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me trying to keep my sanity in a 100+ year old rental house
(thelemmy.club)
be good friends with your neighbours
there will be leaks
from everywhere
You can never have too many lamps
You can when there is no ground in the electrical.
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
Lamp store is my vibe
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,
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.
Do you want moths? Cause this is how you get moths.
Any frozen pipes?
knocks on wood - not yet!
wood disintegrates
What about lead pipes?
all plumbing replaced with plastic! yayy, for about 30 years
knocks on lead hot fed!
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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