With all the nods to @cynd11 and her original design I made a lightswitch cover to a) replace the ugly plastic one, and b) cover the hole in the plaster the original installers made
Et voila!
Needs brass screws
Entirely made of Birch plywood from GS2 Awards.
The face is sanded and finished with tung oil/mineral oil mix. The edging is sanded, coloured orange with a marker, and then a mahogany polyurethane over the top to get me that deep orangy colour that looks fabulous.
Oooo, very nice! I’m flattered that you liked my design. What I did about the screws is just painted them with some brass-colored paint (Vintaj Patina). Or you could try opaque acrylic markers.
Great job! Question: Is there a metal backing to this? Just wondering safety-wise. With having 2 uncles former lifetime firefighters, I feel obligated to ask. haha
It never occured to me the fire mitigation aspect, makes perfect sense. I always assumed it was to prevent snapping the bridge between the duplex outlets - mainly because I did that to one I had carefully crafted.
There was another thread where someone here who was an electrician and I were were discussing some other info I had found online about this topic. But I can’t find that thread.
The foil presents another barrier, which would give a few minutes additional resistance. Better than nothing… Wired correctly, there is very little possibility of fire danger in that gangbox. Most of them are a polymer, that is closer to fuel than aluminum.
I’d love someone to chime in to confirm if foil or something would work, like an electrician… (I think @brokendrum or @RyanD and I thought there were a couple other people. I cannot remember who it was that I was talking with in that old post, still can’t find it. lol)
As someone who has more than my share of “things that typically never happen” happen (LOL), I don’t play the odds. lol I was planning to make a switch cover with one of the UL approved plates as a backer.
