Recent content by pconley

Great garage!!

Not much of a garage dog. She's more of a-- "Move over I'm getting in your bed, dog!!" :lol:

Sweet car!!

Pulled the ashtray loose from the dashboard so I could use a dental pick to retrieve a dash plaque from under the console cover that I dropped down there yesterday at a cruise-in. :thumbup:

So, we have power outages here a few times a year and I always worry about my finished basement flooding. I have a portable generator setup for mine. I have two backup pedestal sump pumps. One of them is rather old that I rebuilt. The other two are a few years old. But sometime when it rains...

FINALLY!! The money went into my bank account Wednesday, so the deal is done!! I ended up being very happy that it was all over. Thanks to all of you who came up with great advice. I really appreciated it.

Well, I got the panel put in and the condo is sold as of Tuesday. (Two days from now). The electrician came and put in a new panel. There is still aluminum wiring to the range and the air conditioner. I thought that was kind of strange. The rest of the condo has copper wiring so, only those two...

That isn't true. There are still insurance companies that don't even ask for a four point inspection, so they have no idea what kind of panel people have. Wells Fargo, who I have my loan with, found an insurance company for me who has been insuring my condo. But the companies are few and far...

They can not force me to change the panel. The panel passed a four-point state safety inspection. It has more than likely been in there for 50 years. The inspection company passes them all the time and there are some insurance companies who will insure buildings that have them. I have no way of...

As it turns out, only the panel box and some of the kitchen appliances have aluminum wiring. The rest of the residence is copper. I got a quote for $2012.00 to do the job, so I am going to go ahead and have it done. You gentlemen are truly good. Thanks for all of your replies. I appreciated...

Thank you, gentlemen. There is an electrician coming tomorrow to give a quote. I believe that the wiring around the condo is copper. I have had the covers off of almost all of the outlets and it looks like they all have copper wiring. But there is definitely aluminum inside the panel. The box...

Thanks. I should have thought of that.

I apologize for not being more thorough. This is in a condominium I own. It has a Federal Pacific electric circuit in it now. I recently found out that this electrical box with aluminum wiring causes up to 3,000 fires a year in the United States and Canada. So I am considering changing it out...

How much would it cost to have an electrician replace a breaker box?

I put mine in the flats about ten years ago. They haven't caused any problems yet.