Comment on ideas for deadspace behind fridge
Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So odd. The trim on the left has a notch cut in it to accommodate the light switch cover? Seems like it would have been easier to move the box on inch to the right or cut the plastic cover rather than the trim? Why not make better use of the space by accessing it from another wall? This looks like a novice handyman’s work. It would make me worry about what you can’t see.
Jayb151@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Agreed. We moved out to “the country” a few months ago and there are a lot of little… “Why’d they do it that way,” kind of stuff.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I bought a house in the inner city like that. Some things off the top of my head: wiring from a wall switch to the ceiling light was wired with an extension cord. Not a heavy duty orange one, the brown twisty kind you would use for Christmas lights. Knob and tube wiring that was capped at a dead end (no junction box) protruding from a hole in a closet. At the panel everything was updated romex so it was tied in somewhere. Never figured out where. Wires were sliced together in the kitchen ceiling without being in a junction box, squirrels got in and would cause it to short out.
An outlet tester costs $10 and will tell you if outlets are wired properly.