Checking for dupes, I saw this question, but the situation appears different as my box is metal, among other things.
I'm fairly new to electrical projects, so bear with me. I recently installed a new light fixture in a ceiling connection in a new building.
The fixture has black, white, and e...
@maple_shaft measuring 120V from line to possible ground, does not always mean you have a solid ground. Checking continuity between neutral and possible ground would be a better test, but testing continuity between the grounding electrode conductor and possible ground would be best.
Your answer isn't bad, but it makes a lot of assumptions and guesses. Which could be dangerous.
I guess connecting line to the box, and energizing the circuit is a good ground test though.
@maple_shaft Continuity just verifies there is an electrical path between two points. You could also measure resistance, since infinite resistance would tell you there is no continuity.
Im replacing an exhaust fan. I have 3 wires coming from the ceiling. I can only get the vanity light to work and when I wire the other wire to it, it trips the breaker. What am I doing wrong
fridays speeding ticket from 1 year ago cost me $100, yesterdays 3 tickets, 1 tail light bulb dead and the 2 suspension tickets - 1 got thrown out and the other 2 reduced to parking tickets, $100 first, $70 second ticket
putting the final total at 700.
i was there for 5 hours because last week was a holiday and all those court cases got pushed to yesterday. lawyers get to go first, so we stood in the hallway waiting to speak to the DA for hours.
i've been to a lot of courts (6 now that i've counted), and this one by far, was the least organized
anyways - what happens to PUT that it falls on thanksgiving? i made progress on the bedroom this weekend!
took (someones) advice - redid the corners - didnt sand first - put a good amount of mud into the corner, used the corner trowl to put it nice and strait and consistant - still drying as of yesterday - next i'll knock down the edges with a knife and use a 8 inch knife to fether that into the wall
a light sanding and i'll be ready for paint this weekend - broke down and bought electrical wire (still couldn't find my spool) - finished the lights - that all works
"I tried calling you at 9pm last night, but you didn't answer your phone, so I got login credentials to the server from someone else, logged on, didn't see anything, logged off, and the problem went away".... Now I need to bash my own head against the wall.
i need my dremel back from my father - also decided to start re-wiring the 3 outlets in the family room that i lost when i started disconnecting old power from bedrooms on the 2nd floor. the electrical boxes are the old metal ones that nail into the face and side of the 2x4 and i need to cut out the plaster and lath so i can remove the box and put a new one in its place so i can wire the box from the basement and not somewhere in the abyss that is the ceiling
ahh, no - i used that thing throughout the majority of my remodeling till it got clogged with drywall dust, my father took it home to clean it (got it to work) and i've never seen it since haha
the piping under my kitchen sink is almost tripple that - when we redid the main drain pipe, we didnt account for tiling under the cabinets - so nothing lined up - its a work of art. i'll take a picture tonight
I hired a company to finish the drywall job in my room. One of the things that sticks out like a sore thumb is the exposed edges of corner bead. I have never seen corner bead exposed like this. Isn't it supposed to be covered with a coat of mud or are you actually supposed to paint over it?
I plan on installing three LED security lights to my home. I would like to have them turn on and off with a photocell. I am going to have a switch and then install the lights in parallel. I am not sure how to add the photocell.
I have also read that some photocell act like dimmers and I know th...
A club at uni has this great big old table. (about 1220mm by 2420mm)
It was made by I don't know who over 20 years ago.
The legs and framework are great,
but the table top is chipboard which has become all flaky and bad.
Someone decided to sand it down - which of course only made it worse.
They w...
They were all new bulbs from two different packages. Yes, wiring has been triple checked, green to green, white to white, black and blue to black. Its at my parents house and can get this Thursday. How do I test the sockets? — riotburn8 mins ago
Stick your finger in the socket. If you don't think twice about doing it again, there is no voltage at the socket.
Based on the flexibility of the flat bar stock, I decided to use square 1/2" tube stock.
Using a 3/4" MDF subtop, I routed channels 5/8" wide and 9/16" deep. I then filled these channels with polyurethane glue, set in the steel bars, and finally I used a drywall knife to spread and flatten glue ...
@TheEvilGreebo Not that bad. Fractures around my eyeball, but nothing that requires surgery. Minor concussion, just bad enough to keep me overnight. In a lot of pain for now, already starting to settle down a bit.
man, I could not find a handy box electrical cover that was decora style, so I ended up getting a couple of square ones instead. More room to work with anyhow
Thanks. I'll be in and out .. .just wanted to let people know why I disapparated and haven't been making progress. Yeah, @lsiunsuex ... that was quite possible for me. I wasn't wearing a helmet.
Thanks. What happened to me was like the LEAST WORST possible ways to come out of this. I had immediate medical care and was taken straight to the hospital.
new DIY.SE feature! Public Wills; for when DIY members darwin themselves, give back to the community they helped build. Donate tools to be distro'd through the community!
i use the orange tool bins from home depot - i have like 5 of them broken into categories (paint, electrical, plumbing, etc...) and then a nice husky rigid bag with a shoulder strap for everyday stuff - cordless drill, screw drivers, network tools, etc...
@TheEvilGreebo Agreed... I'm in that state now with the projects I had running before the accident. That's one of the reasons I use the tote bins; I put what they contain on the label on their side and I can sic my girlfriend or a well-meaning but home-improvement-challenged friend on sorting things.
I am replacing a few interior doors and I need to know if the existing door is Right Handed or Left Handed so I have them drilled correctly. Sounds like the acronyms for this are RH and LH. This also would apply for new pre-hung doors as well I assume as they are all marked that way at the mega...
if i have an outdoor garden hose - and i open the water valve just a bit, just a bit of water trickles out. if i open it all the way, much more will come out and faster
After a minute or so of hot water running in my kitchen the pipes start to knock, and water doesn't come out in a stream. It is like there is air getting in.
What is happening, and how can I fix it?
knocking hot water pipes are caused by cockroaches in the pipes exploding due to the high temperature - cut a portion of the pipe out (4 to 6 inches depending on if you live in NYC or Chicago) and let the living ones escape and flush the dead ones out with more water
I have been using this wire stripper for a while, but I have always wondered what was the purpose of those holes in the center and above LOOP, and those teeth on the handles.
@lsiunsuex don't forget, the neighborhood sets the market value of a house. If you improve the house too much, you'll never get that money back when you sell.
the changes to the bathroom - yeah, for sure - its crappy - the changes to the bedroom - meh - it would be a complete gut as it always is (new windows, insulation, blah blah blah) - is that stuff of value to a buyer? yeah, probably - house had original single payne windows
stuff the house needs: 3 new windows (and then all the windows are new vinyl double pane), new roof on garage. stuff the house could use: remodeled bathroom. nicities: new privacy fence
@lsiunsuex Yes, but you will only be able to ask what the market (neighborhood) dictates. You won't get $200K for a house in an area where the average home sells for $50K.
and i guess when i bought it, i didnt care. i did what i wanted because i could and didnt care if i got it back cause i would enjoy it while i was there
It's not always about new vs. old. Take @TheEvilGreebo for example. He installed a cheaper floor in his bathroom, because tile would have been too much for his area.
right - in the kitchen we did a granite tile on the counter tops because a solid slab would have been to upscale for the neighborhood - cost me about half and looks almost as good
so we have "cut" corners like that
elsewhere, we didn't - the best furnace i could get (98% efficient as opposed to 90-95), etc...
i didnt do window inserts, i gutted the window and did new construction windows (re-framed and trimmed), etc...
we reinforced the corners of the cabinets with blocks of 2x4's and the countertop has a sub counter of 1/2 inch plywood covered with 1/4 inch concrete board
all per manufactuer instructions, not our concoction
anyways - as it stands right now - for the spring i think i'm gonna enclose the patio where the pizza oven is, turazzo the floor and tile the walls with glass french doors - which will probably be 5-7k if i do it with dad (just cause we're italian and know people that do turazzo) - i can go on and on with making changes to this house. but its not big enough for us - and i probably should cut any losses and build
You didn't want to put some more wall cabinets above that 2nd counter area and move those pans into a base cabinet? Those things are horribly space in-efficient
@TheEvilGreebo I always stick the ring to the toilet. I find it's easier to line up that way, and I'm not sliding the toilet around on the ring disfiguring it.
the wall where the pot rack is - the other side is the dining room - id like to cut a hole in the wall and make a pass through but she won't give up the pot rack
we wanted to make a really large hole in the wall and cut out a lot of that wall, but all the duct work for the upstairs rooms goes up that wall, so we ended up just doing about 3 stud bays worth instead of the lot more that we wanted
@Tester101 thats basically what it was - the nose tile on ours is cut into the field tile - makes it 1 solid piece. tile is more expensive cause of that (inside corner tile by the stove was something like $250 / tile) but it looks better this way
no - when we hung the uppers we accounted for a standard countertop height - with the plywood / densboard it came out just about the same
the only thing we didnt account for like i said earlier today was the plumbing - we didnt account for tiling under the cabinets and so the drain for the sink was off by a few inches which caused us to get creative with the pipes
so because we tiled under the cabinets, incase the cabinets were ever to be changed without changing the floor, and because the floor was so f'ed up from corner to corner, the drain pipe was off. no big deal - pain in the ass
@lsiunsuex You can get prefab granite and install it yourself. It is very easy.
@TheEvilGreebo Wax ring on toilet, then toilet on floor. This assures you get a good seal of the wax to the toilet base. Then it's easier to set the conical flange into your toilet gasket rather than setting the underside of the toilet onto the wax, centered.
Checking for dupes, I saw this question, but the situation appears different as my box is metal, among other things.
I'm fairly new to electrical projects, so bear with me. I recently installed a new light fixture in a ceiling connection in a new building.
The fixture has black, white, and e...
Im replacing an exhaust fan. I have 3 wires coming from the ceiling. I can only get the vanity light to work and when I wire the other wire to it, it trips the breaker. What am I doing wrong
I hired a company to finish the drywall job in my room. One of the things that sticks out like a sore thumb is the exposed edges of corner bead. I have never seen corner bead exposed like this. Isn't it supposed to be covered with a coat of mud or are you actually supposed to paint over it?
I plan on installing three LED security lights to my home. I would like to have them turn on and off with a photocell. I am going to have a switch and then install the lights in parallel. I am not sure how to add the photocell.
I have also read that some photocell act like dimmers and I know th...
After a minute or so of hot water running in my kitchen the pipes start to knock, and water doesn't come out in a stream. It is like there is air getting in.
What is happening, and how can I fix it?
I have been using this wire stripper for a while, but I have always wondered what was the purpose of those holes in the center and above LOOP, and those teeth on the handles.
