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Beartracks

(14,637 posts)
Wed May 13, 2026, 07:46 PM Yesterday

I have a floppy lightswitch! (And no, this is not a personal problem.) [View all]

To be clear, it is not the plate that's loose, but the actual standard up-and-down switch. It has lost its "snap." While the light still turns on when I push it up, the switch doesn't stay up completely but settles back down a bit from gravity. Similarly, there's no "snap" when pushing it down to turn the light off.

I have a similar problem on a side-to-side switch that has a trio of "rocker" switches for the fan and heater; the middle switch won't "snap" into position for on or off, and sometimes I almost can't get the fan to turn off without jamming on the switch.

Is this a broken switch thing? Or could it just be loose wires in the back somehow causing this problem? I'm just wanting to know what to perhaps expect before I turn off the power and get in there to (hopefully) fix these things.

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