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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
<snip about blown fuses>
My only advice regarding your father is to get a good smoke alarm system. Probably one that is child (or hufter) proof can only be taken apart by (special) tool, so he won't take out the battery when it goes off. Maybe even one of those smart alarms, that will send you a message when it goes off.
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LOL.... taking the light fixtures off the wall and putting them into a dish washing machine? That's like beyond stupid. Nothing holds a candle to that kind of idiocy.
A few smoke detectors are already installed in several places. Regarding the blown fuses... I have a similar tale, of a few years ago. My father's neighbor is an 81-year old woman who as very little family left, and who don't live nearby.
One day, she had a problem with her house's power system, thinking it was 'completely broken'. It's a very old system; the one where you actually replace fuses, not the ones where you just flip a switch to power it on again after something goes wrong. She went to my father, but he was also unable to resolve the problem... so he called me.
After work I visited my father's neighbor and she handed me a box with fuses. None worked (I tried only three or four), so I put a fuse in out of the box I had picked up on the way there, just to be sure I had some working ones. I assumed that, if the system was 'completely broken', it may have blown a bunch of fuses or even all of them.
It immediately powered on and everything worked.
For years (since her husband died, 10 years ago now), she just replaced a broken fuse with a new one, and put the old one in the box, so she ended up with a box containing something like 20 or so broken fuses.
She is actually at the stage now that she doesn't want to replace or change anything her husband has ever touched.
"No, I don't want to replace this power system with a new one. My husband has installed this."
Yes ma'am, he did. In 1964. Maybe it's getting a bit long in the tooth now...