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Default There is no single toggle switch plate for a double gang box?

You should be able to go to any good commercial electrical supply
house and have virtually any pattern of switch cover custom
punched.

They will probably have all the normal ones sitting on the shelf.
What worries me is your comment that the lid is the same material
as the box. This is sounding a lot like a 4 square with a 4
square raised cover a bit like the top left item on this page:
http://www.galesburgelectric.com/Electrical-Box-Covers-p-1-c-386.html
In order to use a conventional switch plate cover, you will need
to change out the raised lid for a plaster ring like this:
http://www.galesburgelectric.com/Appleton-8470B-4-Inch-Steel-Square-Cover-Double-Device-Plast-p-2507.html
And this will probably take an oversized switch plate to cover
everything.

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"MiamiCuse" wrote in message
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I have an exterior brick wall with a metal double gang box (why I
don't know). It has a square metal cover plate (one that is made
of the same material as the box itself). However, all the other
switch covers around that wall are white so I am trying to find
one but I searched and searched and finally concluded they don't
make a single toggle swicth for a double gang box? or was I
looking in the wrong place? There has to be one somewhere?

MC