Balancing Acts 2

I'll be careful.

I can normally fix it when it goes crazy. Although it hasn't done this before. Proper electricians are so expensive though. I'll see if any of my friends, have friends who can help me.

Your house sounds really scary. I'd freak out if my lightbulbs kept blowing out.

It's because it's a really old house. I thought I'd fixed it because it used to just happen every so often, you piss around with the fuse box, replace the bulb and it would all be sorted. And the last time it happened was aaaaaages ago, and the problem with the burglar alarm and the smoke alarm were both sorted.

But now it's all gone apeshit again.

I've just turned everything of at the main switchboard in the pantry as it's getting ridiculous and the noise it makes each time now sounds a bit dangerous. It's kind of a crackly pop sound. So yeah I've just turned it all off.

So I'm now just going round putting little lights in each of the main rooms as the plugs are all still working, and candles so that when it gets dark it's not a problem.

Cor, you're so organised Lexus.

And omg you have a pantry? Are you like...Victorian or something?

We live in a Victorian terrace. So YES.

We have a cellar too. It's gross down there though.

The alarm won't stop going off I don't know what to do.
I get it to stop, go upstairs sit down, and it goes off again. If I turn it off completely it makes a lous bleepy noise on the outside of the house.

*sigh*

I have to be organised. I ain't cooking tea in the dark.

Haha awesome. Have you got one of those super hench fires?

I've always wanted a cellar, just so I can put a few bottles of wine down there and say I've got a wine cellar, haha.

If you fill it up with no more nails it shuts it up. That's what my dad did to one when the people were on holiday and it was going off until about 4 in the morning. He was just like 'Oh ffs I'm sick of this - Chris! Get the ladder!'

So yeah, no more nails, or alternatively, a baseball bat.

We do indeed. The lounge is the only one that's a proper open fire that works. But there are also fireplaces in my room, Rob's room, Tom's room and the play room.

All the rooms on that side of the house have fireplaces, but they're just holes that lead up to the chimney. Not so good in hail storms. It's too expensive to get them properly blocked though so we used plywood and covered them up with things like sofas and chest of drawers. Hardcore.

Everyone always wants to go in the cellar. I never understand why, I guess it's exciting if you don't have one. Ours got flooded in the bad weather though . It's probably all damp and mouldy in there now, I daren't go and look.

I can just imagine if an alarm man comes and looks at it.
"You say your alarm isn't working"
"Yes"
"Have you considered the fact that it is filled with no more nails could be responsible"
"No it stopped working before I did that"
"I see..."

That's gonna be a really great thing to have to explain. "Oh yeah my friend told me it would shut it up."

Well it DOES shut it up.

If they had supplied you with a decent alarm in the first place, you wouldn't NEED to fill it with no more nails, hahah.

That is very true.

I need to do something because the stupid woman across the street is twitching her net curtains and watching us. Idiot.

Hahahah 'twitching her net curtains'.

To be fair though, Lexus, it is hellishly annoying when an alarm won't shut up.

Can't you call the alarm place or something? Don't they have the ability to disable it, or at least tell you how to? If not, you need to get your hands on some no more nails.

Screw it. I'm gonna go sort it out.

WHEEEEEYYYYYY.

No more nails or baseball bat?

Neither. A screw driver and some limited technical knowhow.

I took the front off it and pulled a few wires out. And it's stopped. I'll get someone to sort it out when I have some spare cash. At least I havn't broken it in such a way that we'll need a complete new one though.

Hahaha you just pulled some wires out? YOU GO GIRL!

Ya.

I totally have the skillz to be an electrician.

Oh deffers blad.

How many pages have we taken over? *goes to check*

6 pages.

Only six posts haven't been made by us.

Thread takeover.

RAWR.

I've taken the alarm battery upstairs with me. This way it cannot possibly go off again.

Unless it has a backup programme... in which case, more wires will need to be removed, not just the ones I know to be power cables.

I know, it's terrible, but at least we've stopped bombarding the HP board, which I'm sure everyone else there is quite glad about.

You're a vandal mate. Alarms shrink away in fear when they see you. You're like the Voldemort of the alarm world.

And possibly my alarm imagination is running away with me.

Yeah people on here a used to our antics. Some even find us amusing. So we'll stay here Let HP rest for a bit. then return for more hi-jacking.

The Voldemort of the alarm world. *squee*