi kit, makes an amateur look pretty good – my silicon is better than most professional jobs I see.  That said, if it looks crap I wipe it out and do it again before it dries so I probably take 10 times as long

Double sided rubber tape. Like what number plates are stuck on with. Stick it to the very cleaned tiles overlaping the socket plate footprint.

Snug the socket plate down nicely.

With a very sharp (ie scalpel not rusty Stanley) stroke the blade aling the edges.

Can probably achieve something similar with a rolled sausage of sugru.

But basically fit it messy then tidy up.

Actually you can even use the silicone, if you mix it with something you can make a sugru type material.

Edit: its cornflour you mix it with, 50:50

Also if you tiles are porus, making tape down first the once its cured cut through to overspill and the tape and peel away.

snap on wife

Blimey, you can get anything from Snap-On. Expensive though…

Expanding foam tape?
https://www.expandingfoamtape.co.uk/

Thanks Leffeboy, not seen that before, ordered some to have a try..