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Three-way switches have 3 terminals. One is common, and the other two are travelers. Wired correctly, a hot wire connects to the common on one switch, two traveller wires connect the traveller terminals on the two switches, and the common on the other switch goes to the load. The exact way...

I finally get a chance go look a little further... Breaker in the main panel is 20a Feed to the overhead is 3 wires in conduit; no ground wire; exits from a weatherhead attached to house just below the hanger that On the detached garage end, the ground in the UF is not connected at the overhead...

Thanks for the feedback. As long as I have this open, I'd like to fix what I can, short of trenching across the driveway. 1) 12-3 - is there a ground as well as a neutral run overhead to the garage? At the garage end, the ground in the 12-3 is not connected to the overhead neutral. The...

No option to run underground -- it's about 60' of paved parking area. Might consider if/when we repave, but that is some time off. Edit: A disconnect in the house end would be directly below the panel. Is there any advantage to doing that? In the garage, it goes from the entrance straight...

I have an overhead wire supplying power to my detached garage. Didn't see a marking on the first foot or so (didn't look much further as I was looking from the edge of the roof) but the (aluminum) conductors are close to 1/4" diameter. On the house end, it connects to 12/3 coming out of...

When I was in my teens, I was helping my dad run a new circuit for something in the garage. He was just connecting the hot wire to the breaker when there was a bright flash of light. We both jumped back, puzzled, since the breaker was off. When we turned around, my little brother was...

Quite a few years ago, my wife and I were up late getting ready to leave on a trip the next morning. As it was summer, and I was in and out of the garage quite a bit, I left the overhead door up until we went to bed. A week or so later, we got home to the smell of a dead skunk in the garage...

Last summer, the buried primary from the street to the transformer near our house failed. The fuse about a quarter mile up the street blew, making a significant "boom". Although the CBYD crew mis-marked the location of the wire, the poco crew located the bad spot close enough that they dug...

I just finished (mostly) my RaceDeck install today. I used a table saw (with a not-very-fine blade), tile face up, with pretty good results for the straight cuts. Where the table saw wouldn't cut it (pun intended!), I used the jigsaw. I just kept the blade speed up and a slow pace, and...

Thanks. It sounds like the consensus is that TapCons will do the job; I'll have to think about doing french cleats vs. more permanent attachment. I'm hoping to never move them after they're hung, so the cleats may be overkill (but I may use them elsewhere).

I'm planning to build cabinets to hang on a below grade poured concrete wall. Cabinets are not designed yet, but will probably be 3/4" plywood and about 36" wide and 42 - 48" high; probably a run of 12-14' total. I'm not sure what the best approach is to hanging the cabinets... should I...

My RaceDeck arrives Monday. I enjoyed browsing the pictures on various threads here and on the RaceDeck site to help me choose colors and a design. I'll post photos when it's in (hopefully next weekend!).

Will the water stay on top until I sweep it off? My floor has minimal pitch, so I would think any water the goes under the tile will take a long time to evaporate. If it stays on top, sweeping the water out will also help to flush out the sand, etc., that comes with the water.

I live in CT, where we have a pretty decent snow season each winter (especially this year!). It's pretty common for each of our two vehicles to bring snow and ice amounting to a gallon or two into the garage. Would RaceDeck handle this reasonably well?