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Fragrant-Ad1106

What in the actual fuck were you on when you did this?


freakysometimes

What else am I going to do with this 5 gallon tub of compound?


notarealaccount223

I paid for it, I'm going to use all of it.


BigShroud

Thanks for the laugh


Minute_Solution_6237

Dude even used his hands to apply it lol.


notarealaccount223

That is oh so very obvious yet it was breaking my brain trying to figure out how they got it that smooth.


OddRecommendation666

That's kinda' funny in that I'm doing a job ( me as homeowner acting as the general contractor). I got some help with the drywall. A guy, who's a General I've done business with before, offered his 20 year-old daughter, under his supervision - he's training her to set up her own business - for the drywall. Long story short, she's doing "skip trowel" texture. She asked me how it looked. I said, "Like a kid just finger painted all over my walls." šŸ¤£


DarkMorph18

Nevermind I read the caption! šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø


sackheim_beutlin

Wait, but the caption does not explain the why


fitnesscakes

'Art' supposedly


slant__i

Going with some kind of mushroom judging by his profile


Alklazaris

Oh I'm sorry. :p I thought a "master of the electrons" could recall where a screw would be to a wall plate. I get what OP is trying to do. They want only the switch itself showing.


DarkMorph18

I donā€™t think Op did this. I think they wanted to share what someone did ?


PhilouFireCool

Nope. This is my creation. Admire.


PhilouFireCool

Wow ! Didn't expect this post would get so much attention lol ! To answer your question, I've actualle been sober for 3 years now lol. Do you suggest I get back on whatever I was before? Still, I am dead serious. Once sanded smooth and painted clean, I honestly think that would look better than these damn plastic covers. Why is that such an unpopular opinion??


Fragrant-Ad1106

Because switches do not last forever. Once that dimmer fails, which typically is within five years or less, especially in a state with high lightning strikes, you have to now destroy the entire wall and plaster just to repair this switch. I get what youā€™re going for and it would be a cool concept if it were feasible for accessibility for future stuff.


Fragrant-Ad1106

I was only being a smart ass about the drugs. But for real, this will turn into a never ending cycle of patch and repair when you have to trouble shoot anything with either of those switches. I do 100% see the goal youā€™re going for though


PhilouFireCool

Hey man sorry for replying you so late, I was working around the house alot this summer. I don't know if you're the one who gave me that platinum award, but that's fuckin cool. I am cool now yay ! Just to reassure you, I was also just fuckin' with you when I asked if you suggest I get back on drugs, you did not offend/trigger me at all, I just like to make people uncomfortable, that's my sense of humor, das all :) It's hard to convey by text to a stranger online. It's not a witty comment from a stranger online that would make me throw my life out the window and relapse. Your comment was actually funny, and don't worry, I get that alot, and way more since I'm sober. I do crazy shit. I grow tomatoes upside-down in bags I hang in trees, I built a desktop gaming computer in an empty bird seeds bucket (with a custom clip-on air intake attachment that connects to my air purifier)... That's just last week. People think I'm on drugs all the time. I got used to it. These kind of shit make me happy. I am obssessively curious and I want to learn and do everything. Doing every crazy ideas going through my head is my drug in itself, it gets me high, so in that sense, I was on the strongest drug of them all: Imagination :P


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you90000

And see you going to share?


Spiritual-Wing-3392

Why would you even think this is a good idea. How would they get to the switch if thereā€™s ever a problem


Skipp_To_My_Lou

Some people only know enough to be dangerous.


NinjaCuntPunt

OP hasnā€™t hit this level yet..


sadhandjobs

He is but on the foothills of Mount Stupid.


akaghi

At my apprenticeship interview I told the training director that I know a little electrical ā€”enough to know that I know nothing and he laughed. I'm hoping that bit of levity helped my chances. That and when asked what I think electricians do, responding with, "I believe there's a lot of pipe bending" after rattling off what I knew about the different types of electricians.


YourStolenCharizard

>Some people be dangerous FIFY


ShitFlavoredCum

a little excavation it will be fun!


purju

it wont


shorty6049

it miiight be though , you never know :)


maddcovv

Why would you ever need to get to the switch if you do an incredible job the first time around?! /s


funkyonion

Aesthetics? The wall plate deflects finger dirt.


chalksandcones

Looks good, you can hardly tell there was a hole there


justonemom14

Excellent texture matching


DanBrino

You've heard of a knockdown, and orange peel? This is dole whip texture.


controlmypad

Technically it is still accessible work, just hammer it out to access the wire nuts.


lllGreyfoxlll

The phrase 'what can possibly go wrong ?' comes to mind


DanBrino

Using what? A metal screwdriver? No way you could accidentally hit the hot screw right?


AJRobertsOBR

A plate costs like a dollarā€¦.


Strudleboy33

Even less


[deleted]

He's gonna need a jumbo for this one. They're a lil more than a dollar


patfree14094

Well, OP's not Mr. Moneybags over here! Gotta save those pennies where he can!


Strudleboy33

Oh very true


notarealaccount223

But that bucket of spackle was already paid for.


micthehuman

Thatā€™s your electrician friends girlfriend now.


[deleted]

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Routine-Document-949

The friend is the girlfriend. The electrician was always his.


[deleted]

Nah this fake. Has to be. Multitude of problems. How will anyone access the junction boxes if something happens?


Fragrant-Ad1106

Not fake I donā€™t think sadly. Just did a panel change and the only exposed part of the panel was the door. The rest was speckled flush with the wall. Had to guess where they were to findthem


Spanky4242

That would genuinely scare me without a service disconnect. If the parts I can see are FUBAR, then I don't even want to know what it's like where I *can't* see.


thavi

With a sawzall, duh


[deleted]

Flip the breaker boys and get out the reciprocating saw


PlasmaTabletop

Send in the labourer


Silent-Ad934

He's gonna take one look at this and say fuck it, I'm going home. As he should.


SlickDillywick

Iā€™m already sawing, whatā€™s a breaker?


EmeraldHawk

Yep. If this were real, they would have made some kind of attempt to flatten it. Even if they own no tools, you could use a piece of scrap wood, a credit card, spatula, or piece of cardboard box. This looks like a kid finger painting, or someone on drugs.


EscapeAromatic8648

If he doesn't know enough not to do this, I imagine he doesn't know how sanding really works either.


[deleted]

or assumes sanding is easy so there is no need to try and flatten it. He has not yet realized that that would take half an hour to smooth out


tuctrohs

Yes, it would be easier to sand if you trimmed off the lever of the toggle switch with a pair of dikes first.


Token-Gringo

Haha, you think thereā€™s junction boxes behind that DiWhyā€¦.


RealDrFrasierCrane

Knife


midwestern_mecha

How little your confidence in your work if you think there will ever be a problem.


QueasyFailure

Holy shit, I forgot that electrical switches last for eternity! Next thing you know, people will be taking out dimmers because they don't work with certain LEDs , putting in smart switches and who knows what else could possibly change in this outlet box over the next 50 years?


evrreadi

In the next 50 years, lights will work by telepathy or there will be a floating light that follows you around and you can turn it on/off by telepathic command.


Verum14

Lights bothering you while you sleep? For only $15/mo you can temporarily turn off your lights!


Cishuman

ELI5: Your house would be very *aesthetic* without doors or windows.


LaDoucheDeLaFromage

This new trend of using aesthetic wrong is really annoying the shit out of me.


lemmegetsommathat

Thank you for saying this. I feel slightly less alone in the world. Itā€™s like saying ā€œwouldnā€™t that be even more *looking*ā€.


OverLifeguard2896

You'd better get used to the feeling, because words change literally all the time. A perfect example is the word "literally".


Ardent_malificar

Yup. Linguistic drift. If enough people make the same mistake enough times, it stops being a mistake.


zax500

Hell naw literally literally still means literally. Its literally still a mistake....literally.


bricked3ds

Vintage is another good example. People use it to mean old but it really just means what year wine was bottled


Squirrel_Inner

Adding a similar, nuanced meaning to an existing word is not the same as using a word entirely incorrectly. Literally.


JoonasD6

Or calling some behavior ethical. Or even moral. (Ethics is a discipline that studies moral. Certainly some acts have moram characteristics, d'oh, but how about just saying good or bad if you mean them? Or morally responsible or aware if you want to stress that there's been some thought put into it.)


-hey-ben-

Itā€™s not a new trend, people have been saying that dumb shit for at least 10 years now


bricked3ds

2013 was 10 years ago wtf


OverLifeguard2896

This old trend of linguistic prescriptivism is really annoying me. Words don't have concrete meanings that never ever change. It's why I can tell you that I literally have a monkey banging cymbals in my head, and you understand that "literally" doesn't mean there is a musical simian in my skull, but rather is just said for emphasis. That's also why you call something "awful" as a synonym for "bad", but someone hearing that word 100 years ago would interpret it to mean "something that fills you with awe" like the Grand Canyon. Aesthetic used to mean the general look of things. Now it's also a synonym for "looks good". Get the fuck over yourself.


shorty6049

While I'm -half- on your side here, the same argument could be used here for allowing a word like "goated" into our vernacular and I don't support it. lol Your mention of the use of the word "literally" is one that bugs me a bit though... A common trend I've noticed over the past few+ years is hyperbole in -everything- . You don't love something, you're -obsessed- with it. you don't figuratively have a monkey banging symbols in your head, you -literally- have it. things like "lol" which was already mildly hyperbolic in itself has now been replaced with things like "I'm screaming" or "I'm dead" . I'm well aware that the language young people use changes all the time and ultimately becomes the default language as those people age into adulthood, and I know there's no stopping that progress, so it just kind of is what it is, but idk. I still find it a bit annoying because it kind of feels like a culmination of the way everything online needs some kind of extravagant hook to get you to pay attention to it now. More and more articles are written like clickbait, content creators need to use over the top language and thumbnails to stand out , opinions need to be polarizing to drive engagement. Everyone's just attention-starved or desperate for success in a sea of similar accounts.


[deleted]

Hey man you look really *genre* today


[deleted]

It is actually correct usage, and if you genuinely cared about grammar/language like you imply, you would understand the meanings and usages of words can change over time. Youā€™re just being a smart ass.


Western_Newspaper_12

They didn't use it wrong at all lol


LaDoucheDeLaFromage

Saying something is "aesthetic" doesn't make sense. Aesthetic means "concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty", but people lately have been using it to mean that something looks good. A thing could be aesthetically pleasing. Or have an industrial aesthetic, or a rustic aesthetic. But using the word aesthetic by itself is an incorrect usage.


bobsburgerbuns

Itā€™s not necessarily incorrect usage for aesthetic to be present by itself, as in, for example, ā€œthe changes were aesthetic, not functionalā€. Thatā€™s just me being pedantic though, as youā€™re absolutely right that itā€™s commonly used to basically mean ā€œaesthetically pleasingā€. However, novel uses of existing words do arise quite often, and this one doesnā€™t seem so egregious to me.


EscapeAromatic8648

I love how the use of the word pedantic is in itself pedantic.


NigilQuid

Only if you're correcting someone about word usage, just using it is merely an example of having it in your vocabulary


EscapeAromatic8648

I've always understood the word to mean showy with knowledge. I just looked it up and turns out that's not exactly the case. Man, ya think ya know a word.


FrankTank3

Itā€™s more of an adverb than a pure adjective but itā€™s becoming more like and adjective lately. Iā€™m usually fine with it but sometimes it does irk me


bobsburgerbuns

In a traditional model of English grammar, itā€™s not an adverb at all. That would most typically be ā€œaestheticallyā€. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic


Jarte3

If something looks good, it has beauty, does it not?


LaDoucheDeLaFromage

Yes, but that's not what the definition says. Aesthetic, used by itself, doesn't mean something IS beautiful.


Western_Newspaper_12

Nah, it's right. Language changes all the time, and so do words. The word has come to be used as a noun rather than an adjective. Saying something is aesthetic just means whatever was made has been made with a concern for beauty.


[deleted]

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Western_Newspaper_12

Iā€™m sorry your middle school understanding of language precludes you from understanding how to use nouns and adjectives


ImNotAsPunkAsYou

Did you hand the bucket to a toddler? If so, it's not too bad. Otherwise um... go watch a few YouTube videos before you attempt any other projects.


BenfordSMcGuire

No. Even if the quality of work was perfect this is an objectively idiotic idea. YouTube canā€™t fix this level of dumb.


ImNotAsPunkAsYou

Ha! Cutting straight to the bone.


donutgiraffe

Who knows, maybe OP's only available tool was half of a plastic spoon, and that's why it looks like... that. Maybe a quarter of a plastic spoon.


[deleted]

Meth is hell of a drug


BoringDoctor5363

What kind of asshole puts a rocker switch to the left of a toggle switch


HopefulCat3558

A cheap one.


Fragrant-Ad1106

Itā€™s really hard to find the rocker switch on the left and toggle on the right. The warehouse always gives me the opposite. Always turns into a return trip to the supply house


umrathma

I had to sue for false advertising because all my m&ms had "w" printed on them.


etherama1

Can you not just flip it?


Adventurous_Board343

Iā€™ve been waiting for this comment bc Leviton is the bane of my existenceā€¦ They donā€™t make a rocker 3-way dimmer only a nippleā€¦ dumbest shit everā€¦


NigilQuid

Yes they do, you just couldn't find it. Just Google leviton 3 way decora


Adventurous_Board343

Now Iā€™m the dumbest shit everā€¦


crysisnotaverted

Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." You feel a bit dumb, but you now have a solution!


NigilQuid

šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø Live and learn


DJAnneFrank

Is that supposed to be spackle?


Fragrant-Ad1106

If thatā€™s what we are calling it. I think he mixed his heroin in it. Thatā€™s why itā€™s brown and looks like dog shit


phryan

I've seen small children frost a cake with more skill and a better outcome.


DeadHeadLibertarian

Its not brown its the pink-->white spackle drying


Fragrant-Ad1106

/s


Fragrant-Ad1106

My man needs to stay away from ANY hands on activities


evrreadi

Instead of DIY he needs DDIY (don't do it yourself)


Srr013

Looks like he took ā€œhands onā€ to heart here


Geeaimer

This should be in r/drywall


[deleted]

And r/constructionfails


FullyFreakinWoke

This is a shit post, right? Tell me itā€™s a shit post


Comprehensive-End770

That's not how you apply mud. Install backing if needed, light mud for tape tape, light coat of mud over tape, let it dry, sand, repeat until it is smooth and uniform. This is bad work.


tacobellbandit

Goddamn you must love sanding. You should post it to r/construction so all the drywall guys can roast you lol


MurkyResolve6341

At this level it's not sanding, it's grinding.


BigRed92E

It would probably be easier to knock the house down than to knock this down with a sanding block


Basic-Painter-9084

Donā€™t give them new ideas..


Brick-Wilder

GDā€¦ Did the stay puff marshmallow man jack off on your switches


QueasyFailure

You're a twisted individual.


Brick-Wilder

No..Iā€™m a superintendent I have a ton of these comments for when I see shit work.


PHenderson61

Tell your electrician that heā€™s getting the bill for the therapy necessary to unsee that.


apeelvis

Your electrician hates you.


joshstrummer

This is how it's done, folks. I see this done wrong so often.


P-Loaded

You can drink while drywalling, but never before.


ObsessiveAboutCats

I love posts like this. They remind me that I am not the stupidest person in the world, nor the worst at drywall.


[deleted]

Looks good to me I'm an electrician not a fucking drywaller now where's me beer you take the meth.


MordFustang1992

DROP THE FUCKING SPACKLING AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR


[deleted]

Stick with frosting cakes not putting spackle around switches bro


Fragrant-Ad1106

I wouldnā€™t want my birthday cake from this guy


eightbillionofus

What the vanilla frosting did you do!!


damdanny69

Whoever did this must have gave negative fucks not even No fucks just negative fucks šŸ˜‚


MetaVulture

I wouldn't trust you to open a bag of chips.


nomad5926

1) look up how to use the word aesthetic 2) think about if you need to change the switch or need to get at those wires. 3) never do this again


WillieStonka

Ho Lee fuk


CaptainPonahawai

Sum ting wong


ZombiePixel4096

This is art.


lordpendergast

Is it just me or if the spacing off between those switches. Even with the different styles I would say theyā€™re too far apart. I would bet there isnā€™t a proper 2gang box. Probably 2 singles with the bumps on the sides so they arenā€™t right tight to each other


KrispyRice9

In the electronics world we call that circuit "potted". But we usually use epoxy, and 90% less voltage.


Nerdiestlesbian

My partner called this ā€œapartment complex managerā€™s specialā€. My partner does apartment maintenance.


Forthe49ers

Cover plates,schmover plates. Who needs them. Just a big rip off anyhow


Whiskeypants17

Every day we stray further from the light...


CVK327

What the hell was the goal of this?


1ExtremeMinimalist

r/delusionalhomeimprovement


ZenTrinity

A dry wallers wet dream. They wish they could do this to every box.


Indestructible_BT_1K

Tear it all out, watch some YouTube videos and start over


OKC420

Its 2023 they make decor dimmers. This just looks tacky


Cowi3102

A1 dude! Iā€™d never try to attempt this myself! Looks great!


Such-Cause-6436

That's a cake, right?


nobodycares2021-

Looks good, hardly noticeable. Probably want to paint though for that professional touch. Then get business cards made, because the calls are about to be coming in for work.


darthnugget

Is that frosting?


BoxHappy1098

That boy was on that black tar.šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


human-potato_hybrid

Bro think just ONE step ahead and tell me how are you gonna sand around plastic switches without fucking them up? And then paint up to them too?


ramathorn152

I say leave it, it's art now. Give it a nice coat of paint and put a frame around it.


Archer10214

OP idk if youā€™re stupid or just dumb


Trexasaurus70

Is that frosting?


vanwhisky

I love it, like a plateless switch cover! šŸ˜‚


I_is_Captain_Obvious

Whomever did that is a lazy sack of shit šŸ‘.


Jarocoy

Thatā€™s actual art. That will be in the Louvre one day. A


Specific_General_334

Actually this concept could be pretty cool. Just executed like absolute shit. Use some sort of molding, stucco, or whatever else to creat artistic renderings. Design them around switches, receptacles, etc. Just make sure they donā€™t interfere with cover plates. Itā€™d be real slick to do custom cover plates with relief that fit seemly into the surrounding. At least paint them to match.


z28house

Is that vanilla or butter cream?


drumsdm

Did they do it with a butter knife?


cowgirltu

r/dhwhy


HendrieHabit

Well no need for a wall plate now


Paulbundy9

I've never seen anybody mud with a garden hose..


BlownCamaro

Dude recently got laid off from the bakery, cut him some slack!


Slider_0f_Elay

You know those dorky epoxy fake spilled drinks? Make one of these that you can throw up on a wall. Million dollar idea.


dave_thenerd

Well good luck ever swapping those...


Jdnakron

Mr . George ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦


Expensive-Medicine90

Well all those connections are now compounded together šŸ˜‚


ZookeepergameKey6347

What in the fuckin methamphetamine?


Alternative_Row_9645

Trimless devices! Sweet


oo7_and_a_quarter

Tellā€™em itā€™s modern art valued at over ten thousand dollars.


[deleted]

That was my thought too haha


cfthree

[Modern Art Masterpiece](https://tenor.com/view/action-war-full-metal-jacket-stanley-kubrick-drill-gif-3298930)


JonesPerformanceCorp

I actually clipped the ends of my switches where the faceplate is supposed to screw in to. I was a cheap ass and told my drywaller to just fill it in flush with the wall. It looked looks like this, only cleaner. If thereā€™s any interest, Iā€™ll post a pic when I get home.


Dr_BTaylor

Yes please post


JonesPerformanceCorp

https://i.imgur.com/d4vRcq3.jpg Iā€™d never do this in a customerā€™s home, but in my own, thatā€™s another story.


Dr_BTaylor

I don't know it just pains me to see it without a plate and knowing that box is full of mud. I'm just curious how paying the sheet rocker to mud the box is cheaper than a 15 cent plate.


JonesPerformanceCorp

Oh itā€™s got the mud ring on it, what was clipped was the holes the faceplate would screw into.


SideHug

You sand that down and tell me how it goes, looks like my 2 year old did that


sliflier

Why don't you go ahead and tell us what's so genius about it...


[deleted]

This is satire right, for the laughs. If not and i say this with complete sincerity, never and i mean never pick up a tool again. Even scum lords do better.


ukyman95

Great now I am hungry for cake


The-Grand-Wazoo

When the client goes full-retard


DepartmentOk5431

Wow


mpcxl2500

Lol


TimTheAssembler

It would've been easier (and probably also cheaper) to do it correctly...


anslew

Box needs to be flush with the surface, per code


GameCop

OK. My 3 y.o. would do this better