Do the Twist

[primsong]

Ah, the quirks of homemade housing! We've just discovered that every single light fixture in the new house is wired exactly backwards. This means if someone were to say, stick a tool in to get a broken bulb end out or something they would get a very nasty shock - not to mention it being against code. Sigh. Lots of fixtures to have to take back down and rewire. Bleah. At least light fixtures is one thing I know how to do - I can twist wires together with those little wire nuts just like a pro. ;-)

Moved a large couch to make way for the carpet-cleaning guys - shouldn't have done that. Going to be quite stiff tomorrow I think - I need a super-muscles suit that I can zip into when this sort of thing comes up. I'm still shoving whatever I can fit into my station wagon and hauling it as much as I can by myself, so I really *could* too.


And lookee! I remembered to update my journal! Aren't you all proud of me? :-D

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[irascian.livejournal.com]

My brother has just bought a new house and they have the same problems. They've discovered the place is a death trap after 30 years of really bad DIY by the owner and are now having to completely rewire the place from scratch. Nightmare!

Mind you it is very satisfying to sort these problems out yourself. I see Pip is feeling great after giving her pad a spring clean and I spent yesterday mucking my place out and am feeling very smug having finally got the gollum picture I bought at Collectormania over a year ago finally properly wired up and on the wall together with the new John Howe and Alan Lee litho's. Still a lot to do but hard graft is good for the soul (if not muscle pain!)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

We already had to move or replace many of the light switches, so we should have guessed something would come up with the fixtures themselves. The guy who built this one was more of an engineer than an architect, so it's pretty much built like a tank, but has some odd quirks in design. Thank goodness my father-in-law knows wiring - used to work for the telephone company for many years - and did the lion's share of the work for us or it would have really run up (another) bill.

I haven't gotten to the hanging pictures stage yet, but want to shop for a nice 'art light' to shine on my collection of works from Colleen Doran - that Glorfindel is still my favorite. I doubt she's had time to do much new stuff, but I'll check in with her in Pasadena just in case.