On houses and electrical
The automation of the house continues. We can now control the internal and external garage lights.
I've also determined a couple of things about electricians:
* every box I open has a new unpleasant surprise and a new unpleasant puzzle to solve.
* the actual practice of wiring a house appears to be focused on saving a few hundred dollars of copper, at direct cost to both safety and maintainability.
* the actual practice of wiring boxes is to do as shoddy work as possible as it is possible to get away with.
I don't plan on leaving this house, but if I do, and build or remodel one, the electrical wiring will be very different. More circuits, more breakers, and simpler wiring, at the "cost" of more romex.
Now I understand more deeply why, when my dad would remodel the houses my family grew up in, he would massively overspec the electrical, AND insisted on doing it himself.
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I've also determined a couple of things about electricians:
* every box I open has a new unpleasant surprise and a new unpleasant puzzle to solve.
* the actual practice of wiring a house appears to be focused on saving a few hundred dollars of copper, at direct cost to both safety and maintainability.
* the actual practice of wiring boxes is to do as shoddy work as possible as it is possible to get away with.
I don't plan on leaving this house, but if I do, and build or remodel one, the electrical wiring will be very different. More circuits, more breakers, and simpler wiring, at the "cost" of more romex.
Now I understand more deeply why, when my dad would remodel the houses my family grew up in, he would massively overspec the electrical, AND insisted on doing it himself.
This entry was originally posted at https://fallenpegasus.dreamwidth.org/868780.html. Please comment there using OpenID.