Haha! I agree, its a really great thread to read through with some great insight. Maybe its the inner Iowan, but I felt really blessed that I'm not really bothered by a lot anymore. I used to take some stuff home with me, but had to let it go with help from the wife and others to save the marriage! However, I will say that I admire craftsmanship and am in full support of the craftsman here who take issues with imperfection!
I'll see that and raise you a "up is on, down is off"Yes sir all of the cover screws should line up and the ground should be facing the floor !
And the switches also drive me crazy !
There IS a proper order
Keith
And that's why I hate 3 way switches . One's always wrong !!
I did notice that today when I went upstairs and turned light on...switch was up so flipped it down to turn light on. Was gonna turn light off upstairs so switch would be correct when I came downstairs! Look what you're (your
) doing to me lol.
912smoker
as a former plumber, with no plumber's eye...I used to be skinny...it sucks being the skinny guy, guess who gets crawlspace duty lol! As a former plumber...they are water heaters, not hot water heaters...hot water is already hot, no heating needed!
I've been providing life and supplemental benefits to groups for over 30 yrs.
Before that a plumber/elec for 13 yrs. I still check out the outlets in every room to make sure they're all turned the same way and mounted correctly. Take notice of every faucet and still have a "plumbers' eye" and use it on a regular basis ....according to my wife
My father-in-law is a retired master electrician, when my wife and I bought a house, 13 years ago, the previous owners had been trying to flip it cheap, but got caught in the crash. I didn’t notice anything annoying about how they did the wiring, but within less than a day into his friendly visit, he was tearing everything apart. He did about 15k worth of rewiring for free over a week because he couldn’t handle it being below his standards, trust it because it was below his standards, or want his daughter in a house with wiring/switches/outlets below his standards I was pleasantly shocked, even though I had to pay for material I wasn’t expecting…..including dry wall and mud that he did after the wiring….again to his standard! Even if I wanted to argue, it was very clearly not an option for me if I wanted his daughter under that roof! Besides, I learned a lot!
Fueling Around
‘s very good point. I left out that the house was 100 years old. It was a safety issue more than cosmetic.I think they somehow had spliced “knob and tube” to modern wiring. That’s what started the major overhaul, his obsession with details is what stuck in my memory though.
I run a title company and have been at it for my whole life. It's really cool, I work with all sorts of famous names all the time, like James Brown, Steve Miller, and Jim Morrison.
My grandfather owned a sign shop that specialized in neon. I inherited his OCD for graphics. I see it all day long. Here's a good one I saw this past Christmas.
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Not me, 30 years in the printing business, that is both a bad font choice and bad kerning. Just today I got a newsletter from a customer ( A PR firm at that) and they use auto hyphenation in every paragraph. While technically not wrong, it drives me nuts. For those that do not know, auto hyphenation is when a word is too big to fit at the end of a line there is a hyphenation inserted to continue the word on the next line.I figure there's at least a half-dozen OCD freaks in here that just went looking up what "kerning" meant. Go ahead... admit it... I know you're you're in here...
I get that. I had to move a bunch of stuff they way I wanted it, bonus was adding dimmers. Helped rewire my nephew's house and he had 3 and 4 ways all over the place and ONLY the dude who built it coulda understood it. Was probably really slick in the 40s... One of the previous owners didn't help by putting in single poles all over. LOL Our bedrooms all have switch to outlet for lamps. Was not a fan at first but has grown on me. All our closets had pull string lights and HATE them. I came close to rewiring mine for switches a few times like I did in my last house but put it off. One of them went bad recently and I work in a few small gov office that have motion sensor restroom lights and wondered... Found motion activated LED fixtures on Amazon for $17. OMG. Total game changer and making me look at things in another perspective. Just replaced smoke detectors and that is another wild one. I went with units with a built in lithium battery good for 10 years. They're only good for that long anway (Dad retired FD). Under $20 too... Put in a one of those usb power hubs in the kitchen and has been a Godsend. Pretty cool time for this sorta stuff.
