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My contractor's worker (son) cutout the drywall from around the outlet ears on my receptacles in each room. Apparently, he didn't know what he was doing… Now my outlets are loose in the wall. If I tighten them up they fall far behind the plates on the wall and are not flush. Its unsightly not to mention an big gap between the plate and the outlet…
Are there any brackets I can use to flush the outlets?
I wouldn't start cutting out chunks of drywall to fix a small area like that.
Take off the wall plate and remove any loose or crumbling drywall. Apply a piece of fiberglass tape over the area, mud, sand and repeat as necessary to get a blended finish. Then prime and paint to match.
The fiberglass tape is nice for repairs like this because you can stick it to the wall and then mud on top of, unlike paper tape which you need to apply on top of mud. I've fixed a bunch of similar defects like this and several years later there are no cracks and they look great.
You may be able to secure the boxes with something like these supports
This image shows two supports that need to be separated in the middle.
The support is grasped by one of the short, perpendicular legs. The longer end of the long leg is slid on an angle into the cavity vertically between the box and the vertical edge of the opening. Then the bottom end of the support (the shorter end of the long piece) is pushed in, slipped down and hooked behind the lower lip of the opening. The short perpendicular legs then stick out and are wrapped around from the outside edge of the box to the inside. The same is done on the other side. The box is then locked in place.
This assumes the box has "ears" at top and bottom that prevent the box from being pulled below the face of the wall.
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The cut outs should have been filled with mud. large spaces around the box would not meet building code requirements. The contractor should be repairing the problem.