Kieth ([info]nder) wrote,
@ 2008-09-18 23:19:00
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Tomorrow I'm off to Vegas for the weekend. Cousin's wedding/impromptu family reunion thing.
And I'm going with 17$ to my name. I want to see how much of it I can come back with.

The contractors in this area in the late 60s-early 70s frighten me. I've worked on lots of houses and I don't know how many HUD/Section8 apartment units. I've never had to replace outlets by destroying them. Hell, the 1870s farmhouse was in great shape compared to alot of what I've seen out here.

The outlet face came off with the outlet plate- the screw strip wasn't attached to the outlet core at all. this is the third disintegrating outlet I've changed out in this house. One had actually arced thru the body, eating a hole in the back.

I'm pretty sure this one has 3 live feeds going to it- all bridged, no split outlets (117, 117, and 107V??). I'll test it again after I get back. After the Mercer house, I thought nothing could surprise me electrically.
I was wrong.

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[info]deusinnomen
2008-09-19 11:58 am UTC (link)
*twitch*

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[info]nder
2008-09-19 04:29 pm UTC (link)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that shudders thinking about that place still, lol. I'm starting to miss old school pushbutton light switches and ladderwire runs for phone lines.

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[info]deusinnomen
2008-09-19 05:23 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, pretty much. It was a special house that needed just a little buckets upon buckets of love before it would have been worth nearly what we were paying for it.

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[info]nder
2008-09-19 05:32 pm UTC (link)
what was it, 23 blank power boxes with nothing in them?
and then that goddamned jacuzzi, lol.

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[info]oropher_777
2008-09-19 12:15 pm UTC (link)
Oooh, that's a seriously scary-looking piece of electrical equipment. You are sure that the house won't catch fire from faulty wiring, aren't you?

And Vegas, woot! Ride the roller coaster at NY/NY for me! And wave to Aunt Millie; she lives down the street from the Stratosphere.

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[info]nder
2008-09-19 04:42 pm UTC (link)
I'm sure of nothing when it comes to construction out here. The house before this had shorted lightswitches that ever so quietly arced when in the on position.

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[info]oropher_777
2008-09-19 06:38 pm UTC (link)
The house before this had shorted lightswitches that ever so quietly arced when in the on position.

*hides*

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[info]souptime
2008-09-19 12:18 pm UTC (link)
the late 60s-early 70s - the golden age of porn

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[info]jonyoon
2008-09-19 01:33 pm UTC (link)
WTF? When did you come into my house and mess with my electrical?

That mess looks like what I had to deal with in my multipurpose room about a year ago. Damn thing fell apart after pulling out the plug that was in the top socket.

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[info]nder
2008-09-19 04:35 pm UTC (link)
this region baffles me more and more and more regarding it's incompetence with basic things. how the fuck do these people survive childbirth, lol.

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[info]scurvykat
2008-09-19 02:27 pm UTC (link)
Fun with current!

You never had to deal with the fucked up wiring in Wilson, our happy little trailer hell home before our house was finished. The wiring was from the 1950's and it was aluminum. We couldn't run more than two small appliances at once, and using the oven at the same time as the microwave, vacuum or clothes dryer would result in blowing every fuse we had, or quite possibly just blowing up the whole house.

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[info]nder
2008-09-19 04:39 pm UTC (link)
sounds like the downstairs, lol.
which is supplied by said dissolving outlet, in it's entirety somehow.

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