I hate remodeling. Post remodel stuff here

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  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hawks said:

    Five years in the making and still not done with demo...😒

    You must love remodeling, seeing as you don't want this job to end.

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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hawks said:



    Five years in the making and still not done with demo...😒

    I understand that.
    Remodeling sucks. But wort it in the end.

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  • Hawks
    Hawks Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2023

    @peter4jc said:

    @Hawks said:

    Five years in the making and still not done with demo...😒

    You must love remodeling, seeing as you don't want this job to end.

    Indeed, I must.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,361 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks great, Glenn.

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  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice job on your man-paddy-o @VegasFrank! Very nice indeed!

    I had to do a double-take, looking at your photo in Whatareyousmokingthismorning.

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  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,389 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    Nice job on your man-paddy-o @VegasFrank! Very nice indeed!

    I had to do a double-take, looking at your photo in Whatareyousmokingthismorning.

    Lol thanks Peter! It's gettin there....

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  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is this wiring normal? The short white ground wire is strange to me. What is its purpose? Also, the light brown color for the hot wires is strange to me. I replaced this receptacle because I assumed it was responsible for tripping the breaker when the washing machine was running. (Not my house) Notice the black charred area, that to me indicates arcing. I trimmed a few brittle wires back a bit, and rewired them all to the posts of the new receptacle instead of speed wiring it in the back like it was. However, I did not reinstall the short white wire from the ground to the neutral post. The guy at Lowe’s thought it looked fishy and another guy at an electrical supply company couldn’t explain why it would be wired like that. But I figured I would ask y’all. Should I have wired it back just like I found it? Or did I do best by leaving it off?

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They make a little electronic dookickey that you plug into an outlet and will indicate if it's wired properly. About 2" long with a few red and yellow leds on it. Haven't seen one in a while, though.

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  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    White wire (and gray) are grounded conductors. The grounded conductor is connected to ground at the service panel ( circuit breaker box). The bare copper wire is the Grounding conductor, it goes back to the ground bar in the service panel.

    Recepticals have two sets of terminals so you can break the tab that connects the and have one always hot plug and one switched plug. I'm guessing the power comes into the box through one of the Romeo cables, the goes out the box to the next receptical using the duplex receptical as a terminal. Not what it was designed for.

    First, make sure the tabs aren't broken on the receptical and that one of the plugs isn't controlled by a switch or other device. Then turn off the breaker, remove all the wires from the receptical. Through away the receptical and get a new one. Use a wire nut to connect the 2 brown wires with a third 6" piece of brown wire ( any color not white, gray, or green). Use a wire nut to connect the 2 white wire to a third 6" piece of white wire. (Must use white). Do the same with the bare copper wire. Get a new receptical connect the 6" brown to the hot side smaller straight plug, the white goes to the larger straight plug and the bare copper goes to the, should be, green terminal. Do not connect the white to the bare.

    Hope this helps.

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    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Also, it looks like too much insulation was stripped from the wires.

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    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We had a fire at work a few years ago, the cause was using a duplex receptical as a terminal.

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    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Home depot, $4.79 after tax and free shipping.

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  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks John I’m roasting coffee and after I’m done I’ll study your reply closer.
    @IndustMech

  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Thanks John I’m roasting coffee and after I’m done I’ll study your reply closer.
    @IndustMech

    Any questions, you know where to find me...

    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives

    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Home depot, $4.79 after tax and free shipping.

    Those recepticals are up-side down.

    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives

    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.