Leviton Almond Duplex Wall Plate problem

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ivsenroute

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Did anyone else have this problem?

Just finished trimming out a house with all almond colored receptacles, switches and matching cover plates. Apparently the duplex cover plates do not match the receptacles and Leviton allegedly knows about this. I had to take the cover plates back and the difference is significant when you look at an almond switch plate. The switches and their plates match but the receptacles and the plates do not.

The GC made me take them all off and replace them. Once I took them back to my distributor, one of the counter guys knew about the problem from another electrician.

The fix is to buy the nylon almond plates which match much better but are almost twice the price. Not that this is a big deal but had I known about this I would not have had to waste time trimming out then removing all of the plates.

The difference is subtle but apparently noticable. Unfortunately, I did not pick up on it during installation.

Anyone else?
 
what most places stock these days is "Light Almond" there is also "Almond" they are differnt colors, and they get mixed up pretty easy on the shelf, check your boxes and make sure the devices and covers say exactly the same thing for the color.
 
ultramegabob said:
what most places stock these days is "Light Almond" there is also "Almond" they are differnt colors, and they get mixed up pretty easy on the shelf, check your boxes and make sure the devices and covers say exactly the same thing for the color.
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Light almond is a P&S plate but other manufacturers use just Almond. I don't believe one manufacturer makes both almond & light almond but I have been known to be worng.
 
I had this same problem on the last house I did in almond except that some of the switches did not even match each other (and no, they weren't light almond) especially sp's compare the 3 & 4 ways and dimmers.

I did pick up on it early and was able to mix & match to a degree but it was still noticeable to me. Luckily the HO never said anything.:D
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Light almond is a P&S plate but other manufacturers use just Almond. I don't believe one manufacturer makes both almond & light almond but I have been known to be worng.
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No way ;)
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Light almond is a P&S plate but other manufacturers use just Almond. I don't believe one manufacturer makes both almond & light almond but I have been known to be worng.
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here is a leviton color chart....
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Light almond is a P&S plate but other manufacturers use just Almond. I don't believe one manufacturer makes both almond & light almond but I have been known to be worng.
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Leviton lists

White
Light Almond
Almond
Ivory
Brown
Gray
Mahogany
Black

in color selection for Decora switches.

The house I was talking about was all Decora.
 
I am going to guess if the part numbers matched on the boxes, someone just mis-packaged one color or the other on some of the plates.
 
This is not the first time that this has happened and I am not the only contractor that the supply house is aware of.

The part numbers matche but the colors were different. I chose and installed almond and the plates were darker but not ivory so they could not have been the "light almond".

Since I have posted, someone else on this forum has also confirmed the same problem so apparently it must be a color problem with Leviton.

I am just curious on how many other electricians have noticed this obvious difference.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Light almond is a P&S plate but other manufacturers use just Almond. I don't believe one manufacturer makes both almond & light almond but I have been known to be worng.
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Check this out. Leviton makes both.
 
ivsenroute said:
The part numbers matche but the colors were different. I chose and installed almond and the plates were darker but not ivory so they could not have been the "light almond".
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you may have actually chose "light almond" that was mis-labeled "almond", and the darker plates may have been properly labeled almond. but whatever the problem was, I dont care for Leviton devices shiny brittle coverplates anyway, I prefer the satin finish that Pass and Seymour has, and the covers are somewhat flexible.
 
Let me clarify something.

The switches and switch plates are correct and match.

The receptacles match the switches and the switch plates.

All packaging numbers match.

I went back to the supply house and they broke open a new box of cover plates and they too were too dark and did not match anything.

This is a color problem with the cover plates for the receptacles.

I am not the first one to have this problem at the supply house.

I can't have light almond receptacles because they match everthing else but the receptacle cover plates.

It is a receptacle cover plate problem.

Now I am curious if the combo plates that have a switch and a receptacle will match. I did not look at them yet.
 
Thankfully nobody uses almond in my area so this is never a problem. ;)

Though HD sells it, so someone must be buying it. :confused: Go to a local supply house and they might have one box of receptacles and one box of switches in almond.
 
ivsenroute said:
This is not the first time that this has happened and I am not the only contractor that the supply house is aware of.

The part numbers matche but the colors were different. I chose and installed almond and the plates were darker but not ivory so they could not have been the "light almond".

Since I have posted, someone else on this forum has also confirmed the same problem so apparently it must be a color problem with Leviton.

I am just curious on how many other electricians have noticed this obvious difference.
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I just don't understand who would want almond, ivory, light almond or anything other than pure white. I've never had that problem as I've never trimmed out an entire house with anything other than pure white.
 
My jobs only use Stainless Steel plates so I don't have this problem. :)


Roger
 
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