Plug in a timer/smart power strip to cut phantom load on the entertainment center -- a renter's apartment near the 2100 block of US-75/FM 1417, Sherman, TX 75090 (Grayson County).

A renter's TV, game console, cable box and speakers draw standby power around the clock because nobody can rewire the unit's outlets -- but a power strip with its own switch or schedule sits between the wall and the devices without touching the building at all.

Where

a renter's apartment near the 2100 block of US-75/FM 1417, Sherman, TX 75090 (Grayson County); renter-occupied unit, best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed · Open the map

Pay

$80 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before plug-load reading per device + installed power-strip photo + schedule/switch-setting photo + after plug-load reading + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-19

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. With the resident, identify the outlet-fed device cluster with the highest standby draw (entertainment center, home office, or countertop appliances) and confirm every device stays plugged into a single wall outlet today.
2. 2. Record the standby wattage of each device with a plug-load meter while the devices sit idle or off but still plugged directly into the wall.
3. 3. Plug the timer or smart power strip into the wall outlet, then plug the device cluster into the strip's switched or scheduled outlets, leaving any always-on device (router, clock) on the strip's unswitched outlet where it has one.
4. 4. Set the strip's schedule or master-switch behavior to match the household's actual routine -- off overnight, off when the TV's own remote signals sleep, or a manual master switch by the door.
5. 5. Re-measure standby draw at the wall with the strip in its off or scheduled state and record the reduction against the before reading.
6. 6. Photograph the installed strip and confirm with the resident that unplugging it at move-out returns the outlet to its original, untouched state.

What counts as done

• Before standby-wattage reading per device with a plug-load meter
• Photo of the installed timer/smart power strip between the wall outlet and the device cluster
• Photo of the schedule or switch setting matched to the household's routine
• After standby-wattage reading confirming the reduction
• Confirmation the wall outlet itself was not modified -- the strip unplugs clean at move-out

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.