As I’ve written on other posts, I began an upgrade to the knob-and-tube electrical service at the Albany house about a year-and-a-half back. At the time, I negotiated with the electrician to divide the upgrade into more affordable parts. This did not take the house off of knob-and-tube wiring. Instead, it brought a new service to the house with a new mains panel. The basement level was upgraded with the upstairs living space yet to come. The installation of more proper grounding and the removal of old electrical systems downstairs provided some amelioration of the mobbing but could not confirm how much of the vulnerability to mobbing might be mitigated with a whole-house electrical upgrade. I hope to also add some beefy ground rod as the balance of the work is completed.
So I’ve continued to shut down the main breaker before bed for the greatest quieting of mobbing noise and amelioration. And the mobbers have responded with exploits leveraging other flows that at least become more obvious. Hence the recent posts talking about irrigation drainage, catchment and other lower pressure systems upstream from the sewer lateral that may well be shared with the lowlife house next door — it would probably take visualizing it with a camera to know, or perhaps an in-person visit to Albany’s tight-lipped Public Works Department that refused to respond even to queries I copied to higher-ups in Albany city governance.
But in the last week I tried keeping the knob-and-tube side of the new service shut down until it was time to remove the cold packs from the refrigerator and allow the compressor to begin its “noisy” cycling. This meant no knob-and-tube was enabled in the house. I find running a lower gauge extension cord or two out a window to one of the bright and shiny outlets in the rewired basement is adequate for my needs into the afternoon. Moreover, at least today it was harder for the mobbers to man-in-the-middle my Sonic fiber and run verbal abuse over my weekend NPR shows.
