I went to put in an outlet with charging ports and found this monstrosity behind the wall plate. The box is filled with expanding foam, I'm guessing as some kind of support? Then painted all over. I scraped it all out, put in outlet spacers and its much better. I think there's foam around the box too, but I'm not gonna worry about that (yet).
Now I get to spend next weekend replacing all the outlets in the house just in case there's any more sketchy "fixes" 🫠
After cleaning and replacing:
Done this twice now with both houses I have owned. The main reason, I absolutely hate attempting to plug something in only to have it fall out of the outlet. It annoys the shit out of me.
It's also not safe around kids or pets and it's a fire hazard.
I also like outlets on a switch to be upside down so you can visually see them easily.