ULPT: Need a small thing that consume a lot of energy and it is easy to hide

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Vast-Control-332@reddit

Use the oven to heat the house. And also use the heater to preheat the oven. Just turn everything on. Amd leave the fridge open

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TheMagarity@reddit

You can't mine Bitcoin without significant prep and investment. Better to just borrow every friend's PC to mine any GPU based coin, Raven, etc.

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maxxell13@reddit

You can’t PROFITABLY mine bitcoin without prep and investment. But any pc can mine crypto if all you want is heat.

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NutonButter@reddit

Set the heat to 90 with windows open. Or reverse in hot climate.

That's too obvious. Put some shrimp in the shower curtain. Put some in the vent.

If you really want to go above and beyond just punch a hole in the wall and toss some fish, meat, and milk in there, patch it, and paint it. If you patch and paint good they will never ever figure out where the horrible smell is coming from. The smell will absolutely leak through and be horrid. The landlord will go nuts trying to find it. And they will have to tear down the whole wall to make sure it is all out once they do figure it out.

If you want to crank things up to nuclear level do it in every single wall and the ceiling. It cost you a bit in supplies and time but they would have to basically gut the entire place. You'll do way more damage to them than to yourself. It will cost him thousands upon thousands between labor cost, supply cost, and having a unrentable apartment.

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SparkyJesus@reddit

Shit in a freezer bag, freeze it. Take the bag out of the freezer , smash it up, and sprinkle frozen shit glitter everywhere. Into vents, cracks in floorboards, on top of lightbulbs.

Portable or window air conditioners used excessively.
Space heaters, especially high-wattage models.
Additional large refrigerators or freezers.
Washer/dryer units not provided by the landlord.
Unapproved electric water heaters.
Hot tubs or spas requiring continuous heating and filtration.
Portable electric stoves or ovens.

High-Wattage Devices

High-powered audio systems (subwoofers, amplifiers).
Gaming PCs or cryptocurrency mining rigs.
Large or industrial 3D printers.
Electric grills, hot plates, or portable cooking devices.
Professional-grade hair dryers or styling tools.

Industrial or Specialty Equipment

Frequent use of power tools like saws or air compressors.
Industrial welding machines.
Kilns for ceramics or crafts.
High-energy medical devices like oxygen concentrators (if not medically necessary).

Continuous-Use Devices

High-wattage grow lights for indoor plant cultivation.
Large aquarium systems with heating, filtration, and lighting.
Server racks or continuous-use networking equipment.
Electric vehicle chargers, especially makeshift setups.

Prohibited Tenant Actions

Smearing substances or marking walls and surfaces.
Tampering with plumbing or improper disposal of waste.
Overloading circuits with unapproved appliances.
Lighting fires, using unapproved heating devices, or storing flammables.
Negligent damage to windows, doors, or fixtures.
Running utilities excessively or unnecessarily.
Introducing biological or hazardous substances (e.g., improper disposal of animal waste, toxic chemicals).

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PowerlineTyler@reddit

Chat gpt answer is less frustrating than the amount of misinformation you read when you’re actually a professional on the topic. Man, I need to stop taking advice from Reddit.

https://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Ass-Mister/dp/B000OCEWGW

prawns

Wait, what? Even if it's on and heating? I've turned it on and left it cracked open a bit at the top when my furnace did dumb stuff before

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RepublicOfLizard@reddit

I once accidentally plugged my tiny space heater and tiny griddle into the same outlet and tripped my breaker, so do with that information what you will

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Asynjacutie@reddit

You don't do that again.

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Literally my first thought was, “it’s time to season those cast iron pans!”

You have either:

Exceptionally cheap electricity
Poor calculation skills

If you are leaving the country, you can be sure he's not going to send your deposit back, you can grab a crowbar and take down every bit of interior wall in that place and just leave it in a mess on the floor, rip out the ceiling plaster, all of it. P in every corner of every room, just leaving an absolute trash pile, make it worth the deposit.

You would need to have a 20a rated outlet, with 20a wiring. It's not nitpicking, it's standard code for houses these days. Plugging in more than 15a is basically you giving OP an ULPT because it could cause the place to burn down.

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BreathesUnderwater@reddit

That’s why we have 20a rated breakers and 15a rated breakers.

Have a 20a branch circuit? Great - it will also include 12 gauge wiring and 20-amp rated devices. Does your heater require a 20 amp circuit to run? Great, it will include the appropriate NEMA 5-20P plug on the end at minimum.

mrkstr@reddit

Heat is the way to go. Light is easy to generate. It's the year that the bulbs theou off that's expensive. I like your suggestions... Going straight to the heater.

Well it's a dual light, it's in California and it was $300.

For whatever reason, this is what happened to my neighbor. I was trying to pass along a possible ULPT to OP, not to debate what y'all's electricity rates are.

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peskyboner1@reddit

The highest rates in California can be as much as almost 40¢ per kwh. Halogen construction lights are 500w per light. To run up a bill of $300 in two hours, he'd have to be using 1500 lights in his house. I guess it would be more like 1000 lights, plus the AC working overtime to handle the tremendous heat generated.

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i-am-foxymoron@reddit

Actually it can be as much as 62¢ per kwh. A leak in the hot water line wouldn't matter because that's gas, not electricity. His AC unit is new, so it's not that.

Why not just accept the fact that this happened to my neighbor?

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Jizzundheit@reddit

Bruh! Why are you trying to sell us all this $300 bill story like it's a religion?

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i-am-foxymoron@reddit

Because I don't like being made out to be a liar. Which is essentially what you are saying.

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Jizzundheit@reddit

I never did. That bloke's numbers look right to me though - so mistaken, liar, or neighbour of a liar

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Halogen bulbs

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Fluffy_WAR_Bunny@reddit

Tungsten if you really want to burn energy.

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jkreuzig@reddit

I think you meant to say

if he’s paying for water too, constantly run all sources of water

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S11ex@reddit (OP)

Im moving to a different country and he tehncly said, that he will pay only in cash after he gets someone to check and it will take like 2 months

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Smokenmonkey10@reddit

Open the highest graphics game you have like cyberpunk download 4k mods and max out the settings until your computer is lagging and your fans are screaming and just leave it on or just mine crypto.

Turn the heat up to 80 then turn it cool 60 then 80 then 60. More energy is being used to change the temp then to keep it consistent.

Run the washer and dryer all day with towels

Plug in all extra devices and leave a high graphic game open on max brightness

Keep all the lights on in the home including kitchen lights, bathroom lights.

Turn on youtube 24hr 4k compilations on all TV's in the home and make sure to max out the brightness and contrast while turning off any energy savings for

Put a whole frozen chicken in the microwave and turn it on for 60-90 minute increments, you will break the microwave if theres nothing inside

Open your freezer and fridge and turn the temperatures to maximum in both while keeping the door open for 5-10 minutes at a time so that it constantly has to re-cool the space. Could probably use a blow dryer or heat gun to make it faster and use more energy.

Boil large pots of cold water on all 4 burners until they start boil, then pour them out and fill it with cold water again and repeat.

Turn the oven to the highest temp and let it cook.

Regular-Stable-6717@reddit

That is bullshit. As a landlord its sad people act like that. Also as a landlord that includes utilities, I could usually care less how much you use if your rent is on time. Is it possible to just not pay rent for the last month or two? The one thing I am worried about is my plumbing. What would be terrible is if someone constantly dumped oil down the drain creating a horrible problem that could potentially cause tens of thousands dollars worth of damage. If you really want to fuck this guy something like that would be more damaging than some utilities. Or create a slow leak some where in the house that would cause water damage. this is why landlords should be good to their tenants. They can cause lots of damage.

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Plane_freak@reddit

Oven on with door open. Put a big pot of water on and keep that boiling constantly. Most ranges use 30 A at 220 V.

If you can draw just half the rated power and assuming a $0.15/ kWh, you could waste about $12/day of electricity.

If you have one or if you're willing to spend a few bucks (like 30-50) you could get a 50 foot extension cord (or longer, the longer the better), pull your fridge out, and plug it into the extension cord. Thatll increase the ohms (electrical resistance) exponentially, ergo make it take multiple times as much electricity for the same appliance, so itll make just the fridge cost easily upwards of or over $100/mo. You could probably even just leave it coiled up in its packaging and use it that way so you can return it after you leave. (Or not - if it's placed well enough under the fridge it will likely go unnoticed and when the bill spikes itll be the last thing theyll check/suspect. Only issue with that is it probably ends up fucking with the next tennant's bill too.)

If you had regular 220v service with a modest 100A main breaker, at most you could pull 22kW without tripping said breaker.

If you had 10 days left to run that circuit at max output, you'd consume 5280 kWh of energy.

Not sure what utility you use so the average US $/kWh is $0.168/kWh.

At most, you could cost them is $887 with electricity alone.

Some people live in water rich places. Not denying the idea of water depletion. Coal and oil are not renewable. The idea of doing anything to increase cost is likely due to the use of fossil fuels or water.

PriorWriter3041@reddit

If OP can find the space heaters. He says he's on the 10th floor :)

Hair dryers use the same power as a space heater on max, but are way easier to carry. Just borrow a few from friends and let them heat up the house :)

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mustachegiraffe@reddit

Step 1. Organize a Christmas light decorating competition within your (at least 10 floor) building. Include all floors in this.

Step 2. Offer everyone in your building to plug their lights into your outlet. Get an extension cord or encourage your neighbors to get some too if you run out.

Yep, hair dryers is the way to go, their power is usually limited by what can safely be sent through the wires, so there's no household appliances that use more power than a hair dryer.

Plus everyone has them, so easy to borrow some and they're portable

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PriorWriter3041@reddit

Most electric devices actually don't use that much electricity. What consumes alot is heating.

So that'll be the oven, usually around 2500W, a hairdryer, around 2000-2200W and space heaters, around 2500W.

So turn up all heating to the max and potentially borrow hair dryers to let them run, since hair dryers are the most portable high energy device OP will find for cheap.

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CreeperThePro@reddit

This is the life...

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PriorWriter3041@reddit

It's not small, but electric heaters consume alot of energy. Mine runs at 2.5 kW. Not sure of your electricity prices, but here that equates to 1€ per hour.

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_QAyTQ@reddit

Hire a v2g offer discounted charging to smart cars.

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JuaNicolas@reddit

Would you do the same if it were food?

Anything that makes heat will be the easiest way… ovens, electric hob, portable heaters, dishwasher, tumble dryer etc

Charge an EV (even with a granny charger should draw 1.5kW per hr)

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m4cksfx@reddit

An old-type lightbulb, many of them, hidden somewhere unusual? Just think about avoiding a fire, they heat up a fair bit. Or a more basic way, some resistors wired together to just eat electricity without tripping the fuses and emitting light

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FirebirdWriter@reddit

First why are they keeping the deposit? If it's not legal they have a lot of people who can come down on them legally. I don't know the options for small but heavy electrical so I am reminding you of this because sometimes the legal options do work (but piss disc in the uh fusebox?)

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Patrol-007@reddit

None of you are thinking this through properly. Phone in a gas meter, electricity meter and water meter reading that is insanely high.

SmartOpinion69@reddit

1x 14900K + 4x 4090

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aretino2002@reddit

Put an ice pack on the thermostat

Electric kilns (they make small ones) use a shit ton

Fish tank heaters, put a few on max and put them in a bucket of water

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DrMooninite293@reddit

Leave the stove on at whatever the lowest setting is

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adrian123456879@reddit

Bring wood and concrete termites, roaches and bedbugs and other infestations and drop them inside the walls?

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You probably want to stay pretty low though, since this is a fire hazard. And make sure it’s rated for the wattage, so you would need a 120 watt rated resistor behind - might be expensive around $20-$30

Go smaller and you can lower the cost.

You can also use many small resistors, like 10 1200 ohm resistors as 12W each, or 100, 12kOhm 1.2Watt

I wouldn’t install them behind the plug in the wall as it’s a fire hazard - you could easily burn the house down and you don’t want to do that to the next innocent person.

You’re better off, shorting live/neutral to ground - they will have to call an electrician out to find the ground fault, and the place won’t have power until they do.

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There are smarter things still, like remove the anode from the hot water system, so it destroys the plumbing and hot water system - that’s tens of thousands in damages.

Or if there is a ground pump for a basement, they don’t like abrasive in the water, it destroys the pump - so that’s something.

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TolMera@reddit

Oh, to just increase the bill for 10 days - just run heaters, heaters use a big wack of power.

Electric oven? Put it on 450 and leave it running.

Lots of amps at high voltage.

theflamingskull@reddit

Ten of the cheapest Dollar Store space heaters you can find. The fire hazard ones, that are like open toasters.

Just keep an eye on them.

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unwittyusername42@reddit

Dryer on nonstop, if your oven is electric leave that on all the time, run hot water constantly, buy space heaters for each circuit and run them all the time (buy them from a place you can just return them). That's going to make the house pretty hot so if you have air conditioning make sure to turn that on to counteract all the heat you're causing.

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Fishmayne@reddit

Turn a room into a sauna with 2 electric space heaters

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shadowdog21@reddit

Electric heaters, blow dryers, toasters.... it all adds up.

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Danieljoe1@reddit

Pshhhh..... turn on the hot water taps. Tub, sinks, all of them. Keep that water heater churning 24/7

Have a window mounted AC? Put it outside and turn it on.

Door to the fridge/freezer.... oops, didn't know I left it open

Did I leave the oven on? Nope, broiler actually

Exaust fans, bathrooms/range hood

It's Christmas, leave the Christmas lights on ALL the time.

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sturdei2330@reddit

Using power is only going to cost a couple hundred at most.

Classic from the UK. Unscrew the curtain rods and slide in a small fresh fish. Like a sprat or a herring.

Screw it together. Takes a while , but the unfindable vague smell will be utterly maddening.

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parasiticporkroast@reddit

OooOo nice. And garlic? Poopoo particles in light bulbs? Hell, carved out s mall section of the wall, throw some stuff in then fix it.

Does it cost you money? Yeah, but spite strengthens me.

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Every3Years@reddit

You play with poop for fun dontcha me lad oh me sweet sweet laddie

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parasiticporkroast@reddit

Are you irish??

And no, but if I was gonna fuck someone's shit up that's how I'd do it. Literally shit.

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lehighwiz@reddit

safely place at least one electric space heater, run the AC on full blast, electric oven, electric toaster oven if you have one, they are gigantic consumers.

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No_Accident2331@reddit

Crypto miners

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Every3Years@reddit

Murder a buncha dudes that mine crypt in the basement

Blame the landlord

Hide a raw egg in the intake vent. Don't crack it or alter it in any way.

Anything that heats, followed or combined with anything that cools.

Heaters and AC units are the biggest energy hogs out there. This includes electric stoves/ovens and refrigerators. Turn everything on. Borrow space heaters and window AC units to blast out of the windows.

But, where do you live? Most states have renters' rights, and him unjustly keeping your deposit may be illegal. You can sue him for this and get even more back if you win.

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nothingtoseehere879@reddit

Radiant style heater in the garage.

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Rizak@reddit

Anything that generates heat will use the most amount of electricity. Electrical heat generation is always inefficient.

If you’re not committed to electricity…small water leaks can become huge amounts of money. A bad seal on a toilet flat could cost hundreds per month and EASILY slip below the radar.

how much oil are you willing to buy?

if your apartment complex has some kind of public bathroom, the sink is a great friend

costly repairs

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