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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Ratkin about 1 month ago
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.
Imagine about 1 month ago
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!”
jasonsnakelover about 1 month ago
I have switches in the house I live in that do that.
rekam Premium Member about 1 month ago
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.
BigBoy about 1 month ago
Don’t forget to put the ‘gotcha’ note inside when you install it
Zykoic about 1 month ago
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!
jahays1 about 1 month ago
Every house has one. There is one in my office area – maintenance guy doesn’t know what it’s for.
derdave969 about 1 month ago
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.
ladykat about 1 month ago
LOL!
kv450 about 1 month ago
We have two of them
wisswiss Premium Member about 1 month ago
It took several years to find that the mystery switch controlled an outdoor light.
mindjob about 1 month ago
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
comixbomix about 1 month ago
Wish I had a buck for every time I’ve hired this guy…
BlueCreek Premium Member about 1 month ago
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.
strandedonearth Premium Member about 1 month ago
“Friends” – IYKYK
John Lustig (Last Kiss) creator about 1 month ago
I had one of those switches recently in a hotel room.
PoodleGroomer about 1 month ago
Be sure to run a tail of wire up the wall into the attic floorboards.
rickseg about 1 month ago
Put a Phil Rizzuto “Holy cow” bobble head in there.
Bellboy about 1 month ago
Current humor.
Bill The Nuke about 1 month ago
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?
Bill The Nuke about 1 month ago
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.
Escapee about 1 month ago
I have one that controls an outlet on the other side of the house!! Lotsa fun finding that out!
drivingfuriously Premium Member about 1 month ago
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.
Mike Baldwin creator about 1 month ago
Good one!
ekke about 1 month ago
The house I’m in now? It took us 5 YEARS to figure out the last of the switches.
Lablubber about 1 month ago
Connect it to a recording saying please speak verification code to abort destruct sequence.
James Lindley Premium Member about 1 month ago
We have one of those switches in our basement. We have no idea what it goes to.
purepaul about 1 month ago
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.
cuzinron47 about 1 month ago
I have one too. I don’t bother with it, I just leave nothing on.
Chris Sherlock about 1 month ago
Every home should have one.
FunnyReader - 2022 Premium Member about 1 month ago
In several rooms. Ug
Taracinablue about 1 month ago
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.