Used house surprises, even 10 years later

[Jaime C]

We’ve been having peculiar electrical issues in our house this week. Tripping both upstairs and downstairs breakers at the same time. No air fryer or microwave usage, and not during a time all lights are on.

I ended up turning my 1/2 pk AC off a couple of nights. Then it happened again at about 2am, yesterday when the AC was already off.

My wife called PLN, and a tech showed up in a couple of hours.

Even though we did a huge top to bottom remodel on the house when we bought it 10 years ago, some rooms we basically left alone. Seems the electrical wiring going to the guest bathroom on the main floor was pretty badly done. A couple of breakers needed replacing, too.

We paid the PLN guy about 550k, with receipt. Hopefully no more problems.

 

[jstar]

Eh, 10 years over here is practically the time a major renovation (read: rebuild) is necessary again.

Hyoerboling a bit but you get my drift.

Talking about flipping circuit breakers (MCB’s) and electrical wiring electrocuting multiple cats on the roof:

 

[Bad_azz]

For us after 13 years it seems to be all the plumbing; pipes either splitting or growing holes- it is a never ending bocor hunt.

 

[marcus]

Luckily in 21 years our small & badly built (but electrical installation better than the one in Jstar's photos) house had only 1 important recent problem so far : the plastic sewage pipes broke & blocked so we could not use our toilet for around 4 days . But we will soon need to change the rusted rain water collector in the roof .