me trying to keep my sanity in a 100+ year old rental house

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can never have too many lamps

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    but the zigbee has trouble with the fuckin lead paint or something. this place is hard on some radio signals. and keeping warm. and keeping bugs out. and the floors being out of level, but differently depending on how humid it is and,

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can when there is no ground in the electrical.

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    • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      luckily the electrical has been installed and replaced twice in this place. thankful for that at least! i don’t believe it originally had anything resembling modern electrical outlets till this house was 20 years old!

      but no low voltage cabling installed : (

      i got fiber and cat and coax running next to the walls haha. looks a little steam punk

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• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve purchased enough cans of spray foam that I think on average its probably down to a 70-80 year old house on average.

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    that shit can be dangerous. i haven’t touched it since the incident

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    • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well huffing expanding foam is certainly gonna lead to a incident

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• Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Any frozen pipes?

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    knocks on wood not yet

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    • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      wood disintegrates

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    • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What about lead pipes?

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• jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  be good friends with your neighbours

  there will be leaks

  from everywhere

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    the cross-the-street neighbors leave their dog outside forever : (

    i already have two rescue dogs that drive me crazy or id go save that one too!

    animal control here is the inspiration for the parks and rec duo, but no good weed

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you want moths? Cause this is how you get moths.

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    bröther

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