Thursday, December 9, 2010

Pronging It Up

When we first looked at The Serpico House, it didn't occur to me to pay attention to the power outlets around the house. Why not? Well, I guess I was just too busy taking everything in, wandering around and trying to keep Xavier from getting into everything.

So, after messing around in the house for a while, something has become very clear: every electrical outlet in the house is a two-pronger.
Like this.


But that's not what we want. Nope. We want three-prong outlets--our dumb electronic gizmos demand three-prong action... or a little plastic thingy to convert them to two-prongs.

Yeah. I guess it's OK to have a couple of these things in your house, but nobody wants to have to use them every outlet.

So we're going to have to upgrade.

This should be fun. Neither of us knows much about handling electricity, but we do know that we don't want to touch any live wires. Duh. Having said this much, after reading a bit and watching videos of the process, I feel like we should be able to do it ourselves.... but I'd be a big, fat liar if I told you I wasn't a little bit scared to try.
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  1. LauraDecember 9, 2010 at 5:53 PM

    You'll do fine, as long as you turn the breakers off first. Replacing switches and outlets and [most] light fixtures is totally easy once you've gotten over the hump of doing the first one. And *I* think it's fun. But then, I'm a big dork like that. ;)

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  2. ErikDecember 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM

    Yeah, I think it'll be OK, too. And the idea of paying some off-duty electrician a pile of bucks to throw $5 parts around really chaps my butt, so we're definitely going to at least try to do it ourselves.

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