A thread about anything – questions, tips, jokes, things to show off or take joy in – going on inside your domicile.
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I still have to fix that solitary upside-down switch in my living room.
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Cutest handrail on the planet.
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This has unfortunately reminded me of something I had completely forgotten about myself.
I generally don’t care nearly enough to do anything about it, but given a choice, I prefer my slotted screwheads to be indexed horizontally.
So they don’t… y’know… spill.
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Yeah, I’m gonna walk into that.
Thanks 
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Things a 3d printer is handy for: making “molly guards” for the light switch that runs both the lights in the room and the outlet that the deep freezer is plugged into:
No, this didn’t get installed after walking in to find that the deep freezer had been shut off for a couple days and that several hundred bucks worth of food had thawed and had to be tossed… More. Than. Once. /bitter sarcasm
(the third or fourth time also killed the unit itself right and proper, and the only replacement was a chest freezer with half the capacity. :: grumps :: The chest freezer is plugged into the other outlet on that receptacle, which I discovered is not switched. the mollyguard stays.)
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Good to learn that cover exists! But I’m sorry to hear about your losses.
I had a similar experience when I was in the habit of laying freshly folded laundry atop the electrical cord going to my small freezer. I could see whenever the weight was growing enough to start pulling the cord out of the socket, BUT, one day I left a pile of towels on the cord that wasn’t all that big, but was big enough to gradually pull it out. Which is what happened, as I discovered three days later. Ugh.
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I hadn’t heard that term before. I’m just used to calling them switch guards. I did find the etymology amusing.
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Tried so hard to find the applause emoji!
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I should get something like that for the (currently unlabeled) furnace cutoff switch.
In my new place living room, there’s a wall switch that controls only the top plug of a receptacle in the corner. Weird, but handy. I have a lamp in the top one, and a radio on the bottom.
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Furnace cutoff switch?
Grab the label maker and label the switch right now!
You think that you’ll be the only person who will ever flip that switch and will do it intentionally, but you’re wrong. In every possible iteration of the scenario.
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A postit note for now. I should also put a sign by the furnace (down in the crawlspace) that the switch is up in the laundry room. 
I finally went down into the crawlspace (5’). The previous owner-buggers didn’t clean out the stuff that they were told to: large buckets of paint or possibly floor-tile glue. I’d better get that out of there!
The interesting cobweb of extension cords and droplights needs work too.
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Is this a subtle way of owning up to not having a label maker?
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Just thinking about that makes me lightheaded 
Though in the kitchen and pantry I tend to use painters tape and a sharpie
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Yeah, that’s no way to live.
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I dumped my failing Brother laser printer in the move, and haven’t replaced it yet.
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That’s only technically a label maker anyway.
Brother makes excellent label makers, and the tapes even survive the dishwasher.
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