Before leaving for Iowa, I arranged for an electrician to come and take care of a few things for me. I'd had a problem with my bathroom outlet tripping whenever I turned on the kitchen light, and I had a couple of weirdly placed (and just plain ugly) light fixtures that I wanted removed.
He came by on Monday afternoon, and promptly had the outlet fixed, which is very nice. He also removed the offensive fixtures, and not only that, he replaced them with new recess lighting. My bedroom now feels very fashionable.
The electrician is also a firefighter. Seriously, could there be any better job combination there? Anyhoo, it seems that my house is old enough that it was wired with aluminum instead of copper wire. Apparently there were only a few years where that was legal, due to the high cost of copper. Go figure that I would be one to buy a house from that era. But it also seems that it is a bit of a fire hazard. So he recommends redoing all the outlets and switches, and splicing in copper wire to decrease that hazard. I guess I'm game for anything recommended to me by a firefighter, so I'll be inviting him back later this year to take care of that. But in the meantime, you can bet I'll be enjoying my new recess lights!
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