Recent content by babyseal

It's a joke on what's apparently a common theme. I've all got a bazillion 10mm...except when I need one. I certainly wasn't aware it was a "thing", I thought it was just me. It's probably the most common metric size, it's on everything, my tools end up spread all over various garages and...

Well, duh. No wonder you guys are slapping your foreheads. That really, really isn't safe. I'll get 2 on order. End of the day, this is my fault for being lazy, writing breaker boxes off as voodoo, and not educating myself so I'd know when I'm getting screwed. It's pretty obvious once you guys...

I'll have it fixed myself, and I'm certainly not threatening legal action. We've did business for years on a handshake (specifically, he just did $90k worth of work on MY handshake), he's a reliable friend, which are pretty thin on the ground, and that's worth more than money. I trusted him, he...

Does it matter how many you have? Whenever you need a 10mm, you can never, ever find one without a lot of cussing and searching. You could have a toolbox dedicated to nothing but 10mm in all it's many and various forms...and it'll be empty when you open it. If I actually needed a 10mm, walked...

No idea. If you said, however, that he was an old fashioned, cranky, and opinionated old fart, those would be your words, not mine. Personally, I've not much luck with LEDs. Don't like the light either, hurts my eyes.

My HVAC bud will be down next week once I can guarantee these guys are done and gone. No desire to get interjected into the middle. Wasn't committing till he saw it in person, and I didn't have the deficiency list on me, but he hit all the main points. Also said there should be two ground rods...

Nope, HE paid a licensed electrician that should have known better. We're both highly unhappy with him. It's a conversation we'll have in the future when everything is done and over, and I show him the punch list, illustrated with copious pics. So he'll know. If I complained now, he'd bring in...

I'm paying the contractor flat rate for the job, electrician is a sub to him. We're buds, he's did work for me for years, we're doing this on a budget, and he's a guy I can call in an emergency and have him standing there in the time it takes him to climb in his truck. He's the type, if he gets...

My usual HVAC guy is an electrician and extremely **** retentive. Was buds with my dad, and they were birds of a feather. He's coming down once they're gone and look it all over. I don't think he was impressed with the pics either. At a guess, he'll rip everything out and start fresh rather than...

Answer given, is that here it's not required for residential, only for commercial. Boss was crawling around the attic space when I went out this AM, re-checking everything. Also had the electrician's helper pulling switches and receptacles to make sure they're all wrapped. He fired the...

The fix for the obvious is shutting down, pulling the feed wires back out, running conduit from where it's coming in through the wall, and into the top of the breaker box? Because I don't have a single solitary issue with throwing a screaming fit and making him redo it correctly. Won't bother...

I'm assuming in conduit so you don't drive nails and such into it and eat 200v... If I'm following the wiring, the main feed goes into the outside meter box via the roof feed conduit (top left conduit), then splits into feeding the main garage (right hand outside top conduit), then goes out of...

"The feeder is MHF and is supposed to be in conduit unless it's underground." What does MHF mean, and in conduit from the top of the box to where it goes out the wall, and then down into the meter panel? Does the main feed come from the outside meter into the back of breaker box?

Too dark to get good pics. There's 2 conduits into the top of the meter box. Left is the main feed. Right is the one you see out of the box and through the wall. Then there's a bottom conduit into the ground, feeding the back garage.

Ok, lousy pics but they're off a little pocket camera. That's OK, I didn't need to sleep tonite anyway...