On 09/20/12 03:50 pm, Edward Reid wrote:
I'm helping a friend fix up some things in her house. A mystery switch
turned out to have no wires attached. It was just being used to fill
the third hole in a three-gang wall plate. This is in a part of the
house 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 box
stores and on the web, and I haven't found a wall plate that's
switch+switch+blank. (Specifically, it needs to be ivory, and the
switches are toggle ... even though every other room in the house is
white, rocker. Go figure.)

Any idea where to find such a wall plate, or suggestions for
alternatives?

I've considered some possibilities. 1) Of course there's always
putting it back like it was, but I don't like mystery switches. 2) I
could try carefully trimming two wall plates to meet on a straight
line, and if I were really good with a router, that might be the best
course, but I'm not that good. 3) I could convert this one room to
rocker switches to match the rest of the house, and possibly have a
better chance, though I had to go online even to find a duplex
rocker+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-size
hole in the plate, I'd even be happy with that.

5) I'm not sure if I looked for a switch+switch+outlet plate, just
adding an outlet to fill the space, but it's in a bathroom and I think
I'd need to use a GFCI outlet (and would therefore require a
switch+switch+rectangle plate), plus I'm not sure if I identified a
neutral in the box. (I'm not there to look at it today.)

I don't remember where we got them years ago (maybe Lowe's), but we have
some "sectional" Decora-style plates that interlock: two switch plates
plus one blank plate. Perhaps there were "old-fashioned"-type switch
plates as well, but I don't remember.

Not cheap, but not outrageous. And aren't there also blanking inserts
for both "old-fashioned"-type switch plates and Decora-style switch plates?

Perce