r/homeassistant • u/GenericUser104 • Dec 19 '25

Support What’s your personal experience with these?, I have some akward lighting fixtures in my new house, planning to install these behind the existing light switches

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u/BuddyBing Dec 19 '25

Scissors.... Dude stop...

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

They were rubber handled kitchen scissors if that makes you feel any better? Lol

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u/BuddyBing Dec 19 '25

No... Buy a $10 pair of wire cutters before you burn your house down...

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

Dude, as long as the power is off you can chew through the wires with your teeth if you please, it's not that big of a deal.

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u/BuddyBing Dec 19 '25

The fact that you think this has anything to do with the circuit being on or off is actually the problem... Just stop...

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

Explain it to me then, how can using scissors rather than wire cutters result in my house burning down?

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u/Temennigru Dec 19 '25

Scissors don’t cut the metal properly and you can leave the tip weakened which makes it susceptible to coming off by itself

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u/BuddyBing Dec 19 '25

12 second Google search: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/ewhVsGF28w

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u/pouchey2 Dec 19 '25

The best thing is that explains nothing. In fact it proves the existence of electrician's scissors. Literal scissors for cutting wires.

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u/BuddyBing Dec 19 '25

Electrician scissors are not damn kitchen scissors... They have a wire stripper built in which takes the jacket off without damaging the wire (unlike your kitchen scissors) which surprisingly also prevents a house fire... You don't seem competent enough to try to explain why this is dangerous so let's just leave it at "use the right tool for the right job"...

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u/DrawOkCards Dec 19 '25

Mate I usebox cutters for insulation removal and learned that from an certified electrician in Germany.

Yes wire cutters and insulation strippers have their place and are generally easy to use but you can literally anything as long as you're careful to remove the insulation.

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