You're overthinking it since a basic infuser costs less than two boxes of bagged tea.

Oh man, my best friend Sarah had this happen. She lived in this old duplex where the toilet would just randomly run for like a minute every hour at night. She ignored it for months until her water bill jumped from 40 bucks to 180. I went with her to buy a new flapper at Home Depot, cost like 8 dollars. She fixed it in 10 minutes and her bill dropped back down the next month. She felt so dumb but honestly, who even thinks about their toilet parts until it's too late?

My neighbor in southeast Portland had the exact same problem with her 1936 foursquare. We found out that the old knob and tube wiring in these houses can actually act like a giant antenna, interfering with the wireless signals in ways nobody expects. She switched to a z-wave system on a different frequency band and it cut the false alarms in half. The plaster and lathe is definitely part of it, but the old wiring might be messing things up just as much. Might be worth checking if your panel has any of that original wiring still live in the walls.

Oh man, that sounds rough (and way too familiar). Seven viewpoints is a lot to juggle, especially when they don't come together until way late in the book. I've definitely been in discussions like that where half the room is just over it before the story even gets going.

Nah, action beats work fine if you actually set the scene properly first.