Questions tagged [rewire]
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Should I rewire my house?
I am a new homeowner and have started doing some electrical upgrades. The problem I've run into is that the house was built in 1960 and the electrical system as a whole is grounded via the conduit with no ground wire present. Most components I've…
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2nd floor rewiring question
I'm rewiring 3 bedrooms on the second floor of an old (1920s) house. All knob and tube has been disconnected. I've got lighting done, but now doing bedroom general outlet circuits. I'm putting each bedroom on its own 20amp circuit.
The house has…
Uncle Woody
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Rewiring a split switched outlet to control a new ceiling light
There are a wall switch and a receptacle in our bedroom. The wall switch controls upper half of the receptacle, which a floor lamp is connected to. I would like to:
install a ceiling light
make the wall switch control the ceiling light
make the…
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Why is my breaker tripping after I reconfigured switch wiring?
I plugged in an outlet tester to an outlet directly below two light switches and it read "open neutral", so we pulled out the two individual light switches above and found a blue box with four 3-wire cables coming in (black, white, ground). All…
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Wire nuts safe to cap off live circuit
Enclosed porch on side of house for washer/dryer. Only light is controlled in kitchen, not at new entry door, so installing 3-way switches. Am bringing power in on new grounded circuit.(house built in 60s so no ground) My question is will it be safe…
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To rewire, or not to rewire
I had some minor work done and the electrician pointed out some upgrades that might be a good idea. Essentially, the entire house could stand to be rewired--it was built in 1947. I'm thinking of only doing the basement. However, it is not really…
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