2oldman wrote:
Nice insult, but I certainly wouldn't expect or trust any friend to look in on my home every day, as you are implying. There are many tools at our disposal to handle this, humans being one, but not the only one.
It's no worse than your snarky comment about how some us should stay home. If you didn't mean that to be insulting, my apologies, but it sure read that way.
I wouldn't have someone check my place every day but every few days is not unreasonable. I'm not retired so vacations are 1-2 weeks at most and with pets left behind someone needs to come by anyway.
I also don't worry about a 1-2 day problem. I go to work every day for hours on end and my house sits, completely unattended. A pipe could break and run all day without being noticed. That's a risk I'm willing to take. Having the water run for weeks is not as the results could be so much worse. Turning the water completely off in the summer is not an option with an irrigation system.
Technology it great, until it isn't and the point is I would never trust my house to technology alone.
