3/30/2024 0 Comments Rewiring lath and plaster walls![]() Electricity in there isn't something I crave, when I use electricity in back of the house I just use the outlet under my tankless water heater and a long extension cord. It's plenty bright during the day and I generally have no need to go in there at night and if I did, I have flashlights galore. There's the lift up door on the end and two sky lights. I have personally trimmed both large plum trees with an electric pole saw all this time.Īctually, electricity in the garage isn't a big deal. It just happened, probably a branch from the plum tree between the house and garage falling on the wires and breaking them, that simple. I'm pretty confident there was no reason for disconnecting the garage. Being broke didn't worry me, I had a decent full time job at the time. In fact when I closed I had 1k left, which I immediately forked over for a new fridge (well, virtually new, IIRC it was an open box type affair from Airport Appliance), which I still have. He told me he'd done 9 other houses similar to mine. For $150k he would have redone the foundation, and I'm guessing now (because I haven't seen his document in a while, but I'm sure it's in my filing cabinet) rewire, repipe, paint, remodel kitchen and baths. What I didn't expect was that he'd propose to renovate the house, but that's exactly what he did. Thanks!Ĭlick to expand.Complete update is what? Tear down and rebuild? When I bought the house 21 years ago I had it inspected by GC. one prong is wider than the other, so orientation presumably matters! So, how do I determine which wire goes to which wire? Also, please explain if possible why and how it matters. ![]() ![]() Well, my question is this: The AC outlets in the garage accommodate modern non-grounded plugs, i.e. ![]() I don't remember how or why those wires were disconnected, I think the garage was hooked up ~20 years ago when I bought the house. I'd like to hook up the garage and figure it's simple as turning off the electricity and hooking up the two wires coming from the garage and the ones coming from under the roof edge outside my kitchen. Anyway, rewiring isn't something I figure to do right away. I'm contemplating repiping the house (copper, I guess, but I saw a Youtube video recently saying "pex" makes a lot of sense, won't corrode). The wiring in my 111 year old house is, well, old! I think it's called "standard knob and tube wiring." The AC plugs in the house are all (I think) 3 pronged, but AFAIK, there's no ground on any of them except for a few that I hand wired to some reasonable ground (e.g. If AC is connected to those wires, the plug boxes will work and I assume the overhead light in the middle will function (there's a switch on one of the AC boxes, that I am certain controls that light). I tested the coiled wires outside the garage today and there's continuity. There are two wires leading from the garage, heavy copper cored, and coiled, disconnected from the two wires that lead out from under the roof eve of my kitchen. they won't accommodate a 3 pronged plug). It's wired for two AC current outlets and an overhead light in the middle. My garage is distanced from the house by about 15 feet.
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