Lol. My home (not even a house, but a flat) is WWII era lol. It has rudimentary electrical installation. Like, it fullfills all requirements…if we back the clock by around 30-40 years. Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason. And I have old communist newspapers as “insulation” in the floor xD
Anyway, what I wanted to say…if you live in similiar conditions, everything that your mind connects to possible shortcircuit somehow manages to reboot you from sleep to full awareness within nanoseconds. xD
I’m a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.
Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes
It sounds like you’d have to wind it back more, 30 years only puts us in the 90s and the stuff you’re talking about sounds like even the 80s would have at a minimum raised eyebrows by the inspectors
DING DING DING. We have a winner! WWII deutsch building then renewed under communist gov*. From that point forward, all changes were made only by flat owners. I have a total hodgepodge of handyman shit in my home xD
God, there really is something there with that “problem!” signal that our brains can give off before any conscious dots have been connected. And this is for abstract shit that you’d figure our monkey brains wouldn’t give a damn about.
Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason.
My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.
We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later… We ended up redoing the whole system.
Wish I could replace it, but heavy case of living from paycheck to paycheck. Thankfully flat isn’t mine but a third party organisation belonging to city, so they cover every electrical f-up that happens.
I…am not sure if knob and tube was even used in EU, and between short search and LLM query the answer seems to be “no”. So this may be the closest EU equivalent to that xD
All in all tho, I can relate to hunting shorts. At this point 5/7 of my mini electrical boxes (can-like shape hole in the wall where cables junction?) were replaced by electrician, because they all shorted to all hell. When I moved in it was worse - I had parallel connection between lightswitch and outlet and similiar shit xD Last owner was a handyman builder and…it was showing. A lot.
Also I have only one circuit on singular fuse so that’s also fun.
Lol. My home (not even a house, but a flat) is WWII era lol. It has rudimentary electrical installation. Like, it fullfills all requirements…if we back the clock by around 30-40 years. Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason. And I have old communist newspapers as “insulation” in the floor xD
Anyway, what I wanted to say…if you live in similiar conditions, everything that your mind connects to possible shortcircuit somehow manages to reboot you from sleep to full awareness within nanoseconds. xD
I’m a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.
Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes
It sounds like you’d have to wind it back more, 30 years only puts us in the 90s and the stuff you’re talking about sounds like even the 80s would have at a minimum raised eyebrows by the inspectors
80’s sound possible, tbh.
No, clearly 30 years ago is the 60’s. I’m not old.
I would accept early 70s but otherwise it’s nonsense
I’m getting Eastern Bloc vibes
DING DING DING. We have a winner! WWII deutsch building then renewed under communist gov*. From that point forward, all changes were made only by flat owners. I have a total hodgepodge of handyman shit in my home xD
* At least from what I know.
God, there really is something there with that “problem!” signal that our brains can give off before any conscious dots have been connected. And this is for abstract shit that you’d figure our monkey brains wouldn’t give a damn about.
But… might be a predator?
Alexa has a wake word. We have wake noises
My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.
We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later… We ended up redoing the whole system.
Wish I could replace it, but heavy case of living from paycheck to paycheck. Thankfully flat isn’t mine but a third party organisation belonging to city, so they cover every electrical f-up that happens.
I…am not sure if knob and tube was even used in EU, and between short search and LLM query the answer seems to be “no”. So this may be the closest EU equivalent to that xD
All in all tho, I can relate to hunting shorts. At this point 5/7 of my mini electrical boxes (can-like shape hole in the wall where cables junction?) were replaced by electrician, because they all shorted to all hell. When I moved in it was worse - I had parallel connection between lightswitch and outlet and similiar shit xD Last owner was a handyman builder and…it was showing. A lot.
Also I have only one circuit on singular fuse so that’s also fun.