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    my 100-Amp panel is full, new panel or add subpanel?

    Thanks all. I found the chart of allowable ampacities of conductors. It's no longer a part of the 2014 NEC as the rule became a calculation, but it is a good reference http://www.encorewire.com/wp-content/uploads/wire_size_table.htm60A In my case I'm going to put in a 125A panel as a sub and...
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    my 100-Amp panel is full, new panel or add subpanel?

    Gas appliances = yes: water heater, furnace, the new oven is a dual fuel range (gas burners, electric oven)
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    my 100-Amp panel is full, new panel or add subpanel?

    Thanks for the replies. Just looking at the wires from the meter box to the house and if there was no main breaker panel installed at all - how does somebody figure out what service they have? In my case I have two #3 AWG copper (stranded) in conduit (above ground) in Oregon's mild climate...
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    my 100-Amp panel is full, new panel or add subpanel?

    Thanks Stuff. So since I have two #3 copper wires, I would have 200-Amp service but the 100-amp main breaker and panel keep me at 100 until it's replaced? While I only need just over 100 amps, is there any reason (besides material cost) to not put in a 200A panel? Since 200 are so common, it...
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    my 100-Amp panel is full, new panel or add subpanel?

    The main panel for my 1600 sq ft. house is a 100-Amp Challenger SB10 12-space 20 circuit. The breakers are a mix of Challenger, Cutler-Hammer and Eaton BR type. The bedroom receptacles are on AFCI breakers. There is an inspection sticker on the box dated 2005, which was the time of a remodel and...
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    Transition fitting from CPVC to PEX

    Hi all and thanks....so would that thing proposed by Redwood and seconded by Terry be a standard/widely available item (ie Big Orange Box) or do I need to make the separate trip to my plumbing house? Would it just be called a CPVC to brass male thread adapter? CPVC takes a specific adhesive...
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    Transition fitting from CPVC to PEX

    Hi I'm remodeling a bath and in the wall I am suprised to see CPVC running up to the shower valve. The rest of the house is copper so I'm guessing this was an earlier remodel. The CPVC is in pretty a poorly braced condition and since I have to replace and relocate the valve I want to get...
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    3 function valve (spout, handheld, wall mount)

    Hi I'm a GC and my plumber doesn't keep up with new products very well so maybe some of you guys/gals have some ideas. For a bathtub with shower, my customer wants a tub spout and for most of her use a standard wall mount showerhead. But she also wants a handheld shower for cleaning the...
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    Sewer cleanout outside house is 8 inches too tall

    thanks! Will do and report back any weirdness... sr
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    Sewer cleanout outside house is 8 inches too tall

    HJ and all - trying to get a response Hi I don't mean to press but it has been a week and I didn't hear back from HJ or another plumbing expert. Can someone read my original post and my follow-up and help me sort things out? I'm doing this tomorrow! thanks
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    Sewer cleanout outside house is 8 inches too tall

    PS It's cast iron... Hi HJ So you think the valve box isn't a good idea? I'm afraid of people not knowing where this cleanout is in the future... you say "...glue on a female adapter"> I guess I should have been more clear: it is a 1920s house and the sewer cleanout is cast iron. That's...
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    Sewer cleanout outside house is 8 inches too tall

    Hi all The cast iron sewer cleanout for my house is in a bad spot to be sticking up so high. It is about 10 feet outside my foundation wall and appears to be a 3" pipe sticking vertically out of the ground. But the pipe has a fitting that enlarges to a 4" at the end (just before where the...
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    reducing toilet drain

    Code question: reducing in the toilet drain I am replumbing my 1st floor bath and have lots of headroom (altitude) in my basement ceiling below. Because of my need to come off the top of the trap arm in the basement with a 2 inch vent, I think that I need the piping to drop down below the floor...
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    Advice for drilling for 3-inch waste

    Thanks! Yeah, these are 1916 "old school" 2x4s. So if I'm following what you are saying: I should cut out a 3 9/16ths section of the top plate (and hope that the siding and the sheetrock holds the exterior wall up!). This is definately going to be inspected...is a building inspector...
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    Advice for drilling for 3-inch waste

    Hello It didn't take me long to discover that I like self-feeding bits for drilling through studs and plates for my vent and drain lines. I have a medium duty 1/2" Dewalt right angle drill (DW120K, I couldn't justify buying a Hawg). What advice can you all offer me for drilling the hole...
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