I’ve done plenty of home improvement work on two homes now, and I’d never do anything that kludgy. Get a proper two-outlet box and put the switches in it, then get the right cover.
My, so Soviet Apt. style dwelling. What? I’m just sayin… They put our Emergency Patients in a Tim Horton’s yesterday for God-sake’s! This isn’t the Blitz you know?
I want to take a power saw and go right down the middle of those two plates and watch the excess drop away. But I am aware that there are TWO things wrong with that… 1. The part of the one face plate that is BEHIND the other would continue being trapped behind it, because I assume it’s screwed on there pretty tight… and 2… there’s that who electricity problem… where am I going to find an outlet to power my saw? OH SNAP, I went there…
STUPID!!!!! The FAIL STAMP is all wrong!!!!!! The title says “Home Improvement FAIL”, yet the fail stamp says “Functional FAIL”!!!!!! BOTH TITLES SHOULD SAY THE SAME THING!!!!!! The person who edited the fail stamp is a complete idiot!!!!!!!
Now you can get turned on… TWICE
It’s great if there’s like 30 minutes between.
makeshift double switch.. I don’t see the fail..
It would go better in “There I Fixed It”
That’s what I was thinking.
I think it already has been in “There, I Fixed It”. This is definitely a kludge.
I’d say this an aesthetics fail. Presumably both switches function just fine.
I concur – nothing wrong with this – just looks a little different
+1
Functional win, aesthetics fail
+1
Bingo!
Chejka Style
It looks terrible but it’s functional.
Not really fail. Home-deprovement WIN
Crossposting fail.
“Save time and money by F’n it up, that’s the Home Depot!”
I’ve done plenty of home improvement work on two homes now, and I’d never do anything that kludgy. Get a proper two-outlet box and put the switches in it, then get the right cover.
Durr
+2. Completely functional.
The layered lightswitch look is soooooo 2005.
My, so Soviet Apt. style dwelling. What? I’m just sayin… They put our Emergency Patients in a Tim Horton’s yesterday for God-sake’s! This isn’t the Blitz you know?
A two-gang cover costs $1.20 at Home Depot – Just sayin’.
functionally, nothing wrong with it.
I want to take a power saw and go right down the middle of those two plates and watch the excess drop away. But I am aware that there are TWO things wrong with that… 1. The part of the one face plate that is BEHIND the other would continue being trapped behind it, because I assume it’s screwed on there pretty tight… and 2… there’s that who electricity problem… where am I going to find an outlet to power my saw? OH SNAP, I went there…
What, that’s better than having to join two sets of bare wires together to switch on and off, surely?!
STUPID!!!!! The FAIL STAMP is all wrong!!!!!! The title says “Home Improvement FAIL”, yet the fail stamp says “Functional FAIL”!!!!!! BOTH TITLES SHOULD SAY THE SAME THING!!!!!! The person who edited the fail stamp is a complete idiot!!!!!!!