Weird dream
This morning I laughed myself awake from an odd dream I was having.
Our experiences with the cottage rehab so far have been enlightening, and often downright surprising. Things like severed headers above doorways; repairs halfway made to floor joists; lack of anything square, plumb, and level; and burned, short, and otherwise recycled 2x4s used as studs, to name just a few. Construction techniques so haphazard that we just shake our heads in disbelief. In fact, our noggins are sore due to the constant slapping of our palms against our foreheads.
A previous post detailed some of the substandard electrical work found throughout the place. I must have had this on my mind as I fell asleep last night. In my dream I envisioned a previous electrician wiring the house so cheaply that they didn't use circuit breakers.
Instead they used circuit benders.
Our experiences with the cottage rehab so far have been enlightening, and often downright surprising. Things like severed headers above doorways; repairs halfway made to floor joists; lack of anything square, plumb, and level; and burned, short, and otherwise recycled 2x4s used as studs, to name just a few. Construction techniques so haphazard that we just shake our heads in disbelief. In fact, our noggins are sore due to the constant slapping of our palms against our foreheads.
A previous post detailed some of the substandard electrical work found throughout the place. I must have had this on my mind as I fell asleep last night. In my dream I envisioned a previous electrician wiring the house so cheaply that they didn't use circuit breakers.
Instead they used circuit benders.
1 Comments:
Hey this looks like MY house! :) Is this the same Mike Yuhas that was/is involved with Folk Radio? can't be too many peole with that name running around.
My house - Oregon Coast mountains dry-rotted cottage built 1951, not remodeled or fixed since, until we got it in 1999. Funds are limited, we go slow... i chuckled in familiarity at the your electrical post. Ditto the one about things falling out of the ceiling, great pictures of vernacular archaeology in action. I keep finding toy soldiers, marbles, empty bullet shells, beer bottles....
Great concept for a blog keep the common history coming!
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