Recent content by mechaniac86

Ok. I'll look into that. Lol the lady in my life will certainly not be impressed with a gaping hole in the back of our house. Anyway, the window opening is 70.5H x 59.0W. What if I just wanted to put one single door? Could I just put the door in the middle of the opening and frame in the...

So my original plan was to make a door into the backyard from the new "office" area. However, I've come up with the idea of possibly turning the kitchen windows into french doors walking out onto a rear deck. This would give me more room in the office. How difficult would it be to turn these...

Would I need a moisture barrier before putting in any floors? I wanna say I've read something about porches and garages not having a moisture barrier. I'm in Louisiana, which is extremely humid. Also, do I attach my framing to this trim piece shown below? Or do I need to remove the trim piece...

Not exactly garage related, but my question is whether or not I can close in my back porch to make either a home office or a nursery. Is it possible? Feasible? Do I need actual footing?

So I'd be ok with just cutting the wires, stuffing them into wall, and spackling over? I'll probably use trim plate where control panel was mounted, but want to patch are where motion sensor was mounted.

Thanks for all the great feedback everyone! One more question. What's the appropriate way to hide these wires? They were from a previously installed alarm system.

I'm not sure yet, but who knows. They were cheap at Costco. I also have one of those new Ryobi module garage door openers that I haven't installed yet. Maybe the USBs will come in handy after the install. My house was built in 2009. Originally, my ceiling garage door opener was NOT a GFI, nor...

Ok, so I think my project is finally complete. Below is a diagram of exactly how the devices are wired. According to my little circuit tester, everything is wired correctly. All outlets are working. Just to be sure not to bypass the GFI, I fed the three other devices (2 garage wall outlets...

Out of curiosity, I followed the cable to their destination to see if the GFI was really the first device on the circuit from the breaker. It was not. The line from breaker goes straight to garage ceiling outlet. The wall outlet in the garage is fed from the ceiling outlet, then goes on to feed...

The receptacles I bought are the ones with the two terminals on each screw. The picture of the ceiling outlet that I posted earlier was the old outlet. These are the outlets I will be using for my quad outlet ceiling receptacle... However, my plan is going to be to reduce the amount of wires...

Ok. I returned two of the GFCIs and I have decided to replace my GFCI outlet with a newer (white) one. My main concern is not mixing up the line and load wires. Here's what I'm working with. The top pic is the current GFCI in the garage wall. The second picture is the ceiling outlet for the...

got it. Thanks!

Ok, two more concerns: (1) The instructions that come with the GFCI outlets say that the a GFCI located in "position A" (see below) protects all the receptacles on the load side of the GFCI. Does this mean I can return the many GFCI's that I bought and use the cheaper non-GFCI outlets, so...

I use terminal strips in automotive applications all the time. I would love to do strips here as they keep things neat and organized, but I've never heard of it in a residential electrical application (though I have limited experience). Are wire strips code compliant? Got it. I just need a...

Thanks for the picture! So I'll have 5 bare ground wires twisted together in the same wire nut inside my 2-gang box?