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 ha...
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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 o...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 for...
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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...
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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...
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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 agai...
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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...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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You mentioned soffit-ventilation with respect to ice-dams. Currently, there is blown-in insulation filling the soffit area. Could that be the root ...
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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 re...
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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...
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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 slo...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 cabl...
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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...
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