A 7-year-old child told me about Murphy's laws: it turned out that they also apply to construction and repair
I was talking to my 7-year-old nephew a couple of weeks ago, and the boy asked me if I had heard of Murphy's laws. To be honest, at first I thought about the actor Eddie Murphy, but I never heard his laws, so I honestly answered that I did not know.
It turned out that Murphy's Laws is a small collection of 7 phrases that the American soldier Edward A. Murphy derived during his years in the army. The author claims that his laws are universal and apply to any business, whether it be baking banana pancakes or hydropower.
I got interested and found Murphy's Laws on the internet.
Laws No. 1 and No. 2.
"It's not as easy as it sounds ..." and "All work takes more time than you think."
During the construction of the house and its further repairs, I was convinced of this hundreds of times: if you want to make a fence in a month, some restrictions pop up, and the matter drags on for the whole summer. The first two laws work. What about the other five?
Law No. 3.
Of all the possible troubles, the one with the greatest damage will occur.
Situation: there was a power surge in gardening in a nearby alley. In the best scenario, only the street lighting line should have suffered, but a couple of days ago a pump was connected to it, which pumps water for irrigation. And it was he who burned out - according to Murphy's law, the worst trouble came.
Law No. 4.
If the four causes of possible troubles are eliminated in advance, then there is always a fifth.
In other words, you will never be able to foresee all possible difficulties. The neighbor is heated by electricity. He has a gas cylinder for backup. In case of failure and gas infrared stove, he has firewood. But here's the bad luck: the light was turned off, the cylinder's reducer broke, and the firewood, with which it was unlikely that something could happen, was damp due to a leak in the firewood.
Law No. 5.
Events on their own tend to go from bad to worse.
In other words, you can't let everything go by itself - it will be worse.
My example - a rare basement inspection led to the fact that we did not notice the appearance of mold (and this is in a wooden house!).
Law No. 6.
As soon as you begin to do some work, there is another that needs to be done even earlier.
And this situation is familiar to everyone: if you are going to weed a garden bed, there are 10 cases, because of which weeding will be postponed for another week or two.
Law No. 7.
Every solution breeds new problems.
And this means that no matter how hard you work, you still cannot redo all the affairs, and if you live in a private house, and not a human, you will always have something to do.