use a continuity testor
I recently used the continuity test function on my multitester to sort out some wiring. I had been replacing some three-way wall switches, and I had neglected to ...
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pigtailing NM-B
You know, I never thought of that. I could have done that, but then I would have still had plain NM in the box above the fixture. The fixture was one of these flo...
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answersupdated about 15 years ago by JonathanGennick
Frustrating install. Was it worth it?
Last night I installed a flourescent lamp in my dining room. The fixture bore a warning tag calling for nm-b. My older house was wired with just nm. Wanting to do...
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updated about 15 years ago by JonathanGennick
buy wallpaper stripper
You can buy gells that you paint on the wallpaper to soften the glue, and then you can remove it. That's what my wife and I did in the bathroom we remodelled. I b...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
I can empathize....
My wife and I had a similar dilima with a bathroom we were repainting. We tried two colors, actually painting them onto the walls, only to realize each time that ...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
Removing bathroom fan helps
I want to follow up a bit on my own post. For years there's been a bathroom fan venting into the area of the attic underlying the ice-dams that form on my roof. (...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
probably can change one outlet easier than the other
I am not an electrician. However, the first thing I'd do would be to spend some time figuring out how that circuit works. To that end, if you don't have one alrea...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
follow-up question on planes
Ok. I can go buy a plane tomorrow. I'll give it a go. Thanks for weighing in. I'm still annoyed at myself for letting my neighbor go at the jamb with a sander....
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
Fixing jamb extensions
I have a problem. A neighbor helped me trim a window. The jamb extensions extended slightly too far into the room. To get the trim to lie flat against the wall, h...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
removing soffit insulation
Fortunately, I can crawl in easy enough. My roof has a steep pitch. I still have to crawl to get to the very the edges, but it's not so bad. It's always bothe...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
Insulation in soffit area?
I have a serious ice-dam problem on one side of my house. In looking around the attic, I see that the area above the soffits was completely filled in with some ex...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
you can do a whole-house filter
I had the DSL split from the phone signal at the point where the phone lines come in to my house. The phone company put in a rather nice, modular, splitter unit. ...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
ice-dams and soffit insulation
You mentioned soffit-ventilation with respect to ice-dams. Currently, there is blown-in insulation filling the soffit area. Could that be the root of my problem? ...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
Is bathroom fan necessary?
How necessary, really, is a bathroom exhaust fan? I've just ripped my combination fan/light out, and I'm trying to decide what to do next. I removed the exist...
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answersupdated almost 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
Do more than fill in the grooves
I can share one approach that *won't* work. Years ago, my wife and I tried to paint over a paneled wall. We filled in all the vertical grooves with spackle, and t...
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answersupdated over 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
I've threaded screws
My neutral bar has threaded screws. You stick the wire straight into a slot, tighten the screw down, and the screw compresses the wire into the slot. Jonathan G...
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answersupdated over 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
Northern Michigan, not WV
Tom, Thanks for taking the time to look at my photos and answer my question. BTW, I'm in northern Michigan. That conduit on the right-hand side is 3/4-inch EMT. I...
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answersupdated over 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
Neutral wire of GFCI breaker is stranded
Recently, I popped in a GFCI breaker to protect a kitchen-counter outlet that until now has not been GFCI protected. That outlet is the only outlet on the breaker...
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answersupdated over 16 years ago by bcelect
Run conduit from service panel to ceiling joist area?
My house has a surface-mounted service panel. When I run a new circuit, must I run conduit into the joist area before I can begin running NM-B cable? Somewhere I ...
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answersupdated over 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
I'll answer my own question
Well, I managed to grab a look at the NEC over lunch, and it's pretty clear that the answer to my question is "no". That's too bad. I hate to waste two panel slot...
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answersupdated over 16 years ago by JonathanGennick
