Metallics WGD100 Gasket Insul Foam GFI Decor PE (Box 100)

The WGD100 is the GFI/Decora cutout, so it suits GFCI receptacles and Decora style rocker switches and devices. Metallics makes the foam gasket in three cutout designs: toggle switch, duplex receptacle, and GFI or Decora. If the device behind the plate is a standard two-plug duplex or a toggle switch, you need one of the other two cutouts, not this one.

Box of 100 gaskets, and 100 count is the order minimum, so you buy it as a full box rather than piece by piece. For a property manager sealing a building's exterior-wall devices that works out, but it is more than a one-outlet repair needs. Metallics does offer other sizes and quantities by request.

Yes on both counts. The WGD100 insulating foam gaskets are flagged Buy American compliant and ARRA compliant, with country of origin the United States. That is the paperwork a government, school, or federally funded healthcare project usually asks for before the submittal goes through.

They seal the gap between the device box and the wall plate on exterior walls, where air leaks through outlets and switches and carries heat or cooling with it. The Metallics gasket is close-cell polyethylene insulating foam, UL Rated, and it goes on behind the cover plate to cut that infiltration. It is an air-seal part, not a safety device and not a replacement for a weather-resistant cover.

No. The WGD100 is a single GFI/Decora cutout gasket, so a two-gang plate needs two gaskets, one per device opening. Count your exterior-wall device openings, not your plates, when you figure quantity out of the box of 100.

The box runs 0.48 lbs and measures 7.25 by 6.25 by 6 inches (length, width, height). Light enough that a crew can carry several boxes on a retrofit sweep, and small enough to toss in a van bin.