Completed the outlet covers

Ever since having the house painted about a year ago we have been rocking the no outlet / switch covers on anything look to our house which I needed to fix before a sleepover party for my daughter.
:glowforge: to the rescue for about 40 different plates…




Now we can have guests over again.

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Those are beautiful!

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Haha—great job!

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Those turned out cute!

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Just got new wiring done in the house. I should have done this to save cost of plates lol. Looks great

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Those are very cool! much better than the store-bought kind.

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Love them all, especially the turtle in the middle!

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Home improvement projects with the :glowforge: are always fun, Congratulations!

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Nice job! The last minute, what would we do without it?

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mahalo @deirdrebeth @cynd11 @rvogt @wenning08 @rappee25407 @ellencadwell @reynoso

You’re right! If there was no hard deadline I don’t know that I would’ve gotten around to it! It’s great that it’s done, but they have always been too many other projects that have taken precedent to making the house look finished!

What’s great is that we have some outlets that have larger holes than standard outlets, or just have messy drywall, and I just made slightly larger ones for those!

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Us too. And some of ours are single switches, while others are double, depending on whether we have a ceiling fan or not, so being able to make them on the GF is a good idea. Someday…

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Need a Rotating turtle shell for those dimmer knobs!

Heads down rabbit hole :slight_smile:

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Except we have rockers and no dimmers, so we don’t have any knobs. But turtle shells may be really cool to replace knobs on drawers! Those would be cute in the bathroom!

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One tip for someone else looking to do this - if you go on the mcmaster.com website, you can look at outlet covers and they typically have downloadable CAD files (dxf) that you can use to get the spacing, hole sizes, and dimensions. For example: McMaster-Carr
You can either look at the dimensions shown on their drawing, or download the drawing. They have this for many of their products, and it has been a great companion to the glowforge.

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I can’t bring myself to use light switch plates that aren’t code compliant.

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Thanks for the tip, didn’t know they had that and I’ve been looking for some drawings of standard outlet stuff to work on a few projects.

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The only thing required to make it “code compliant” is a layer of tinfoil or aluminium tape on the back.

The standard says “noncombustible” but everyone on this forum knows that plastic burns.

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My home still has plenty of plastic outlet covers that have been there for 50+ years when my dad updated the electric at the time we moved in(new heavier wire, new circuits, breakers instead of fuses, etc.) and no problems since we’re meticulous about how things get replaced when needed.

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Almost every house does - despite plastic’s ability to burn :slight_smile:

Wood is prettier!

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Very Nice. Wood doesn’t melt! And as long as you don’t use Zebrawood, there are several species that don’t burn well either.

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