On the one hand I like this... on the other hand, the electrician's assistant in me that tries to be as NEC-compliant as possible is absolutely cringing at a few of the pictures on there.
With that said... a few hundred more dollars, and this could be a proper setup with a proper load centre, breakers, and so on. Simply replace a lot of your home's existing wiring.
The article author claimed they got their landlord's permission first, so I doubt they'll be taking it down when the landlord comes over. They'll just take it down when they move out.
Also... I lived in rented apartments for more than 15 years, and the only time a landlord entered my unit was one time when I explicitly asked her to (there was a water leak, and I was about to leave town and wouldn't be around to let the workers in to fix it). Is this a normal thing? Are landlords constantly visiting their tenants?
I'm a landlord for a property in the UK, I have an agent who does this kind of thing for me as I don't know the regulations and also I don't live in the country, but yes property visits are normal… at least in the UK.
They don't do smoke alarm inspections? AC filter replacements? I've never lived anywhere where they didn't come in multiple times a year just for those things.
Depends. Here the landlord is responsible for providing working smoke detectors at move-in time but the tenant is responsible for periodically testing them and replacing batteries.
It mostly boils down to how nosey your landlord is. If they are constantly stopping by to inspect things or change filters more than a couple times a year it’s probably an excuse to see what you’re up to.
> It mostly boils down to how nosey your landlord is. If they are constantly stopping by to inspect things or change filters more than a couple times a year it’s probably an excuse to see what you’re up to.
Really depends who manages your building. We had the most issue with the landlord who also manages the building. Like tons of inviting themselves over, very nosy and intrusive.
When we moved out and the final inspection date. We cleaned everywhere that is logical ... ground, windows, bathroom, sinks, tubs, glass, kitchen, drawers, .. you name it.
They then demanded on the move out date, that we clean above the doors, i mean, the flat part above the internal doors, outside some small toilet window that had not been cleaned in 10+ years. We even told them, why is this on us when clearly you did not do so with the previous tenant (we only lived there 1 year). No no, it became that dirty in that one year. Yeaaa, bull... May have something to do that we are "foreigners".
Plenty more crazy stuff... locations where you do not even think about like ducting. Imagine when you read this, look around, and imagine the spots where you never think about cleaning because its kind of crazy. They really looked for every excuse to deny our deposit (did not work). We had plenty of pictures from our move in date, and used them against the landlord.
Where as the building we are in now, beyond the move in date, not a single inspection or anything like that. Sure, a few times that they came to do work, like replacing the smoke detectors, or painting, but those are all 3th parties.
Learned the lesson to never rent from somebody who is the landlord and manages the property at the same time. Too much trouble.
With that said... a few hundred more dollars, and this could be a proper setup with a proper load centre, breakers, and so on. Simply replace a lot of your home's existing wiring.