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i learned the hard way that my backyard outdoor porch is also connected to my 2nd floor gfci bathroom
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The fucking retarded wiring that a lot of electricians do, likely out of laziness, really grinds my gears. Our house in California had the stupidest fucking wiring I could've imagined. Just random rooms connected together, likely to save costs somewhere (probably to either save a single GFCI, or to put everything on a single breaker as opposed to separating them out). We'd have two rooms on opposite sides of the house on the same circuit. Figuring that shit out was a nightmare.
 
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The fucking retarded wiring that a lot of electricians do, likely out of laziness, really grinds my gears. Our house in California had the stupidest fucking wiring I could've imagined. Just random rooms connected together, likely to save costs somewhere (probably to either save a single GFCI, or to put everything on a single breaker as opposed to separating them out). We'd have two rooms on opposite sides of the house on the same circuit. Figuring that shit out was a nightmare.
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I discovered the 220V heater in my sons bedroom was wired using one leg from a 110V circuit in his room and another leg from a room on the other side of the house.

Electrical work isnt rocket science but some of those mother fuckers I swear must just be wiring shit by trial and error. "what happens if we connect these two wires? no? how about these two?"
 
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Gravel said:
The fucking retarded wiring that a lot of electricians do, likely out of laziness, really grinds my gears. Our house in California had the stupidest fucking wiring I could've imagined. Just random rooms connected together, likely to save costs somewhere (probably to either save a single GFCI, or to put everything on a single breaker as opposed to separating them out). We'd have two rooms on opposite sides of the house on the same circuit. Figuring that shit out was a nightmare.
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Your wiring was done by an electrician?

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Gravel said:
The fucking retarded wiring that a lot of electricians do, likely out of laziness, really grinds my gears. Our house in California had the stupidest fucking wiring I could've imagined. Just random rooms connected together, likely to save costs somewhere (probably to either save a single GFCI, or to put everything on a single breaker as opposed to separating them out). We'd have two rooms on opposite sides of the house on the same circuit. Figuring that shit out was a nightmare.
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My house is like this. I have one outlet in the laundry room, three of six in my bedroom, one in the master bathroom, my daughter's bedroom can lights, and a random outlet in the living room on one circuit. I have no idea how that's even fucking possible.

I'm currently shopping for an electrician to upgrade my panel anyway to support my garage woodworking shop and EV charging, and since it's all 50's ungrounded wiring I'm seriously tempted to drop the extra $10k and just rewire the whole fucking house in a way that makes sense.

When I was remodeling my bathroom I found a stash of old bourbon bottles inside a stem wall. I think that explains a lot.

Meanwhile, in India:

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Sludig

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When I was renting I had a sudden massive spike in my electric bill to the tune of $1300. After complaining to the landlord a couple times and insisting there was no other explanation, he sent an electrician. Turns out the landlord had installed a bootleg outlet by his pool and the conduit had corroded leaving an active short to ground pulling a steady 1100W that was supposed to be just the lights in the master closet. Oops.
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Makes me nervous about my ghetto outlet we did. outdoor rated buried cable to a single breaker and outlet.

rural old house, we get outrageous electric bills. Some of it is from running space heaters for farm animals in some circumstances, and most of the house is electric. $350 this month. But heck last year we had 550 but that was a month of a plucked emu having space heaters in an uninsured shack.


ordering a kill a wat to try checking some outlets etc, I'll have to have electrician double check any draw from the pool my buddy rigged up. But I'm looking forward to, even if too late with this early summer getting my wood fireplace put in early March.
 
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350$ used to be my high summer Florida bills now they are 500$

mag be time to get solar
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Your state moving to solar/wind is what is causing the goddamn price to go so high. I saw a chart a few days ago showing that our bygod Red state of Texas has a grid that is already almost 1/3rd "green" energy and looks to be 45% battery storage and 25% fossil fuel by 2040. What fucking retards think that prices are going to come down doing that?

If we wanted truly cheaper energy it would be 95% CNG. Fucking idiots.
 
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yup nuclear is the best cheapest widest range and safest - but stupid globohomos have made it the boogeyman
 
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I keep getting emails asking if I want my electricity to switch to solar if I pay some extra monthly fee. Why the fuck would I do that? Why would anyone do that except to virtue signal? How the fuck does that even work anyway?
 
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I keep getting emails asking if I want my electricity to switch to solar if I pay some extra monthly fee. Why the fuck would I do that? Why would anyone do that except to virtue signal? How the fuck does that even work anyway?
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Send me your credit card info, and I'll hook you up to solar, too.

I'll even charge less 'cos you're FOH.
 
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Send me your credit card info, and I'll hook you up to solar, too.

I'll even charge less 'cos you're FOH.
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I’m not even talking about the super obvious scam ones but the shit from my power company saying if I subscribe to some $2/mo plan, then my power consumption eventually generates a credit or some shit. It sounds faker and gayer than crypto.
 
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Palum

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So around here the state/power company has made it basically impossible to achieve net zero cost because of the way they do daily usage cycles and whatever with regular solar. I guess you could go to near zero if you spring for enough power wall or something. But then you're looking at an 80-100k investment which might last what 20 years? The power bill comparison is something like 70K equiv assuming rates rise over time, but you can make money vs pay interest on it (or invest vs pay cash) in the meantime.

It just doesn't make sense right now (for me) except as grid insurance. Still just a green religious tithe.
 
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I’m not even talking about the super obvious scam ones but the shit from my power company saying if I subscribe to some $2/mo plan, then my power consumption eventually generates a credit or some shit. It sounds faker and gayer than crypto.
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The power co is building solar farms, because frying birds and collecting green credits makes their ESG hard.

So, they give you the option to pay into the solar farm. The plan my company had was also stupid but like tipple stupid...

1) you paid into the construction - forever - so, I guess construction AND maintenance - for like 10$ a month - 0 promise of a return, so its just a 10$ a month addition
2) you paid a % of a credit - so a credit counts for $100 of electricity you pay $50 you get half of that credit - I think there is some really lame multiplyer like 1.1 or 1.25 - so lets say you buy a complete credit for 100$ you could get back 110 or 125 in your actual bill credit...IF...
3) the power generated by the solar farm only produces the credits you can buy or invest in, AFTER it "covers" the cost of operating the plan and farm
4) Credits generated (after that random number) then are distributed by average... so 100 people bought 100 credits, and 50 credits were produced, so that 50 credits is spread across the 100 people as half credits.

so, if you bought 1 full credit for 100$, you pay monthly 110$... and the MOST you could get is 110 or 125 or whatever the ratio was. The program was completely stupid.

oh, but you get a little new box on your bill that tells you how many green solar credits you get, so I think lefties use that like porn? so I suppose there is some value out there to someone.
 
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The power co is building solar farms, because frying birds and collecting green credits makes their ESG hard.

So, they give you the option to pay into the solar farm. The plan my company had was also stupid but like tipple stupid...

1) you paid into the construction - forever - so, I guess construction AND maintenance - for like 10$ a month - 0 promise of a return, so its just a 10$ a month addition
2) you paid a % of a credit - so a credit counts for $100 of electricity you pay $50 you get half of that credit - I think there is some really lame multiplyer like 1.1 or 1.25 - so lets say you buy a complete credit for 100$ you could get back 110 or 125 in your actual bill credit...IF...
3) the power generated by the solar farm only produces the credits you can buy or invest in, AFTER it "covers" the cost of operating the plan and farm
4) Credits generated (after that random number) then are distributed by average... so 100 people bought 100 credits, and 50 credits were produced, so that 50 credits is spread across the 100 people as half credits.

so, if you bought 1 full credit for 100$, you pay monthly 110$... and the MOST you could get is 110 or 125 or whatever the ratio was. The program was completely stupid.

oh, but you get a little new box on your bill that tells you how many green solar credits you get, so I think lefties use that like porn? so I suppose there is some value out there to someone.
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Im sure there is some whacked out fucking weirdo out there that doesnt see the correlation to the chinese credit score, but has this brilliant idea of "Why should businesses be the only ones that have to keep a score of how green they are? How can we make everyday citizens have a score as well?!" Without even thinking so far ahead as to what will eventually happen with that information when the average group of AWFL's get it (Affluent White Female Liberal).
 
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Khane

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Considering starting to look at buying a property to use during the winter and possibly rent during the summer. Winters in CT are starting to wear on me, I hate the cold, I hate the snow, and working from home starts to give me serious cabin fever since I don't really enjoy or participate in typical outdoor winter sports/activities.

This is very preliminary, and I haven't even really started researching anything yet. I would rent over a couple winters first most likely to test the waters.

My criteria are fairly simple

1) Must be warm from November through April. With Temps being a minimum of around 55 degrees. Preferably 60+
2) Must be in a relatively nice area, in a state that doesn't have outrageous property taxes
3) Must not be a geriatric snow bird haven. I don't need young and trendy but I'd prefer to have some ability to make social connections with people at least close to my own age (40ish)

I like to golf, and wouldn't mind a good golf scene in the surrounding area but it's not a deal breaker.
 
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Considering starting to look at buying a property to use during the winter and possibly rent during the summer. Winters in CT are starting to wear on me, I hate the cold, I hate the snow, and working from home starts to give me serious cabin fever since I don't really enjoy or participate in typical outdoor winter sports/activities.

This is very preliminary, and I haven't even really started researching anything yet. I would rent over a couple winters first most likely to test the waters.

My criteria are fairly simple

1) Must be warm from November through April. With Temps being a minimum of around 55 degrees. Preferably 60+
2) Must be in a relatively nice area, in a state that doesn't have outrageous property taxes
3) Must not be a geriatric snow bird haven. I don't need young and trendy but I'd prefer to have some ability to make social connections with people at least close to my own age (40ish)

I like to golf, and wouldn't mind a good golf scene in the surrounding area but it's not a deal breaker.
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This post smells like Arizona.

Maybe Florida.
 
Khane

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I think I would prefer Arizona, but there are spots like this in more than the obvious. Texas has great areas like this, for instance. Just casting a wide net to see if someone suggests a place I wouldn't normally consider
 
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