The house behind ours burned to the supporting timbers last night at about 1:30. The flames took hold in minutes -- so fast, so incredibly fast
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I had an office that tried to do that. There were odd links between power to the appliances and the lights even though they were not on the same circuits. That was ignored by management. Then my UPS started shutting off my computer for me and saying that the building had a wiring fault. Management's suggestion was just to remove the UPS and plug directly into the wall because obviously the UPS was bad.
So I did that, and went looking for the fuse box when they weren'ue a fire and had to have the entire fuse box replaced due to odd shorts throughout it. Eek! t around. It was warm to the touch, from the outside of the fuse box. They did concede to call an electrician at that point and he was horrified we were overd
This in an office that was the repository for most of the computer files and all of the hard-copies of over a decade's worth of research. It was scary to think of losing that.
Heh. That sounds like my parents' house. My dad's folks built it in the early/mid 50s, and... Yeah. F Troop sounds about right. Similar wiring issues to yours: bedroom at far north end of house on same circuit as half of kitchen on not-quite totally south end of house & more circuitry oddness; umpteen dozen "wires to nowhere" going through one bit of wall (as in, nobody knows to what said wires were originally connected & when found, said wires were just dangling there). Our breaker box has numbers next to the switches now. And a typed-up code to the numbers taped below that. Because labels won't fit to describe what's on which
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Are you positive my grandparents &/or their local contractor aren't somehow related to your contractor??? Yeah. I can't even remember all of the horribleness of that house. Seriously, in a fit of protectiveness, my brain has muddled those bits of memory.
Mum, of course, can list them for you. Of course, she's the one still trying to figure out how to pay for the repair of the room that was more or less destroyed by rain damage when the ceiling caved in.
I am so, so glad that we're in MS where we don't generally get the kind of cold you get in MA. This house would not survive a northeastern winter. No way, no how. But, at least it's bearable in the humid summers we get? If you caulk the cracks to keep out the state bird, aka the mosquito.
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So I did that, and went looking for the fuse box when they weren'ue a fire and had to have the entire fuse box replaced due to odd shorts throughout it. Eek! t around. It was warm to the touch, from the outside of the fuse box. They did concede to call an electrician at that point and he was horrified we were overd
This in an office that was the repository for most of the computer files and all of the hard-copies of over a decade's worth of research. It was scary to think of losing that.
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Mum, of course, can list them for you. Of course, she's the one still trying to figure out how to pay for the repair of the room that was more or less destroyed by rain damage when the ceiling caved in.
I am so, so glad that we're in MS where we don't generally get the kind of cold you get in MA. This house would not survive a northeastern winter. No way, no how. But, at least it's bearable in the humid summers we get? If you caulk the cracks to keep out the state bird, aka the mosquito.
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