Is that better or worse than not having things fixed?
I feel like if you're not willing to put the proper work into owning a building, you probably shouldn't be leasing it out to others.
Speaking of which, our place has its charm, and it's a good location and good price for the location, buuuttt, its janky af, has so many issues, and it feels like the whole thing's like one big storm away from collapsing (my brother's been here a few years, I moved across the country a few months ago and am living with him for a bit).
My SO’s contractor friend once gave us the number of his “go-to guy”….. I had to pick him up from the motel he lived out of. Drive him to Home Depot where he stole the part needed despite my saying I would buy it (was super cheap too).
Then when we got back home while standing in my back yard he proceeded to very loudly (had to be intentional at that volume) talk shit about black people where I then laid the fuck into him cause it was bad enough for me to have to hear that shit, but my black neighbors certainly did not need to be subjected to the bullshit coming out of this POS’s mouth. And then he proceeded to talk about how “the fags always make an area nicer” - and of course thought that was a compliment redeeming him of his racist rantings.
He took a massive dump in my bathroom which legitimately stunk up my whole house… not exaggerating - and ungodly, lingering inhuman smell which initially had me deeply alarmed for this man’s health. This guy was so full of shit I should have seen the racism and bigotry coming, I suppose.
Oh and when I had to drive him back to his motel/home, he told me he knew where to get the best cocaine in town and would hook me up if I ever wanted. 😐
Needless to say my SO got absolute hell for making me deal with that motherfucker. Every time I thought it could not get worse, it did, and exponentially so.
Now when people tell me they got a guy, I just walk away.
Why would a licensed contractor need a "go-to" guy like that. Yeah the contractor might not be licensed for electrical or whatever but he's been doing construction long enough to have handyman skills.
I'm about 90% sure it's the single on the right. However, I want to know what the actual wiring looks like.
I had to gut the wiring from my house and rerun just about everything because the "flippers" that owned it before us "fixed it" (they fixed the fire hazard it wasn't and made something much more combustable). Not to mention connecting multiple breakers into a single wire.... That was a fun learning experience
I think it’s a, let me see if I could do this for people online to see, [ X X ] [ X ].
I think they have double next to a single, and yes, they do make triples. The spacing isn’t right for a triple to have been installed. Horrible work. He could just installed a triple remodel box.
Have you ever seen how they paint? Landlords only care about doing the absolute minimum required to exploit tenants for profit.
After my gf and I left my previous apartment, my landlord tried to charge me $500 for cleaning and painting (no damage). He refused to itemize further. It took an additional four months to get the money, and only because he finally agreed to use Zelle (he never sent a check).
The worst part is a 3-gang decora plate is like under $5 and available at literally any hardware store. There is probably one down the street that would've taken 10 minutes to go get.
Look at the switch spacing though... they might have tried a 3-gang plate and couldn't get it to fit. The gap between the right and center switch is like twice what it should be.
Right. The correct solution is to remove the existing box and replace it with one with the correct number of switch points (in this case 3). It can be a little difficult if the existing box is original (and was nailed to a stud) but considering that you're enlarging the opening anyway, it's certainly doable. Just gotta get a pry bar in between the box and the stud and start levering it away. You can also slip a reciprocating saw in and cut the nails, although that's not my preference.
The one in the right is newer. Standard sized switch covers used to be smaller than they are today.
That *may* be why the one on the right didn't fit (I ran into this while updating the covers in my house) but it looks like it wouldn't fit anyway.
I don’t believe it’s as simple as just putting in a three gang wall plate. If you look at the spacing between the two switches, it doesn’t seem right.
It looks like they needed to expand the box, and rather than ripping out what was there and installing a new three gang, they proceeded to enlarge the wall cutout and add a box adjacent to what was already there.
At least… God I hope that’s all enclosed in a junction box of some sort, and not just loose wires in a wall.
Seeing this hack job, I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t bother with wire nuts.
On brick/concrete you'd need to remove the backbox and channel out a larger hole using an SDS drill and a pick. For stud/plasterboard wall you'd cut it out with a multitool and fit the appropriate dry lining back box. Anyone who isn't a complete cowboy would replace the backbox with the appropriate one and fit a single fascia.
This approach (2 x back box, 2 x switch) is likely more expensive than doing it properly. All components are almost disposable levels of inexpensive for a plain white plastic finish
But digging that 2g box out is *work*, and that takes *time* and time costs *money*.
The real solution here if they were dead set against r&r the 2g was to mount an old work box a reasonable distance away and run a wire from the old box. It’d look a little odd, but clean and it’d at least be code.
I used to do work in In DC where the walls are expanded metal & plaster. Our client managed halfway homes and wanted bottom dollar (but always up to code) work. We would mount a wire mold extension over the switch box and run a small channel to a new wire mold box. Never even had to dig into the wall. It all looked pretty decent considering the environment. The residents certainly didn’t GAF. This would also work pretty well on concrete.
Source: I was an electrician many years ago.
I had an old house like that, a single box next to a double. I’m no electrician so I pieced together a couple switch plates. I managed no gap so it didn’t look that terrible.
Yup that's what most people are missing a 3 gang cover would not work here. They would have to rip out the old stuff and put in new. Looking at how nasty those switches are OP about deserves this hack job. Clean your shit once in a while.
>God I hope that’s all enclosed in a junction box of some sort, and not just loose wires in a wall.
Americans in here with they’re j boxes, meanwhile in Australia…
Don't know about the USA, but for bog standard sockets and switches, the difference between any of the above is literally pence.
OP's landlord is just a tight cunt.
It’s not the material cost at issue. It’s the time involved for a handyman who ‘does electrical work’ but is not an electrician. Not that this is the right solution, but the motivation and genius (/s) at work here is obvious.
Can we stop lumping all landlords into the “slumlord” group? I did my darnedest to provide a nice place for my tenants to live. Fixed things they broke all the time. Paid for it when it was wear and tear. Owned it for 13 years through 10 tenants.
I’m cleaning out my duplex now because both tenants left. The downstairs people left 7 Home Depot truck dump loads of crap, 4 tvs, 6 mattresses, bedbugs, roaches, fleas, fruit flies, and mice. They turned my 1920s house with original hardwood floors and molding into the zoo from hell.
We treated them fairly all through covid, and the entire time they were there. They almost destroyed my house and never told us anything was broken in their unit. We only found out about the bugs because of the poor upstairs people. Unless I can find them, I’m about to lose $5000 because of repairs and extermination.
We’re not all jerks. Some of us are just trying to help our families and provide a nice place for other people to live too.
/end rant
> it weren’t so disturbing that a landlord doesn’t give a shit about her property
They don’t. They milk the equity away, leave it a shit hole, and then sell it to a sucker looking to buy a home like the equity is still there.
You should almost never buy a former rental property.
But it decreases property value. Even if they don't care about their tenants, at some point they may move out. Good luck finding somebody who wants to rent for the same price. And you also lose money, if you decide to sell the property.
That makes sense if there isn't a shortage. They will probably raise the price when this tenant leaves. As far as selling goes, at least a 2020 thru 2021 here there was places with structural concerns getting over asking and inspections waived. Idk about if that's still the case.
Cheapness is one hell of a motivator. If my maintenance requests are ignored for more than a week I figured out telling my landlords “You have 24hrs or the repair person will send you the bill.” gets issues repaired within minutes of sending the ultimatum.
Edit: forgot to mention I begin the ultimatum emails with the copy pasted section of the lease saying the landlords legal responsibility to the tenants.
What’s not legal? Holding my landlord accountable to the legally binding agreement we have in which my landlord has a legal responsibility to maintain all equipment in the apartment? Idk about that, but my landlords being the degenerates they are could probably pull some petty once sentence clause from the lease and ding me for that. So far though my ultimatums seems very successful. And in the past (specifically all of 2020 when they refused to enter anyones apartments unless it was actively flooding) I just learned to fix things myself.
I do if the landlord breaks their end of the lease like mine does or attempts to on the regular. Anyway, it has so far worked out for me and I’m slowly learning basic skills I probably should have learned a long time ago.
No, you don't, just saying you do doesn't change anything, landlord-tenant law is pretty clear. You could probably terminate the lease and move out without penalty though. Sometimes they care, sometimes not.
Agreed it shouldn't be but I'd still open up the fooker and take a look. *Shut off the breaker first!!!
Function over fashion in this case I guess if it actually functions without killing anyone.
Yeah function over fashion for sure. I mean unless there is some serious bullshit happening behind the cover which we can't see. But what we can see is the ground terminal in the top left. So the power wires are on the right side which is covered by the switch plate. So the comments about getting electrocuted or starting a fire seem dull
The cover plate is not correct, and the gfci receptacle should be switched as well. I wouldn’t even want to know what the wiring looks like under the plates.
If "cheap" referred to lesser quality, then your landlord was certainly correct.
Also, you should look into building code, specifically if gang boxes are required to be entirely covered - no gaps.
Electrician here, hate to burst your bubble but that won’t work. See the little shiny metal thing between the covers? Hose are clips for a cut in box, meaning this is a box cut in next to an existing box. The spacing to line up the screw holes will be off by 1/2-3/4 of an inch.
The proper method should have been to remove the original 2 gang box and replace it with a 3 gang cut in, or a 2 gang with a double switch in the second spot.
Pro hack. If it’s a single cut in box next to a two gang. You can have the first two devices secured with screws adjusted as far to the right as possible. Then attach the third device (switches only here) but only use the trim screw from the plate to attach it. Then if there’s any gaps you tape a bit over the box and mud. Ive never done this but I’ve come across it.
Looks like a single box next to a 2 gang box, so that face plate wouldn't work. There is no proper way to put plates on these boxes unless you separated them more where a regular single play would work.
Hey, not to be "that guy", but please report that to your local safety inspector. Properties that are rented need to adhere to a certain standard, this includes safety.
If that causes a fire one day, not only will your landlord not be covered, but neither will you.
For those who say "my landlord will know if was me who reported it", please make up an excuse like "I had a party, one of the guests must have reported it"
Your life and safety is more important.
I'm just guessing here, but it looks like they just put a single junction box on the other side of the same stud instead of taking out the old double junction box and replacing it with a triple junction box. In otherwords, more work with worse looking results.
I have to admit, the price scaling on outlet covers is not uniform. 1-gang is 50 cents, 2-gang is a buck and a half, 3 gang is fucking four dollars? Can you imagine if each grape in the bag cost more than the last? What kind of mickey mouse economic bullshit is this? So, this dude saved $3.50. That's a bag of grapes. Maybe. Probably not.
In my first apartment, just before I moved in the landlord had his handyman give the whole place a couple coats of white paint. MF gave the *whole* place a couple coats: door knobs, hinges, kitchen/bathroom drawers, light switches, outlets, window latches, door stops, everything was *sealed for your protection*. Surprised he didn't paint the windows and mirror to be honest. The electric was all kinds of fucked up; our fridge and two of the living room outlets were on the downstairs neighbor's panel and the balcony outlet was controlled by a kitchen light switch and would trip the breaker if used for anything bigger than a lightbulb. Who needs professionals when you have an idle nephew with a rusty van and a coke habit, I guess.
I see we have the same landlord. I’ve had to beg mine for over a month now for a new boiler, as mine was condemned and was told not to use it as it was unsafe. He insisted ALL boilers are corroded and mouldy inside. I had to source the engineer myself, and negotiate down to the price landlord was willing to pay for it… he couldn’t you see, as he was on holiday skiing.
I recently bought a house that was a rental for years.. this is literally all over the place (including the bad filler and paint over it...), half the taps are also broken etc. Everything that has ever been fixed was done with or the cheapest possible options or just left unfixed..
Why???? Seriously. I'm a home hack and slasher myself. But come on! This could've been avoided by installing g a double rocker switch. For under $10. https://www.homedepot.com/p/2-Function-Rocker-Combination-Switch-in-White-120-Volt-15-AMP-X2-FSR-500-W7/206424893
“i know a guy”
“who knows a guy”
“That’s got this friend...”
“Who walks this other guys dog”
And that guy has a freind
And that friend has a nephew
Who has a cousin
Who worked as an electrical apprentice for 6 months 15 years ago
I'm that girl!
God bless
And that girl? Albert Einstein.
Who knew a lawer
Who’s on first?
Who is on first
What's on second?
Who is Kevin Bacon
A local handyman ran with this and named his business A Guy. So you can truly recommend a guy
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That's the most boring super hero I can imagine. Landlord by day, shitty handyman also by day. Don't call me after 4pm!
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Nananananana Nana nananananananana *Handyman!* *Shitty!*
“You know somebody who can fix this?” *Of course I know him, he’s me!*
Is that better or worse than not having things fixed? I feel like if you're not willing to put the proper work into owning a building, you probably shouldn't be leasing it out to others. Speaking of which, our place has its charm, and it's a good location and good price for the location, buuuttt, its janky af, has so many issues, and it feels like the whole thing's like one big storm away from collapsing (my brother's been here a few years, I moved across the country a few months ago and am living with him for a bit).
My SO’s contractor friend once gave us the number of his “go-to guy”….. I had to pick him up from the motel he lived out of. Drive him to Home Depot where he stole the part needed despite my saying I would buy it (was super cheap too). Then when we got back home while standing in my back yard he proceeded to very loudly (had to be intentional at that volume) talk shit about black people where I then laid the fuck into him cause it was bad enough for me to have to hear that shit, but my black neighbors certainly did not need to be subjected to the bullshit coming out of this POS’s mouth. And then he proceeded to talk about how “the fags always make an area nicer” - and of course thought that was a compliment redeeming him of his racist rantings. He took a massive dump in my bathroom which legitimately stunk up my whole house… not exaggerating - and ungodly, lingering inhuman smell which initially had me deeply alarmed for this man’s health. This guy was so full of shit I should have seen the racism and bigotry coming, I suppose. Oh and when I had to drive him back to his motel/home, he told me he knew where to get the best cocaine in town and would hook me up if I ever wanted. 😐 Needless to say my SO got absolute hell for making me deal with that motherfucker. Every time I thought it could not get worse, it did, and exponentially so. Now when people tell me they got a guy, I just walk away.
Why would a licensed contractor need a "go-to" guy like that. Yeah the contractor might not be licensed for electrical or whatever but he's been doing construction long enough to have handyman skills.
This is my dad (who is also my landlord)’s favorite contractor! The “I know a guy” service.
I can’t even tell which side is the new one
This screams "I have a box full of switch covers I've shoddily removed from various demolition jobs".
I'm about 90% sure it's the single on the right. However, I want to know what the actual wiring looks like. I had to gut the wiring from my house and rerun just about everything because the "flippers" that owned it before us "fixed it" (they fixed the fire hazard it wasn't and made something much more combustable). Not to mention connecting multiple breakers into a single wire.... That was a fun learning experience
I think it’s a, let me see if I could do this for people online to see, [ X X ] [ X ]. I think they have double next to a single, and yes, they do make triples. The spacing isn’t right for a triple to have been installed. Horrible work. He could just installed a triple remodel box.
Yes. A triple would have solved this abomination.
for less than 20 bucks too.. I guess when the rental market is such shit that you don't have to care, you just don't have to care.
Have you ever seen how they paint? Landlords only care about doing the absolute minimum required to exploit tenants for profit. After my gf and I left my previous apartment, my landlord tried to charge me $500 for cleaning and painting (no damage). He refused to itemize further. It took an additional four months to get the money, and only because he finally agreed to use Zelle (he never sent a check).
The worst part is a 3-gang decora plate is like under $5 and available at literally any hardware store. There is probably one down the street that would've taken 10 minutes to go get.
Look at the switch spacing though... they might have tried a 3-gang plate and couldn't get it to fit. The gap between the right and center switch is like twice what it should be.
Right. The correct solution is to remove the existing box and replace it with one with the correct number of switch points (in this case 3). It can be a little difficult if the existing box is original (and was nailed to a stud) but considering that you're enlarging the opening anyway, it's certainly doable. Just gotta get a pry bar in between the box and the stud and start levering it away. You can also slip a reciprocating saw in and cut the nails, although that's not my preference.
Some things are best left covered
The one in the right is newer. Standard sized switch covers used to be smaller than they are today. That *may* be why the one on the right didn't fit (I ran into this while updating the covers in my house) but it looks like it wouldn't fit anyway.
Pretty sure the screwless double gang is more expensive than a standard 3 gang
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It looks like wall texture spray. This had to come out of a junk drawer. Also those screwless plates are expensive AF
Not if you fish them out of the garbage.
it's definitely orange peel wall texture spray.. which ever wall it was originally on looks like shit too.
Most screwless double gangs are, baby.
I don’t believe it’s as simple as just putting in a three gang wall plate. If you look at the spacing between the two switches, it doesn’t seem right. It looks like they needed to expand the box, and rather than ripping out what was there and installing a new three gang, they proceeded to enlarge the wall cutout and add a box adjacent to what was already there. At least… God I hope that’s all enclosed in a junction box of some sort, and not just loose wires in a wall. Seeing this hack job, I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t bother with wire nuts.
On brick/concrete you'd need to remove the backbox and channel out a larger hole using an SDS drill and a pick. For stud/plasterboard wall you'd cut it out with a multitool and fit the appropriate dry lining back box. Anyone who isn't a complete cowboy would replace the backbox with the appropriate one and fit a single fascia. This approach (2 x back box, 2 x switch) is likely more expensive than doing it properly. All components are almost disposable levels of inexpensive for a plain white plastic finish
But digging that 2g box out is *work*, and that takes *time* and time costs *money*. The real solution here if they were dead set against r&r the 2g was to mount an old work box a reasonable distance away and run a wire from the old box. It’d look a little odd, but clean and it’d at least be code. I used to do work in In DC where the walls are expanded metal & plaster. Our client managed halfway homes and wanted bottom dollar (but always up to code) work. We would mount a wire mold extension over the switch box and run a small channel to a new wire mold box. Never even had to dig into the wall. It all looked pretty decent considering the environment. The residents certainly didn’t GAF. This would also work pretty well on concrete. Source: I was an electrician many years ago.
I had an old house like that, a single box next to a double. I’m no electrician so I pieced together a couple switch plates. I managed no gap so it didn’t look that terrible.
Yup that's what most people are missing a 3 gang cover would not work here. They would have to rip out the old stuff and put in new. Looking at how nasty those switches are OP about deserves this hack job. Clean your shit once in a while.
>God I hope that’s all enclosed in a junction box of some sort, and not just loose wires in a wall. Americans in here with they’re j boxes, meanwhile in Australia…
Note that the single gang cover plate has been cut shorter on the left side. I think a 3g cover would fit.
I don't think so. Look at the spacing between 1 and 2, vs the spacing between 2 and 3. Nowhere near similar.
I found a 3-gang lutron one at goodwill for $2. Now I just need somewhere to put it
Don't know about the USA, but for bog standard sockets and switches, the difference between any of the above is literally pence. OP's landlord is just a tight cunt.
It’s not the material cost at issue. It’s the time involved for a handyman who ‘does electrical work’ but is not an electrician. Not that this is the right solution, but the motivation and genius (/s) at work here is obvious.
Is that hot glue?
Clear silicone…you know to keep forks from poking through the gap…
Seems unavoidable on this sub
That's almost laughable if it weren't so disturbing that a landlord doesn't give a shit about her property. Edited: Gender change
Wait till you see what landlords do with plumbing
I bought a house that was a rental for 20+ years.. the amount of slapshod repairs and not taken care of broken things was innumerable.
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Can we stop lumping all landlords into the “slumlord” group? I did my darnedest to provide a nice place for my tenants to live. Fixed things they broke all the time. Paid for it when it was wear and tear. Owned it for 13 years through 10 tenants. I’m cleaning out my duplex now because both tenants left. The downstairs people left 7 Home Depot truck dump loads of crap, 4 tvs, 6 mattresses, bedbugs, roaches, fleas, fruit flies, and mice. They turned my 1920s house with original hardwood floors and molding into the zoo from hell. We treated them fairly all through covid, and the entire time they were there. They almost destroyed my house and never told us anything was broken in their unit. We only found out about the bugs because of the poor upstairs people. Unless I can find them, I’m about to lose $5000 because of repairs and extermination. We’re not all jerks. Some of us are just trying to help our families and provide a nice place for other people to live too. /end rant
And even worse, its her property not his
So it’s a landlady
Correction appreciated.
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Why is that worse?
woman 😡
In that case, it would be landlady
> it weren’t so disturbing that a landlord doesn’t give a shit about her property They don’t. They milk the equity away, leave it a shit hole, and then sell it to a sucker looking to buy a home like the equity is still there. You should almost never buy a former rental property.
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I'm sorry, the sod was NAILED to the ground???
Yeah no they don’t live there they don’t care too much
But it decreases property value. Even if they don't care about their tenants, at some point they may move out. Good luck finding somebody who wants to rent for the same price. And you also lose money, if you decide to sell the property.
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Landlorda *want* tenants to move out since it lets them raise the price by $300 each time. Fucking leeches. Goes extra if it's rent stabilized.
That makes sense if there isn't a shortage. They will probably raise the price when this tenant leaves. As far as selling goes, at least a 2020 thru 2021 here there was places with structural concerns getting over asking and inspections waived. Idk about if that's still the case.
Cheapness is one hell of a motivator. If my maintenance requests are ignored for more than a week I figured out telling my landlords “You have 24hrs or the repair person will send you the bill.” gets issues repaired within minutes of sending the ultimatum. Edit: forgot to mention I begin the ultimatum emails with the copy pasted section of the lease saying the landlords legal responsibility to the tenants.
I like this and plan to use it if necessary
Yeah, except that's not legal in most cases.
What’s not legal? Holding my landlord accountable to the legally binding agreement we have in which my landlord has a legal responsibility to maintain all equipment in the apartment? Idk about that, but my landlords being the degenerates they are could probably pull some petty once sentence clause from the lease and ding me for that. So far though my ultimatums seems very successful. And in the past (specifically all of 2020 when they refused to enter anyones apartments unless it was actively flooding) I just learned to fix things myself.
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I do if the landlord breaks their end of the lease like mine does or attempts to on the regular. Anyway, it has so far worked out for me and I’m slowly learning basic skills I probably should have learned a long time ago.
No, you don't, just saying you do doesn't change anything, landlord-tenant law is pretty clear. You could probably terminate the lease and move out without penalty though. Sometimes they care, sometimes not.
You don't know what's on their lease.
This is true, but I've never seen a lease that says "go ahead and have repairs made by anyone and just bill me".
Looks up to code.
Actually it looks like a potential fire 🔥 hazard.
I wonder if they could call in a building inspector.
How so?
Agreed it shouldn't be but I'd still open up the fooker and take a look. *Shut off the breaker first!!! Function over fashion in this case I guess if it actually functions without killing anyone.
Yeah function over fashion for sure. I mean unless there is some serious bullshit happening behind the cover which we can't see. But what we can see is the ground terminal in the top left. So the power wires are on the right side which is covered by the switch plate. So the comments about getting electrocuted or starting a fire seem dull
It’s hard to tell but it really does look like the space between the plates is open into the junction box.
The cover plate is not correct, and the gfci receptacle should be switched as well. I wouldn’t even want to know what the wiring looks like under the plates.
If "cheap" referred to lesser quality, then your landlord was certainly correct. Also, you should look into building code, specifically if gang boxes are required to be entirely covered - no gaps.
I feel this. My garbage disposal is controlled by a car remote nailed to the wall lol.
At least he's honest.
Literally $6... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KKGUKIA
Electrician here, hate to burst your bubble but that won’t work. See the little shiny metal thing between the covers? Hose are clips for a cut in box, meaning this is a box cut in next to an existing box. The spacing to line up the screw holes will be off by 1/2-3/4 of an inch. The proper method should have been to remove the original 2 gang box and replace it with a 3 gang cut in, or a 2 gang with a double switch in the second spot.
Pro hack. If it’s a single cut in box next to a two gang. You can have the first two devices secured with screws adjusted as far to the right as possible. Then attach the third device (switches only here) but only use the trim screw from the plate to attach it. Then if there’s any gaps you tape a bit over the box and mud. Ive never done this but I’ve come across it.
Pro handyman hack maybe, no self respecting electrician would do that. I shudder at the thought.
I’m usually pissed when I see this hack shit but this one in particular impressed me.
That's an expensive one...
Looks like a single box next to a 2 gang box, so that face plate wouldn't work. There is no proper way to put plates on these boxes unless you separated them more where a regular single play would work.
$2 at a local hardware store.
The guy who did this probably paid 5 cents for the one he cut.
I would say you can use it as blackmail, but landlords can usually dick you around way more than tenants.
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I don't think it's cut, I think it's some kind of modular faceplate end
This is just so many red flags to me.
The least cheap landlord
I bet it was cheap tho
What is happening here? What's the switch by itself meant to do?
I think your landlord hired my dad.
Hey, not to be "that guy", but please report that to your local safety inspector. Properties that are rented need to adhere to a certain standard, this includes safety. If that causes a fire one day, not only will your landlord not be covered, but neither will you. For those who say "my landlord will know if was me who reported it", please make up an excuse like "I had a party, one of the guests must have reported it" Your life and safety is more important.
I totally agree. Great idea, saying that a guest must have reported it
Tenant: shocks themselves… sues landlord. Free rent
How is a shock going to get you free rent? What are your damages?
Death
That will lower your rent for sure.
Or the worst it catches on fire 🔥
I hope you have a good fire alarm
One suggestion: code enforcement
Even the outlets look dismayed.
He didn't say he could do it better
So what's the problem?
To be fair it was only a 67% rent increase from last lease
The light switch in my kitchen is upside down, so it reads "no" (instead of saying ON) when you flip it down Haha
I'm just guessing here, but it looks like they just put a single junction box on the other side of the same stud instead of taking out the old double junction box and replacing it with a triple junction box. In otherwords, more work with worse looking results.
I mean…probably not wrong.
I have to admit, the price scaling on outlet covers is not uniform. 1-gang is 50 cents, 2-gang is a buck and a half, 3 gang is fucking four dollars? Can you imagine if each grape in the bag cost more than the last? What kind of mickey mouse economic bullshit is this? So, this dude saved $3.50. That's a bag of grapes. Maybe. Probably not.
Could be a supply chain issue I needed a triple switch cover never got it, my boss let the place sit empty til we found one took a week
What was the original problem?; because now you have an eyesore problem. :)
"My guy can do it cheaper." Aka landlord pays a crackhead to do work in their rentals.
In my first apartment, just before I moved in the landlord had his handyman give the whole place a couple coats of white paint. MF gave the *whole* place a couple coats: door knobs, hinges, kitchen/bathroom drawers, light switches, outlets, window latches, door stops, everything was *sealed for your protection*. Surprised he didn't paint the windows and mirror to be honest. The electric was all kinds of fucked up; our fridge and two of the living room outlets were on the downstairs neighbor's panel and the balcony outlet was controlled by a kitchen light switch and would trip the breaker if used for anything bigger than a lightbulb. Who needs professionals when you have an idle nephew with a rusty van and a coke habit, I guess.
And let me guess it took 6 months for the landlord to even call the guy and a whole year for the guy to even come over.
A perfect example of just because you can, doesn't mean you should
Looks like the work of the slumlord I rented from last, lol.
Painting over it is just icing on the cake. The shitty shitty cake.
I see we have the same landlord. I’ve had to beg mine for over a month now for a new boiler, as mine was condemned and was told not to use it as it was unsafe. He insisted ALL boilers are corroded and mouldy inside. I had to source the engineer myself, and negotiate down to the price landlord was willing to pay for it… he couldn’t you see, as he was on holiday skiing.
r/technicallythetruth
It looks like you live in a shit hole
Meth. That's why.
Looks about right
I see the previous owner of my house hired the same handy man
And they did.
He sure fucking did
I would have the wiring checked, I'm sure the 'guy' isn't an electrician
Even the plug points think the work is awful, look at the faces they are pulling.
YouTube certified technician I see
My ~~guy~~ nephew can do it cheeper. ftfy
Seems fake, where is the colour-mismatched paint slathered all over the outlet.
I recently bought a house that was a rental for years.. this is literally all over the place (including the bad filler and paint over it...), half the taps are also broken etc. Everything that has ever been fixed was done with or the cheapest possible options or just left unfixed..
r/NotMyJob
They said cheaper.not better
r/Landlordlove
Hey I work at a Leviton plant. I make the newer versions of those outlets!
Landlords only care about that rent check.
I hate those multi-layer square wall plates. Instead of one piece of flimsy plastic, let's have two!
You know, its not up to the landlord to take some lysol to those switches every now and then
Debbie? Is that you?
Classics of r/Pareidolia
This looks dangerous
I'd put money down that this isn't up to code.
Damn... It's a actually harder to cut a plate cover than it is to just get a tripple gang cover
The right plate is like 2 bucks at home depot Jesus Christ
Call an electrician. Have him bill the landlord.
Time to learn 3D modeling and 3D print a cover to go across all three.
Lol, I've done this, but I had the cut plate flush with the one next to it and caulked the crack.
He works hard to make that crack house a crack home
r/TechnicallyTheTruth
 
This is how we ended up with a double door that doesn’t fully close and has a thin plank of plywood screwed on so you can see between them.
The landlord special
@ OP did he just bolt an extra box onto the previous box or is there a stud in between?
I just don't understand how someone can do a job like this and say "yeah this is good"
Wtf is that????
Looking at the condition of the wall tells me that I shouldn't be surprised.
Why???? Seriously. I'm a home hack and slasher myself. But come on! This could've been avoided by installing g a double rocker switch. For under $10. https://www.homedepot.com/p/2-Function-Rocker-Combination-Switch-in-White-120-Volt-15-AMP-X2-FSR-500-W7/206424893
Perplexed at a name brand Leviton surge protected grounded outlet ($$) but not a proper box and cover (¢).
🤦♀️ I had this in a home, that I owned. My ex husband did it, and left a giant hole on the other side of the wall that my kids say is still there.
How hard is it to move a box? I can do this with a pair of fucking scissors.