Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Alright, 7 hours after the issue with the electrics was first noticed, the sparky finally sorted it. Apparently in our main connection box thing (the little black box that connects the main street wires to the house) had a lose connection inside. Apparently that can manifest as crackling in power points, lamps flickering, fire panels making grinding noises, emergency lights going on and smoke alarms acting funny. And, I’m going to sound like a houso here (interestingly, urgent after hours repairs in state care homes are handled by the housing commission maintenance people too), but that was absolutely cooked in the head
But goodness, I’ve always been taught to be like really scared of electricity which I suppose makes sense, but then the electrician is just plodding around with live mains wires and poking them with plyers. That definitely did reassure me that I would’ve been safe though
Also I need to be up in 6 hours, but naturally I’m here bitching on Lemmy about electricity instead of sleeping. Night peoples, and don’t fuck with electricity, unless you’re a confident sparky, in which case, poke away with plyers as much as you’d like!
That’s good that it’s all fixed now but seriously if your power board doesn’t have a safety switch please get one that does.
I think it does? I’m not sure, it’s a fairly cheap one from Kmart but from memory I thought that all the boards Kmart sold had surge protection. I wouldn’t really know how to find out, but I’m like 95% sure it does
It’ll have a little red button on it. It’s a reset button. You hold it in for a few seconds to activate.
One large filling achieved. Now I have a half numb face for a few hours.
Had a 10pm urge to strip my bed so I could have fresh sheets for sleep tonight. Exciting Saturday night being had.
Cat Tax: Mickey having a good snooze under the blanket by my feet.
For anyone who may require some brain-bleach today. 💜
Ahhh when the world is falling apart and nothing is going right - there’s nothing quite like disappearing into an op-shop for a few hours and coming out feeling like a new person (or maybe that’s just me…)
