Everyone knows this problem. You have a television on in one room, a fan going in the next and the coffeemaker on in the kitchen. Everything seems to be going Ok, but then someone turns on the blow dryer in the bathroom and suddenly everything goes black. This has got to be one of the most annoying things about owning a home.
I have to wonder sometimes about how people wire their homes.
Mine has got to be up there as one of the worst. I swear whoever was the one to wire this house must have been in a rush. When one circuit in particular flicks off we lose power in the living room, a couple of outlets in the kitchen, the outlet in the bathroom, half of the computer room in the basement, and a few outlets in two of the bedrooms.
My wife seems to think it was the people that built the house, but the house was built in the 1940’s, and most of the wires look relatively newer.
I blame it on the people who lived here before us. As electricians they were good painters (ok so looking at their paint job of the house they might not be good at that either)
It really doesn’t matter who did the wiring, all that matters is that I am the one that will have to fix it. And that might be the scariest thing of all.
2 comments:
do me a favor, when you do fix the wiring please don't be like our grandfather, TURN OFF THE POWER
oh yea and I was there for the whole painting of the kitchen and yea someone was not a very good painter either :-)
just to let you know when I first read your title I was thrown back to childhood and had a vision of you and shawn romine singing "shock me" by kiss ha ha ha oh the memories
Dani, why don't you have pictures?
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