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Post by PolarGreen12 on Apr 25, 2016 21:29:55 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up. Does it control a wall outlet? We have one switch in our living room that controls a wall outlet on the opposite wall. No rhyme or reason to it.
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Post by perumbula on Apr 25, 2016 21:33:26 GMT
Our house has three different kinds of foundation. The original house has a slab, and then there was an addition added on that put in three feet of crawl space foundation and the rest in a basement foundation. It's very weird. The plumbing is odd too, because of that. We have everything in our home running through a water softener except the cold water side of the kitchen faucet. It has it's own supply pipe off the water main. everything else feeds off another supply pipe. There are other things, but those are the big ones.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Apr 25, 2016 21:35:48 GMT
Why they chose to put a tiny kitchen in a 2400 s.f. house is beyond me. If you have 4 BR plus bonus room, you are probably going to need a kitchen that can accommodate more than 2 people at any one time. You can't even open the dishwasher if someone is prepping food and using the counter. I have the same problem in my house. Our house is almost 4000 s.f. and our kitchen is a small galley kitchen...only room for one at time. Not easy when preparing meals for a family of six.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Apr 25, 2016 21:42:14 GMT
The only thing that is unusual is that my house is painted red. We have concrete siding and we chose to have it painted red. I love it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2016 21:55:32 GMT
There's nothing really odd about our apartment, it's a pretty generic new build. The only thing that's interesting is it's built on the site of an old abbatoir and seems to attract an unusual number of stray cats.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2016 22:15:05 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up. Does it control a wall outlet? We have one switch in our living room that controls a wall outlet on the opposite wall. No rhyme or reason to it. Not that we have found. DH plugged lamps into all the outlets in our room to check. Even our closet and bathroom. Nothing.
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Post by whipea on Apr 25, 2016 22:21:41 GMT
Great thread. I have a Brady Bunch House, straight out of the early 70's. Actually it is referred to as shed style, tall fixed glass windows and sloping and flat roof lines. The builder wanted a rustic twist so we have rough cedar window frames/sills and ceilings, can't dust or they shred whatever you are using and have to vacuum. Pain in the neck. Oh, and not a single linen closet.
Mystery light switches too and there were so many exterior doors we had to remove some. I swear there was a bank of sliders then right next to them there was a door. We ended up removing three doors. Plus there used to be a cutout in the master bedroom wall opening up to the stairwell facing a tall fixed glass window. Very 70's and I guess they were taking advantage of the view and lighting but on the opposite wal there are 12 feet of sliding glass windows. We filled in the opening too, bright and loud for a bedroom.
Then the skinny room. The original owner who built the house was a golf pro and he had a long skinny golf club workshop built next to the laundry room with a door of course leading outside. We now use it for storage.
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Post by cmpeter on Apr 25, 2016 23:08:52 GMT
We have the mystery light switch in one room. We have been here 10 years and haven't been able to figure out what it controls.
We have a strange thing on the vaulted ceiling in our living room. It sort of looks like a retractable laundry line (those round ones you see in some hotel room showers). But it's not retractable, just solid. I wish I had been here when we had our home inspection so I could have asked. Dh was here but didn't think to ask.
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Post by Tamhugh on Apr 25, 2016 23:26:54 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up. We have the same thing but in the foyer. We have three switches - one for the inside light and the porch light and the third is "just there". The builder of the house lives next door but he is 80 years old and can't remember what it is for. Also the house was remodeled eleven years ago and we bought it before asking what gives. If I switch it by accident I will make the comment - I guess I opening someone's garage door now. (We have a carport).
I might know the answer to this one. We have three switches in the foyer too, but we know the one connnects to nothing. We had the option of having the house wired for 1. Christmas candles in the windows. Flip the switch and all the candles would light. 2. lowering the chandelier (two story foyer) so that it could be cleaned and bulbs changed. We didn't want to pay the extra money for either one so we have one switch that does nothing. Our builder was surprised because he said most people went for the Christmas candle option.
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Post by Peal on Apr 25, 2016 23:41:43 GMT
We have two banks of switches with mystery switches.
Our house has two water heaters. One is very accessible in a closet in the garage. The other is in a little closet above the stairs. you have to go half way up the stairs turn around lean towards the opposite wall to unlatch the knob. Only people taller than me can do this. I have no idea what you have to do if you need to actually access the heater.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Apr 25, 2016 23:44:37 GMT
We have the mystery light switch in one room. We have been here 10 years and haven't been able to figure out what it controls. We have a strange thing on the vaulted ceiling in our living room. It sort of looks like a retractable laundry line (those round ones you see in some hotel room showers). But it's not retractable, just solid. I wish I had been here when we had our home inspection so I could have asked. Dh was here but didn't think to ask. Ceiling thing might be a cap for a light fixture or drop fan box.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 0:17:02 GMT
At my inlaws old house, the light switch for the bathroom is in the hallway. So you have to turn the light on before you go in and close the door. Took me a while to figure that one out. The light switch for my kitchen is in the living room. Same thing: I have to remember to turn the light on before I go into the kitchen. It's handy when leaving the kitchen/turning the light off, though. I think the oddest thing about my house, though, is that every room is on an outside corner. There are no internal rooms at all. When there's a tornado warning and they say to go into an inside room, I wonder about who built this house.
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Post by Drew on Apr 26, 2016 0:34:15 GMT
I live in a small, very old house. There are 14 interior doorways. Every room is separated by 1 or 2 doorways.
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Post by epeanymous on Apr 26, 2016 0:36:08 GMT
We have two master baths on the basement level.
And both of them have tubs that fill from the ceiling.
WEIRD.
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Post by moodyblue on Apr 26, 2016 0:38:02 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up. We have three places where we have banks of five or six switches. The electrician hung papers with them all neatly labeled which was great until we took the papers down. I'm good with the bank by the front door and the one going into the kitchen. But the bank at the top of the stairs is harder for me to remember. It's not unusual for me to flip two or three on or off before I get the one I want. We do have some that control outlets. If you're testing to find out what they control, be sure to test each outlet (top and bottom), because most of ours only control ONE of the outlets in the box.
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 26, 2016 0:41:37 GMT
The strange thing about my house is it is only 2100 sq ft but we have 2 sets of stairs. One set is off the family room leading up to bedrooms, and the other is right on the other side of it separated by a wall and they go up to other bedrooms.
In the original house plans the rooms were supposed to connect, but we chose to close off the access because we didn't want our son who was a toddler heading down the backstairs while we were sleeping.
It's funny how we made decisions about our house as though our kids would never grow up. We could have left it opened up and just put a lock on the door. Oh well.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 26, 2016 0:47:27 GMT
Our mystery light switch is in our laundry room by the door to the deck. The room lights are on a different wall near the hallway, the outside light switch is in the kitchen by the patio door. There are no other lights on that side of the house outside, and no outlets that that switch operates. We had a different question for the former owners (who built the house) so we asked them about the switch and they didn't know either! It's just weird.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 26, 2016 0:53:57 GMT
I live in a neighborhood that has a lot of cookie cutter type houses. The only thing I can think of is we have a full sized 1/2 sized basement below our first basement level. Most homes like ours have a crawl space instead.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 1:25:08 GMT
Our bedroom is noticeably colder than the rest of the house in the winter and warmer in the summer. It's also South facing so that may play a role in it. Plus we keep the door shut to keep the dog off our bed.
Beyond that, there's nothing odd or strange about the house. I kept hearing this knocking sound at random but solved that.
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Post by lovinlife on Apr 26, 2016 1:30:18 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up. We have one of those in the living room. We've been here 12 years. We are in the middle of a kitchen remodel and removed drywall where that switch is...it has wires going somewhere. I give up lol
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Post by M~ on Apr 26, 2016 2:10:00 GMT
It's haunted!!!
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Post by Zee on Apr 26, 2016 2:14:39 GMT
Nothing, it's five years old. I miss my old quirky house though! Everything we fixed required five trips to the hardware store, minimum. And sometimes a special order.
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Post by chendra on Apr 26, 2016 2:21:45 GMT
Our house was built in 1949 before the advent of television. We have a special little closet with slots designed to hold card tables and folding chairs
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Post by chendra on Apr 26, 2016 2:22:50 GMT
OMG freebird , do you live in a house like in a scary film?! How close are your nearest neighbours? There isn't anything unusual about our house, I don't think. We have the original wooden front door from the 1920s. That's all I've got. haha... no there's a road going by our house. We're just out in the beans. It's great on corn years because you can see nothing but corn. Great privacy fence. I contemplate growing 6 rows of corn around my property every year just to keep the nosies out. haha. I'm about 1/4 mile from my neighbors so they could hear me scream in the night That's good, due to the Children of the Corn and all.
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Post by ~Sherri~ on Apr 26, 2016 2:23:43 GMT
Our home is old, built in the early 1950's. The odd thing about our home is the washer and dryer are in the kitchen. Washing machine is on the left of my stove and the dryer is on the right of my stove. We bought our home 29 years ago and planned to move the washer/dryer when we built on but never did. That space is just an open spot in the back hallway that we use for the litter box and storage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 2:28:36 GMT
We have a full bath with two doors. One door opens to the main upstairs hall and the other door opens to the master bedroom. It is silly! In my defense, it was in the original house plan and not my idea plus I was just 22 years old when we built it.
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Post by cmpeter on Apr 26, 2016 2:38:46 GMT
I don't think that's what it is. It's actually on the wall right up next to the ceiling. Here are a couple pictures...anyone recognize what it is?
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Apr 26, 2016 2:43:53 GMT
I grew up in a "spirited" home. It's an interesting experience.
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Post by gracieplusthree on Apr 26, 2016 2:56:29 GMT
weirdest thing we have is this cabinet/storage area that is over where the dryer goes.. its a couple feet above the top of the dryer and has 2 doors, when I open it the bottom of the *cabinet* is at about my eye level(Im 5ft 5ish ).. ok so I can reach things that are close to the open doors.. problem is that this cabinet area thing is probably 4ft by 4ft and probably 3 1/2ft tall(or however tall to the ceiling) I can stand on the top part of the 3step step ladder/step stool and I still can not reach the back of this *cabinet*.. along the two side walls and the back wall it has a 2level shelf, the rest of the area is just open space..in order to reach the back you'd have to climb up in there, and while it appears to be framed up and sturdy I certainly am not climbing up in there LOL.. and yes I have some things up in there, I have to use a broom to move things around and coax them out,but to be honest it needs cleaned out as most of the stuff up there I have no reason to even keep ..but its the strangest area.. OOHhh and I forgot to mention the *space* behind the dryer also goes back about 2ft farther back than the dryer..space that you can not use, you cant get back there. but if we pushed the dryer all the way back, you would have to duck under the strange cabinet/storage thing above the dryer in order to operate the dryer. its just a horrible use of space. If ever renovated I want that space turned into a linen closet with a door to access it in the hallway--would make so much more sense and actually be useable. You also have to walk through a bedroom to get to the master bedroom---this is because the master is not original to the house.we've dealt with it fine for years and years and even though there are now 2 empty bedrooms thats the room the 18yr old sleeps in. again we've gotten used to it. And the master bathroom.. has ZERO electrical outlets. none. clearly designed by a man. we live on a dairy, so across the road is a wheat/corn field and some woods and the other 3 sides are young heifers and sometimes a few steers.. is normal to us, but sometimes we will have company over that will comment on the cows lol.. and most people don't realize how nosey holsteins can be, they will stand lined up at the fence and watch whatever you are outside doing, and they make noises-- an not just "mooo".. we also have coyotes that will get started up howling and yipping at night too, again something that a lot may not be used too, all stuff we don't even flinch at though.
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Post by leeny on Apr 26, 2016 3:04:41 GMT
We live in a one-of-a-kind house in an old neighborhood. It is on a small lot so someone thought they should build a little one bedroom house. Then the first owner decided they should add on a second bedroom right off the first bedroom with a door to the outside back yard. They built it right over the brick patio - no foundation! When we moved in we picked up the carpet and old asphalt tiles and saw the brick. When dd and dgs lived with us, they had to go through our room to get to the bathroom and the rest of the house.
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