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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 ...
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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answersYou 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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answersLast 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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answersYou 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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answersMy 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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answersI 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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answersI 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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answersOk. 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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answersI 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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answersFortunately, 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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answersI 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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answersI 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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answersYou 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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answersHow 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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answersI 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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answersMy 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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answersTom, 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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answersRecently, 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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answersMy 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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answersWell, 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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