Last year we had the joy of finding out that a 20 year roof lasts about 20 years. Well, this year, we found out that stuff that electrical boxes can also be 20 year boxes and, yep, our house has one of those too.
Wait. *HAD*. We now have stuff that meets the code requirements of 2023.
But that entailed a guy coming out to the house which means that the kitties had to be locked up into the kitten room and we got to spend a day without power and… ugh. This is the stuff that it feels like you don’t get told when you buy a house. “You’re going to have your hot water heater blow up in the middle of the day and it’s going to take a couple of days to mitigate the basement flooding. Oh, you’re going to need to get a new roof every couple of decades. Your electrical box? Yeah, that’s got an expiration date too.
Ah, well. Count your blessings, I guess.
Now we’ll have awesome electricity for another couple of decades.
So this weekend will be spent recovering from having strangers in the basement while the kitties were behind a closed door. Maribou’s besties are coming over and I’ll be making breakfast (breakfast quesadillas, I think) and, of course, doing laundry and knowing that there is absolutely zero chance that the dryer will trip the breaker.
I mean, it never did in the past. But now it doubly won’t.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Equals”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
Was the old roof impact resistant? When we replaced an old roof with an impact-resistant one, there was a modest drop in our homeowners insurance rate.Report
I’m sure it wasn’t. And we talked to our insurance and got a tiny reduction since our old 20 year roof got replaced with a 25 year roof.
It seems an unseemly thing to complain about, really.Report
This one is impact-resistant, and it was a decent reduction actually, it’s just that other stuff went up at the same time. (Yes, I’m the paperwork nerd in our house.)Report
Mister Brightside was released 20 years ago today.
This is like listening to Led Zeppelin’s “The Ocean” in 1993.
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