I'm so embarrassed now, thinking about how we have to use an extension cord for our Raclette grill... we have an 8-tray Raclette Grill and our neighbors have a 12 tray grill which also made us feel inadequate but at least they have to use an extension cord too.

Writer is in Belgium. I didn't realize that they ate Raclette way up there.

You can do it with a lot of different cheese (not just the official raclette), veggies, meats etc. So it’s quite a versatile concept for a dinner

> didn’t systematically leave redundant pull strings

I don’t leave redundant pull strings and rarely even pre-pull the first one. Only if the conduit is going underground do I pre-pull (before it takes on water).

Install the first with a shop vac and a “mouse” made of thin shopping bag.

When I use a pull string, I pull a replacement one in. In a conduit I expect to get repeated changes, I might install one twice as long plus about 12 feet (4 meters) and tie it off at both ends.

Indeed, my errors here are with all the in-ground conduit in the garden, what a pain :)

As a teenager over 20 years ago, I had my parents put in ethernet after the house was built and I wanted to game in my bedroom haha. At least it was CAT 5E and not just CAT 5 like the electrician wanted to put in.

Overprovisioning when building a home is like the prepper saying: two is one and one is none.

I'm trying to find a good analogy for what it would be called when they have the cheese melting by the fireplace in restaurants.

that’s like going to the bank to pay your mortgage, a real, simple, and yet meatspace operation

Pics or it didn’t happen !

I’m usually improving the max I can get from every place I rent, to be able to host people to have two meat / veggie fondues set + one raclette set, which draws more power than what previous tenant had in their contract