When I went out to the corridor and looked around, I saw that the wiring was very carefully arranged. It looked like a decoration protruding from the wall. If it was connected inside, it would be difficult to find it.
Fortunately, the details are well handled, some traces are easy to find, and the threads are integrated into the bamboo poles. If you want to tamper with these locations, it would be a big project and unlikely.
The most likely thing at the moment is that the problem lies with the so-called connector, or the location of the terminal in the maid's room.
"You guys are really willing to put a lot of thought into this apartment? Every detail, every function, you have to spend a lot of money on these!"
Hearing this, the apartment manager smiled and said: "There is indeed a lot of thought, but this apartment is for middle- and high-level managers of surrounding companies and middle- and lower-level government officials. These people care about the convenience of staying as much as the cost and don't bother.
No one is willing to pay high rent to move in.
My eldest uncle also has another apartment, which was built earlier. Because there is nothing that requires too much effort, the rent is much lower. People who live in it are not satisfied with it and often withdraw from it. The occupancy rate is calculated
It's not as high as here, and the income and profit are also not as high.
As for spending more money, it doesn’t really count. Take the pager as an example. When we rented a house, we blew it up like a flower. In fact, it was just the handset of the telephone that placed the speaking and listening parts separately.
Two rooms.
Including the cost of modifications, installations, wiring, etc., it is actually only the cost of a better phone. Even if you don't install this, the subsequent residents will feel inconvenienced and will ask you to install a maid phone.
You can’t go to the tenants to ask for the additional money, and you have to install a telephone at the same time. Changing the wiring is a waste of effort and money. After all, you can still make money by installing this.”
Lin Mo had an astonished expression on his face, gave a thumbs up and asked with a smile: "You should have hired a special person to do the modification and installation, right? Does this person have some skills in making these things neat?"
"It is true that a special person was hired, but I don't know who it was. I was still in that old apartment at the time! But the maintenance people should know that they were arranged to come over and help the other party. If necessary, I will
Let me ask you a question."
"Then help me ask... There happens to be a hotel that is being renovated. It needs to install some similar pagers to facilitate communication between the service staff and the kitchen and the lobby, so as not to waste time running up and down."
"...Ah..." The apartment manager opened his mouth in surprise and blurted out: "Do you still have a restaurant business?"
"...It's not...I..." After saying that, the apartment manager felt a little regretful and wanted to explain but didn't know how to say it.
"...It's okay, it's okay..." Lin Mo waved his hands indifferently, but didn't say much or explain much, leaving room for unlimited imagination.
"If you arrange the circuits in bamboo poles and wooden frames, you won't have to worry about short circuits and fires, and if there is a malfunction, it will be very cumbersome and laborious to repair, right?"
Xiao Rui raised his eyes and looked at the corners at the top of the stairs, then asked, changing the topic by the way.
"You can rest assured..." the apartment management explained with a smile: "The wires are all imported from large foreign companies, and the wires used are at least two specifications higher than the conventional wires.
In addition, the bus that connects the power supply from outside the apartment and the power tap to the residents on each floor is connected to a thing called a fuse imported from abroad. Once the external power supply is unstable or the internal electrical appliances are short-circuited, the fuse will
The device will burn out in advance to protect the circuit from damage. So far, the thing has been burned out more than a dozen times, but the circuit has never been damaged or repaired."
Lin Mo believes this statement. Circuit fires are nothing more than overloading and poor contact. Using over-standard wires and fuses has basically solved the overload problem. Moreover, there are only a few electrical appliances available in China at this time. Unlike
In later generations, there are all kinds of electrical appliances to choose from. As you add more, you may not pay attention to turning them on too much, which may cause overloading of some lines that are not designed to have insufficient redundancy, just like the lines in some school dormitories.
As for poor contact, this problem usually occurs at the wiring area, but based on the level of professionals hired by the other party, it is unlikely that such a low-level mistake will be made.
And based on the way the boss here dealt with the problem, Lin Mo even felt that he might rather spend more money on wires than connect the wires to each household in the middle, so as to avoid spending money and time on maintenance if problems arise later.
The fact is exactly as Lin Mo expected. The boss did not pull out a main power cord and then pick up the shop at the door of each house. Instead, each household's wires were separately pulled up to the attic, and special distributors were used to distribute power.
The reason is also that it is an old apartment property. It may be that the wiring was not good before. There were many problems with the wiring. Not only there were safety risks, but also money had to be spent on repairs and maintenance. As a result, the residents were not satisfied and kept complaining.
When residents encounter this kind of thing, many simply move out. Some other residents even move out because they are worried that something will happen to them while they live there. Their reputation is also damaged, which affects the rental and rent. After all, the repair and maintenance costs and losses are much higher than that.
The cost of wire is much higher.
Going up to the attic corridor, everyone finally saw the distributor and connector on the wall next to it. The distributor is connected to the main power cord at one end, and has a large number of interfaces at the other end for tapping the wires.
As for the connector, there are a large number of interfaces with sockets at the incoming and outgoing ends. The incoming end is connected to the line corresponding to the pager according to the apartment room number, and the outgoing end is also connected to the corresponding line connected to the servant's room number.
They can be connected freely with a cord with plugs at both ends.
Because the apartment and the maid's room are not tied to each other, after all, not every apartment tenant has a maid or nanny who needs to be accommodated. If they do, they may not be placed in the maid's room. If so, how many people should be accommodated and what the specifications are.
Because the needs of tenants could not be determined, a connector was installed to connect different apartments and maid rooms.
About one-fifth of the apartments in the connector have plugs connected to the maid's room. The corresponding room number is clearly visible on the plug, and the target room is among these one-fifths.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I remember the apartment just now. You didn't seem to have mentioned that he rented a maid's room, right?"
Hearing this, the apartment manager frowned and replied: "He did not rent it, and the maid's room he took over, I remember clearly, was rented by another apartment tenant, not him."
"Are you sure? What's the situation with the other tenant?" Lin Mo said calmly and continued to ask.
"It's absolutely not wrong..." The apartment management said categorically, explaining: "I am responsible for renting out and collecting rent for this apartment. I have a deep impression on that tenant, and I will never make a mistake.
The other party came to the door and asked what kind of apartment there was and how much it cost. After asking, he rented the best apartment directly. I told him that there was a maid's room. Without any introduction, the other party rented one without saying a word.
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It’s not like I’ve never seen someone who’s not short of money, but it’s the first time I’ve seen someone so happy, so I’m very impressed. But I really don’t know what the other person’s situation is.
Since he rented the house, he has rarely seen anyone living in it. My colleagues have seen him enter the room a few times, but I can’t tell if it was the other person. I saw someone go in once and it was not the other person, but the person took it.
When the key opened the door, I didn’t care or ask any questions.”
Lin Mo nodded, pointed to the connector on the wall, and asked, "Then you don't usually check the connector here?"
The apartment management shook his head and explained: "It's clearly marked on it, so there won't be any problems. I usually just pay attention to it when renting and taking over the house, and plug in or remove the plug. If the tenant wants to do it himself,
, then we might as well just provide or take back the plug-in cords, and no one really cares about how they are plugged in here.”
"...Okay..." Lin Mo nodded. After getting the information he wanted, he didn't mind his own business and just asked him to take them to the corresponding servant's room.
The maid's room started with the room number. Obviously when the other party rented the room, it seemed to the apartment manager that the other party pointed to a random room.
The location is at the far end. Because it is an attic and only the two sides of the corridor have windows. Sunlight usually shines in, so the two sides become places for some servants who live here to dry themselves. Generally, no one rents the rooms at both ends, and the other party does not rent them after renting.
No one has lived in it.
When the apartment manager came, he brought spare keys for all the rooms in the building. He was about to use the keys to open the door, but Lin Mo stopped him. He pulled out the clothes hanging on both sides. Lin Mo looked over there from the window and found the outer wall there.
He also opened a small window.
"Can the small window in this maid's room be opened?" Lin Mo retracted and asked the apartment management.
"...It can be opened, it can be opened..." The apartment management nodded quickly and explained: "Because this is an attic. Although it was slightly higher when it was built, only the four rooms at both ends are suitable for windows.
The layout and furnishings of these four rooms are all good. They were originally planned to be rented at a slightly higher rent to households with preferential treatment or more servants. Unexpectedly, they missed leaving a space for drying in the attic.
If they were allowed to dry below or in the home of the householder, and worried about the residents' objections, they were allowed to dry in the aisles on both sides, and these four rooms were never rented out.
At that time, I wanted to inform the other party, but the other party pressed me, so I didn’t say much at the time. I just paid the rent for the other party’s ordinary maid’s room, and planned to change the other party’s room later, but I didn’t expect that the other party never came back after that.
That’s why I remember this maid’s room so clearly.”
"...Then I will break the glass..." Lin Mo asked about the structure of the window. The apartment management was not very clear. He just said that it should be the same as the apartment below. Lin Mo recalled some details that he had glanced at before.
, this window is probably not easy to open from the outside, especially the window next to it has been opened early.
After talking in advance, Lin Mo took off his clothes and climbed out of the window, stepping on the false eaves outside the building. The false eaves were slightly slanted and nearly thirty centimeters wide, and were used for decoration corresponding to the position of the floor.
The window at the end of the corridor is a large window, almost as wide as the corridor. The room next to it has an attic roof that slopes down, so the window is opened closer to the corridor, and the distance between the two is only about one and a half meters.
Lin Mo slowly adjusted his position, facing the wall, holding the corridor window edge with one hand, and then leaning against the wall toward the window of the room. Finally, his body spread out into a large character shape, and finally let the other hand hold the other window edge.
Because the false eaves under his feet were tilted to a certain extent, Lin Mo could only slowly lean forward to the other side, and finally moved to the single window of the room. Only then did he have time to observe carefully, but the curtains were closed and he could not see what was going on inside the room.
After looking around, Lin Mo was sure that he had found the right place, because he finally saw the wire. It was only in a small hole between the window sill and the window frame, so he couldn't find it in the window next to him just now, except for
This small section in this small hole and other locations are buried in the wall.
No! To be precise, it should have been wrapped in mortar. Lin Mo took out a knife and knocked on the window edge, then knocked off a few pieces of mortar, exposing the wires underneath.
The method of concealment used by the other party is similar to the method of scraping mortar outside the wiring in the apartment. A layer of mortar is scraped around the wiring to bury the wiring in it. Because the scraping range has a certain width, the effect is that the wall crossing the wiring is slightly
It's so bulging that even if you take a closer look, you won't necessarily suspect that there's something wrong inside.
As for the small holes between the window sill and the window frame, it seems that the marks have not been scraped. It should be that the holes dug out between the window sill and the window frame were not filled before scraping. The air cavity inside, the fluidity of the mortar before solidification, and the drying
A hole is formed by the combined action of previous water loss and shrinkage.
After observing it, it is true that this window cannot be opened from the outside, because the inside of the window frame is wider than the outside. The wider part is used to position the opening and closing window, block wind, etc. It is so close that it is impossible to even think about it.
Stick something in to open the lock.
Moreover, this window is still a single leaf. If it is a double-leaf window, in order to open and close normally, even if it is tightly closed when it is closed, as long as it is not locked so tightly that it cannot shake, there is still room for breakthrough from the outside.
After all, if you want to open and close, there is no room for movement. If the lock is loose, a big crack can be made with a violent pull from the outside. If the lock is tight, the unlocking tool can be inserted through the two windows by opening and closing slightly.
Window locks with this layout are usually located near the opening and closing.
"Pa..." After Lin Mo looked inside and found no traps, he smashed a piece of glass with an elbow. Because he was covering it with his body, the fragments basically fell on the window sill and the room.
Lin Mo picked up the broken glass from the window sill and threw it into the side of the house. Then he opened the window sash, carefully pulled out the curtains, and leaned into the house. He carefully checked that there were no traps on the curtains before Lin Mo opened them to let the light in.
indoor.
Lin Mo took a general glance around the room and then turned his attention to the door. This was his first inspection target. He didn't enter through the door because he was worried that there was some trap on the door.
There was indeed a mechanism. Lin Mo saw it at a glance. It was on the top of the door. It was probably indoors. The other party didn't do much to cover it up.
It looks like a small device about the size of a thumb, with two wires connected to it. One is connected to the speaker in the house, and there is another wire coming out of the speaker. The wiring direction should be towards the window.
Another wire of the small device was connected to the light switch in the room by the door. Lin Mo suspected that it might be connected to the power supply, and that device was used to control the power disconnection.
