Search results

Im adding a bath vanity in an existing corner, I plan to build a 4 ft high wall on the other side out 36 " from wall , should I leave enough clearence to clear the vanity top (31") and fill in the 1/2 " on each side of vanity with wood strip or should I leave only room for vanity 30" and saw off...

people run the multiwire brance circuit to kitchen counter GFCI all the time , with half the recepts on each hot leg . Only 2 GFCI s are used with the others fed from the load sides. There is not enough induction to trip the GFCI .

You can share the neutral that way , its called a multiwire branch circuit 2008 NEC 210.4 . You have to be be sure you use a 220/240 double breaker, you can not use a piggy back breaker in which 2 breakers are made together to go on a single lug. If you use that , it will over load the neutral...

He wont care then . he wants it to stay on after the christmas lights are down , he will just leave the switch on , he will only turn off while the lights are up so not run continuous.

Am I missing something , If you install a jumper between the hot in and hot out on a timer it is the same as if the timer is not even there , the fact that a switch is in the jumper , returns it to as if the jumper is not there when the switch is off . Unless it is an electronic timer the...

I forgot to say they used a GFCI receptacle in the pump house and protected the light with the GFCI feed out terminals . As far the power co neutral it is grounded at the meter or disconnect to the ground rod . Same as the panel at pump house .

I never said I would do it but connected that way the bare ground becomes the grounded conductor back to the house panel . As far as it not being insulated their argument was the power co wraps their hots around the bare messenger wire which is grounded current carrying conductor .

You can use one of the hots on the cable you have for one GFCI and only connect to one hot neutral and ground in the inlet . I just didnt figure you would want to waste the other hot on the 220 . why dont you run another recep from the inlet box somewhere else and connect it to the other hot ...

If you have the power coming in to a lighting outlet , you can no longer run a 14/2 or 12/2 switch leg down to the switch , you must run 12/3 or 14/3 and leave an unused neutral in the switch box . I know what you mean on the pump houses 10/2 w/g was all all people used to use . I ve seen...

Oh I forgot , if the wirng is 20 amp , #12 wire and it probaby is , you would have to use a 120 volt 20 amp heavy duty switch , not a common 15 amp . You can dertermine the circuit by seeing if the breaker is 15 or 20 amp

A lot of timers have an on position that overides the timer . You could look into changing it out . Or if you can get another cable the same size as the others (#14 or #12 ) into the timer . If you are lucky the screws on the timer are made to put a wire on both sides and you can add one of the...

Wont scream on that one but he must use a 240 volt 20 amp double breaker in the panel to feed the shared neutral multiwire branch circuit . Even though he will be connecting 2 - 120 v circuits . Set a j box in the closet to tie in the 2 #12 cables to hot tub cable , But you must leave the j...

Here is one for you to chew on , in 2011 code every switch box in a house must contain a neutral wire , no matter if it is needed or not . Reason , so if a DIY needs a neutral for some thing later, he wont tie into the bare ground and use it for a neutral .

Only the lucky ones that could afford keroseen in Hoover days

Doesnt matter if lights and frig are there , all receptacle outlets in unfinished basement , garage , or crawl space must be GFCI . Does not matter if it is wet or damp , it can be dry as a bone . Some of the parents didnt survive , because of electrocution . If the gfci has saved poeple , it...

I hope you know what a nightmare that is and also hope it is not a large area you are doing , a battery tool wont run long enough without charge for a job this hard . all you can do is use a sawsall with short wood blade to get close as you can to wall but it is best to just break the...

A 240 is allowed to be ran this way and is called a multiwire branch circuit , you wind up with two circuit that share a neutral , the neutral only carries the unbalanced load , if both loads are exactly the same , there will be no current in the neutral . like one of the posts said if the 240...

I like the heavy duty prongs on that plug , most of the fires here are caused by a receptacle that is no longer tight on the prongs of the plug , they get by until some leaves a portable floor heater on , pulling 16 amp , the arc and poor connecting overheats and catches the conductors on fire .

I had a regular customer that a lot of mobile homes in what I called a religious compound of some kind . On one of the mobile homes they wanted an electric water heater installed instead of the gas . They warned me people that go under it have complained of getting shocked by the frame . I told...

If you had both red and black on one lug at the heater and red and black on the two breaker lugs , the 240 breaker would not turn on it would trip when you tried , one question is this a GE panel ? if so post reply