need switch-switch-blank wallplate

Edward Reid · 2012-09-20T19:50:35+00:00

I'm helping a friend fix up some things in her house. A mystery switchturned out to have no wires attached. It was just being used to fillthe third hole in a three-gang wall plate. This is in a part of thehouse where a room had been added by a previous owner, thus the"homeowner job" quality control.I'd like to get rid of the mystery switch. I've searched at big boxstores and on the web, and I haven't found a wall plate that'sswitch+switch+blank. (Specifically, it needs to be ivory, and theswitches are toggle ... even though every other room in the house iswhite, rocker. Go figure.)Any idea where to find such a wall plate, or suggestions foralternatives?I've considered some possibilities. 1) Of course there's alwaysputting it back like it was, but I don't like mystery switches. 2) Icould try carefully trimming two wall plates to meet on a straightline, and if I were really good with a router, that might be the bestcourse, but I'm not that good. 3) I could convert this one room torocker switches to match the rest of the house, and possibly have abetter chance, though I had to go online even to find a duplexrocker+blank two-gang plate for a similar situation in another room.4) If I could find just a little plug to fill the toggle-switch-sizehole in the plate, I'd even be happy with that.5) I'm not sure if I looked for a switch+switch+outlet plate, justadding an outlet to fill the space, but it's in a bathroom and I thinkI'd need to use a GFCI outlet (and would therefore require aswitch+switch+rectangle plate), plus I'm not sure if I identified aneutral in the box. (I'm not there to look at it today.)Thanks,Edward

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DanG 13 years ago

Any good commercial electrical supply house can get whatever configuration ;you want. The unusual ones are not necessarily cheap.

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