damn having two switches for one light!
If a room has two light switches for the same light, I have to use the same switch to turn a light on and back off so that when the light is off, both switches are down and when the light is on, both switches are up. I have stubbed my toe many times because I had to go across the room to use the right switch and then walked back across in the dark.
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I used to have this problem. But I solved it by replacing all of my light switches with flat ones, and I find that it doesn’t bother me at all anymore.
This is my neurosis. But in editing, some of the meaning was lost, because if both switches were up the lights would be off. Sooo it is perfectly acceptable for one to be up and one to be down, doesn’t matter which is which, but to turn them off, both HAVE to be down.
However, thanks very much to the webmaster, because I am very excited to have my first neurosis posted =)
Whenever my family moved into a new house when I was in seventh grade, I found this to be a big problem for us. We had come from a smaller house and it was only one switch per room, basically. I found myself running across rooms to check if the other switch was down as well. I’ve finally outgrown it, or just become really really lazy.
You’re not alone.
Yeah, I do that too. I hate having the switches not match. It will drive me crazy knowing one is up and the other is down.
you would hate to live at my house. there are 4 rooms here with 2 switches. you can say 5 if you inculde our hallway.
Same here. Up = on, down = off. They have to match damnit!
i also hate when their are two switches and one is up and the other is down – they have to be the same, both down or both up. unless it is a set of three switches – in which case it is ok that one is up, so long as it is the middle switch so it either follows a up, down, up pattern or a down, up, down pattern.
Ugh, I have this issue too and the me too button isn’t working
. My husband doesn’t though… So I had to train him to use the switches appropriately. There were probably 3 weeks at the new house where I had to follow him around the house before bed and make sure all the switches were down.
But what was even worse was at our old apt there was a hall light that had two switches. For the light to be off one switch was up and the other switch was down. Damn near drove me crazy!
In our current house, we have a light switch at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom of the stairs…I can’t stand for one to be up and one to be down when the lights are off…I feel the need to have both to be down when the lights are off, and both to be up when the lights are on….so whenever I’m too tired to put them in their proper positions, I just avert my eyes till later. Unfortunately, they are on the stairway to my room. Urgh.
Same here (the me too button isn’t working). I have multiple switches for my hallways (two switches on one plate each affect different lights) and the both have to be down at the same time (seeing them beside each other in opposite positions drives me crazy).
Our house has three sets of two-switch lights, and two of them are mostly okay. But the pair in the dining room is wired with the wrong polarity – the light is only off when the switches don’t match. It’s been driving me crazy since we bought our house, and I need to rewire one of them.
Mee too…I have solved my problem by only using one of the switches…however, it drives me crazy when my husband turn the light on or off with the “other not utilized”switch
it really bugs me too, usually its the basement but i’m to lazy to go all the way down to the other side to fix it.
Unless you have some sort of electronic controller intervention, the logical nature of electric circuits demands that if the two switches are in the same position (both up, or both down) the power will be off, and the power on only when one switch is up and the other is down.
In my house, there are two light switches at the bottom of the stairs (stair light and hallway light), two at the top (stairs and hallway), and one at the end of the hallway (for the hallway light; it’s next to my room, so I can turn the light off at the last minute after coming up the stairs and crossing the hall). There are only certain combinations that render them all facing the same direction when everything is off, and I keep it that way without even thinking about it, but my parents don’t care at all and mess it up every time. I have to immediately go back and fix it so that they all point up or down.
I have to switch the lights on and off with the switches so that when the light is off, both switches are pointed downwards. It’s just not right to have a switch facing up when the light it controls is off.
I do this. We have two lights for which there are two switches. One of them is okay, when both switches are down the lights are off. If my boyfriend switches it off by putting the switches up I have to fix it. The other one is all wrong, one switch up and one down = lights off and it’s never right and I never know what to do about it.
Same. I never noticed this until my I moved to a new house in 4th grade, where some of the lights had multiple switches for the same light.