>This recalls to mind the last horrorshow of a house I lived in-
>certain combinations of appliances drawing power at the same time
>would reliably trip the breakers . . . but it could be any one of
>3 different breakers that would trip. We decided not to
>investigate the background of this situation too closely, because we
>expected it would fall somewhere between "horribly expensive" and
>"your house was designed by an actual demonologist, a la Ghostbusters"
>on the Sliding Scale of House Malfunctions.

I don't have anything quite that weird here, but, as previously noted, there are... oddities. (And also a lot of out-of-date receptacles without polarization, let alone third prongs.) M y father is convinced that sooner or later, this house will need to be completely rewired, but where exactly the money for that is meant to come from is something of an open question. (Also, there's the small matter of how to do that without, you know, moving out for a month or whatever.)

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