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Just a Broken Cover Plate Eh? One of the switches in my house had a broken cover plate but when I opened it up I got a nasty surprise. Someone managed to drill a hole in the back and thread a cable in. O_o Oh and there's a buried handy box on the left for some reason. I plan to replace this with a proper three gang box and split up the switches so that the side light is on it's own switch. I'll post a updated pic of this when I get a chance to fix the thing. Keywords: Miscellaneous

Just a Broken Cover Plate Eh?

One of the switches in my house had a broken cover plate but when I opened it up I got a nasty surprise. Someone managed to drill a hole in the back and thread a cable in. O_o Oh and there's a buried handy box on the left for some reason. I plan to replace this with a proper three gang box and split up the switches so that the side light is on it's own switch.

I'll post a updated pic of this when I get a chance to fix the thing.

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TiCoune66   [Jun 10, 2012 at 03:23 AM]


This is exactly the expression I have at the moment, the face, the hand, everything xD I see some cheesy looking connections on the brown-ish switch, and am I seeing things or this switch has two wires on each screw? o.O That's a big code violation!

Well that's the sort of stuff I saw many times in the past!
joe_347V   [Jun 10, 2012 at 04:12 AM]
Yeah, Laughing and yep that brown switch does have two wires on each screw too Shocked but still I wonder who decided to stuff a handy box in and then patch up the wall Mad and don't get me started on the hole on the back. Rolling Eyes
SeanB~1   [Jun 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM]
At least they used wire nuts, not just tape.......... You will probably find the covered box has more wiring in it. Drywall repair time coming up.
streetlight98   [Jun 10, 2012 at 02:46 PM]
How come two wires on a screw is a violation? And what are the differences between handy boxes and juction boxes? They look the same to me...
A_lights   [Jun 10, 2012 at 06:22 PM]
two wires cant stay on one screw well, so a pigtail is necessary
joe_347V   [Jun 11, 2012 at 02:57 AM]
Yeah, the correct way would be to pigtail but I've seen others use to stab in connector for the second wire or strip the wire in the middle.
GullWhiz   [Jun 11, 2012 at 09:40 PM]
Stab in connector is "OK" but not recommended..
joe_347V   [Jun 12, 2012 at 09:43 PM]
Yeah, I avoid using stab-in connectors or even those push-in wire nuts you seen in the store now.
GullWhiz   [Jun 13, 2012 at 01:05 PM]
There are types of receptacles that has screw clamps and you can put 2 wires per screw on! They are the higher quality ones and are labeled as "prefered" instead of "standard" in Home Depot
A_lights   [Jun 13, 2012 at 05:47 PM]
Yes I know what your talking about,I used them when I added plugs for the lighting in my basement they're nice because you don't have to loop the wires at all
joe_347V   [Jun 14, 2012 at 06:00 PM]
Yeah, the GFCI outlets I installed had those connectors too, oddly the premium outlets sold here don't have the screw clamps, in fact they only have screw terminals on them.

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