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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

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Sunday, June 7, 2026 12:10 AM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by Brenda:
Looking good SIX. That light switch you showed you can find them up here all over the place but mostly in newer buildings.



Oh, really? They're probably in newer buildings here too then. I know that under-the-cabinet lighting has become the new thing, so I wouldn't be surprised to see this type of stuff built into the new houses.

My solution is going to be quite a bit different. The one benefit those switches have is that they'd be under the cabinets in the hollow space where you wouldn't normally see them. There's nowhere I can put my switch that will be hidden. So I've just bought a plastic junction box that I'll need to screw a hole into the back side for the electric that I'll be sticking out of the wall for it. Even found me a nice white metal cover, unopened, that has the wide rectangle opening for a paddle switch. I'll paint both the box and the cover. I'm not going to paint the paddle switch.

You're only going to have about a 1" clearance for your fingers on that switch when it's done. The paddle will end up very close to the wall. So not exactly hidden, but I figure if I paint it the same lighter grey as the walls that it should blend in nicely and not look so much like a part of the cabinet as it would if I painted it the darker grey that I used on the cabinets.

This is all going to work. I just need to do it now is all.

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I'm sure they are. I've seen them in numerous new buildings or buildings that have had some remodeling done. When my boss and her husband added a shower to the basement bathroom, they put in paddle switches. Every where else in the house has toggle switches.

You definitely are the man with a plan.

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Sunday, June 7, 2026 12:43 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Oh... were you just talking about the paddle switches themselves, Brenda?

I thought you meant the whole $60 aluminum enclosure that I wasn't going to pay that much for.




Oh yeah... I LOVE those paddle switches. I even have two that still glow faintly orange in the dark with a little LED they've got in there for the master bedroom and the bathroom switches. Installed them way over 10 years ago and nice to see they still light up like that.

I even spring the extra money for the "screwless" plates. They're two parts. The part underneath is where you screw the screws into the outlet, and then the other piece is just flat and snaps in over the switch. Then I also make sure all my plug outlets are the big single rounded rectangles instead of two separate circles, so they all fit in the same plates and they all look the same.


We had paddles in my grandma and grandpa's trailer at one of those Yogi Bear parks when I was a kid, and I'd never seen them anywhere else back then.

Not every switch in my house is a paddle switch. Just the rooms I've finished. Eventually they all will be.



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Sunday, June 7, 2026 1:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Did you ever take care of your photos, Brenda?

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