Reddit reviews Clear Light Switch Guards, 3 - Pack | Rocker Style | Child Safety Cover | Security Light Switch Protection | Dual Access Features | Home and Office

Switch cover from Amazon like one of these

https://smile.amazon.com/Mitzvah-Family-2202-Magnetic-Switches/dp/B01ATZDAWU

https://smile.amazon.com/Light-Switch-Guard-Security-product/dp/B00DUBOSTA

You can either get a physical cover for the switch so people know not to turn it off or you can remove the switch and just join the line and load wires to be permanently closed and then put a blank cover over the switch.

I bought these.

You could use a Switch guard

This is for a decora style, but they make ones for regular toggle style switches as well

Just block them off.

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I have two Hunter Signal fans and love them. I have the remote "cradles" next to the swithces and use these covers over the switches so nobody turns them off.Switch covers

Dual Option Wall Switch Guard (3 Pack) Clear Rocker https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DUBOSTA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_MtqPl51JqD4sa

Search for Shabbat light switch cover. You will find a bunch of options. For instance:

https://www.amazon.com/Option-Switch-Guards-Clear-Toggle/dp/B00DTXKOTM/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=shabbat+light+switch+cover&qid=1570197758&sr=8-6

https://www.amazon.com/Option-Switch-Guards-Clear-Rocker/dp/B00DUBOSTA/ref=sr_1_14?keywords=shabbat+light+switch+cover&qid=1570197758&sr=8-14

key word here was apartment. I wouldn't be doing any electrical work if I was renting. You are just asking for a heap of trouble. I agree that smart switches are way better but for an apartment bulbs are probably the safest bet. Rocker Blocker or Toggle Blocker work if you are worried about guests hitting switches.

I use these. Blocked but still usable.

https://www.amazon.com/Option-Switch-Guard-Clear-Rocker/dp/B00DUBOSTA

I'm guessing you're not in the US based on the wire color coding, so any references to the NEC would not apply to you. You should verify everything you're doing with your local electrical code.

>I would assume that pigtailing the yellow wire is still the best option?

Yes, cut the yellow wire in the middle and connect your now pair of yellow wires with the red wire using a properly sized wire nut. You would then put a rocker and blank switch plate over your now single switch.

>There's no switch cover out there that i can replace this switch with, that simply keeps the circuit "always on" is there?

You could do something like this to lock it in the on position if you don't want to mess with the wiring anymore.

They only work with the thinner switches. There appear to be some options for the wider switches on Amazon if you search for "light switch guard". For example:

https://www.amazon.com/Option-Switch-Guard-Clear-Rocker/dp/B00DUBOSTA/ref=sr_1_8?s=lamps-light&ie=UTF8&qid=1511223225&sr=1-8&keywords=light+switch+guard

For anyone that needs em too - here it is.

I recommend something like this

I bought this to cover the original switch but still can get at it just in case and have a Phillips switch for the Hue lights next to it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Option-Switch-Guards-Clear-Rocker/dp/B00DUBOSTA

There are purpose-built switch covers for both trditional and Decora style switches, that attach using the existing (or extended) screws on the wall plate. I've used covers like these in several rooms quite successfully.

Please don't do this.

This can potentially do 2 things:

A) Eliminate a redundant means of disconnecting the light fixture (that isn't the main breaker of your house)

B) Confuse someone that doesn't have knowledge of the situation

While this may not discretely violate code (breaker counts as a disconnecting means), it would provide confusion to the next person that owns your house.

The purpose of the electrical code is to primarily act as a guideline for proper electrical design / practice, but it is also meant to be used as a cookie cutter set of rules to provide consistency across all electrical installations and avoid confusion.

In your particular suggestion, i can forsee OP forgetting to wire the existing switch back in if he/ she were to move. Then the next homeowner will call an electrician in to ask why the switch isn't working, and the electrician will be confused because he doesn't know if the black wire leaving the box goes to the light fixture or is a jumper to the next switch.

[Please use a switch lockout mechanism] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DUBOSTA/ref=psdc_6291359011_t2_B0019KBYE6) or install a smart switch.

Thanks everyone for the responses..... This was my solution:
Step 1:

http://www.amazon.ca/Light-Switch-Guard-Switches-Shields/dp/B00DUBOSTA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454016617&sr=8-1&keywords=switch+guards

Looks like these guards are perfect; they'll be here next week and will frustrate my lovely bride to no end for at least a week BUT

Step 2:

Hue Dimmer. What a great product; easy to use, easy to set up and no playing around with electronics needed. I've set up one at the base of the stairs to just turn all lights on at full "soft white" brightness and one at the top of our stairs to do the same so she can turn everything off without walking down when the kids inevitably leave them all on.

Step 3:

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This appears to be what is going to work. Thanks everyone for the help.

I used these https://www.amazon.com/Light-Switch-Guard-Switches-Shields/dp/B00DUBOSTA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482935004&sr=8-1&keywords=rocker+switch+cover

Then I just used some 3M double sided tape and it looks fine. This way I can still have access to the light switch if I need to.

[Rocker Switch] (https://www.amazon.com/Light-Switch-Guard-Switches-Shields/dp/B00DUBOSTA/)

I've been looking at ceiling fan options too. All of my fans are on multi switch circuits. One is two switch, another is three switch. Plus mine are all wired with the fan and light tied together. With both of those in mind I may never be able to use smart switches to control the light and fan separate.

I think I may have settled on child locks on the switches to keep them on like this:
Dual Option Wall Switch Guard (3 Pack) Clear Rocker https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DUBOSTA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_q4nCzbZTRZC5D

With this fan:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/206648825

The fan has everything I want, and looks nice. Part of my motivation is one of my fans is really noisy, and both scream 90's. When I look at the cost of 5 smart switches, and two new fans, and maybe smart bulbs, the cost is pretty close, and the gardinier fans simplify everything a lot more.

Same line of reasoning for the garage door opener. My opener is 15 years old and last winter I thought it was dead. So I don't know if I should get a Zwave controller for $100, if I may replace the opener soon, weighed against the cost of an opener with MyQ built in. I'm torn.

I've had a similar problem with a poorly placed switch. I already had a bunch of Hue lights, so I got a Hue Smart Dimmer Switch (Amazon Link) and stuck it to the wall where I wanted the switch and covered the old switch with a tamper-proof cover (Amazon Link).

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No electrical work required.

Dual Option Wall Switch Guards (3 Pack) Clear Rocker Style