Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for May 10, 2024

We have one of those. It used to control the pool pump when we had a pool, but we filled in the pool after the kids left. One of my best decisions.

I have one that I switch on and off every time I come home. The other day I got a phone call from a woman in Korea saying “Stop that!”

We had a switch like that in one bedroom when we moved in. Hubby removed it and put a plate there so there wouldn’t be a hole in the wall.

Don’t forget to put the ‘gotcha’ note inside when you install it

I got one of those! Electrician abandoned a circuit but forgot to take the switch out. Think to label it “destruct”.

I always wanted some remote noise maker in a wall as a joke. But I always get voted down. On almost every concrete project I embed a time capsule of sorts. Old cell phones, a favorite. The new city concrete wall in my street just got one recently. You got to think of future archeologists!

Every house has one. There is one in my office area – maintenance guy doesn’t know what it’s for.

Wife and I were rearranging yesterday. Decided to move some lamps and such to a different outlet. Nothing in the new outlet worked. I figured it was one controlled by a wall switch. Tried every switch in a three room radius. Could not get the outlet to work. Now I’m wondering if the house is going to burn down from an electrical fault.

LOL!

We have two of them

It took several years to find that the mystery switch controlled an outdoor light.

We had plugs in every room in the new house for cable TV and land line phones. It took me a while to patch them all up. Obsolete technology

Wish I had a buck for every time I’ve hired this guy…

Our house has 4 of them. When we had the house built they wired every ceiling fan with 2 lines – one to power the fan and a separate one to power a built in light fixture. None of our fans have lights attached so we have 4 blank switches.

“Friends” – IYKYK

I had one of those switches recently in a hotel room.

Be sure to run a tail of wire up the wall into the attic floorboards.

Put a Phil Rizzuto “Holy cow” bobble head in there.

Current humor.

Remember the commercial where a guy is flipping a switch in his garage on and off and his neighbor’s garage door keeps opening and closing on their car?

We moved into this house over a year ago and there’s one switch by the door to the garage that is doing that. I know it has power but that’s it. I also found that there’s a hidden fusebox between the clothes dryer and the breaker panel.

I have one that controls an outlet on the other side of the house!! Lotsa fun finding that out!

I moved three years ago. I found a dead plug in the utility room, I pulled it and reconnected the ground, still dead. I keep forgetting to check it when I’m in the crawlspace.

I have another plug that is connected to two breakers, when I tried to figure this out, I noticed two sharpie dots marking the two breakers. So somebody knew two circuits are connected and are live with only one breaker turned on, and did nothing. The good news is LED lights draw less power. I have 133 other things to finish before I can start something new.

Good one!

The house I’m in now? It took us 5 YEARS to figure out the last of the switches.

Connect it to a recording saying please speak verification code to abort destruct sequence.

We have one of those switches in our basement. We have no idea what it goes to.

The heating tech in our office did that to a manager named Rebbeca because all winter she kept changing the setting to match how warmly she dressed. We’d shiver one day and roast the next. She felt in control which suited her.

I have one too. I don’t bother with it, I just leave nothing on.

Every home should have one.

In several rooms. Ug

The house I live in, a parsonage, was built in the mid 1800s and entirely renovated in ’97. While the project was led by a contractor in the church, most of the labor was done by volunteer church people, including, apparently, some of the wiring. The overhead light in what is now my room works fine, but the switch slowly got harder to turn on. When I was a teenager we used to wedge something under the switch to put enough pressure on it. Now I just use floor lamps instead.