In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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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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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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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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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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Did you ever take care of your photos, Brenda?
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Originally posted by 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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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
I was talking just about the paddle switches.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Did you ever take care of your photos, Brenda?
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
I tried last week but my right hand was shaking badly, then I screwed up something, then on top of that I couldn't remember how to get into my USB stick. So, I have given up for a bit.
Also have make my instructions into one cohesive thing that I can understand. My instructions are on several pieces of paper and that confuses me.
Hopefully, I will get up the courage to try again and just hope I didn't screw up my book either.
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Lazy and a musical Sunday around me.
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You shouldn't worry about having screwed up your book. The only thing you could have done to it is delete it, but that would have to be a very unfortunate random sequents of button presses to get that to happen.
And even if it did, you've got a backup.
Let me know if you need any help.
I think I just finally finished moving my millions and millions of files around today.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Got all my electric stuff now, but I'm going to get a length of flex conduit tomorrow. I really don't think that I have enough on hand for the job and I don't want to be stuck in the middle of the job wishing I had more.
No way around it, I'm going to have to make some kleets on the wall to help keep the cabinet in position. I might get away without having to do that on the medicine cabinet since it's light and there is so much wood everywhere to screw into where that's going, but there's zero chance I still have it in me to be holding that thing up against the wall with one hand while trying to screw it in with the other.
I'm going to need to build the "skeleton" of the electric before I affix anything to the wall too, so it's not like I can just do one box and move on or wait until later to get the flex. I don't want to mess with the integrity of the wall at all, so all the knockouts have to be knocked out while it's not in the wall, and I don't want to be trying to add flex attachments to the thing while it's attached to the wall either, if that's even possible. So until all the wiring is done and I've had a chance to test that it all works, everything is just hanging where it lies. Only then do I attach the two boxes to the drywall.
I gotta get in there with some painters tape and start marking off some measurements with it. I still have no idea how high I need to go with any of this. I can't be cutting out holes for electric until I know all of that to the 1/8".
At least I know what I'm doing now thanks to this video:
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Beautiful. 64GB version is done. I still have to verify that all the files are good, which is easy enough to do since I mirrored the build as I was going along. Should be able to just set and forget that for a few hours. Looks like a burn takes only about 25 minutes to fit on a device that costs about $3 today.
I think I'm kind of... done.
Huh...
I wonder what I'm going to do with all of that free time now.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Took some time out to go to a Greek festival this year.
Food!
Music!
Dancing!
Beer and wine!
OPA!
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