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I needed to relocate some lights and the outlet for the garage door opener because I'm using a new type that turns the torsion bar rather than moving the door in a chain-driven manner. This will allow more space for a longer car stored on top. I used the junction box for a new light location...

I've never been able to store the two Continentals with their tops up, and that's not very good for the tops, or the interiors. It looks pretty cool driving by my house during the winter as the tail end of the Porsche is clearly visible in the front window. I only had 9'6" to work with...

You'll need a neutral at the top box to make that work. The simple thing would be to run the power to the top box or the switch leg to the light to the lower box, or, you could run power to where the light is. If you're running to the closest source at the bottom of the stairs then here's the...

If you have three doorbell buttons you should have 4 pairs of wires at the doorbell, do you? One pair will be from the transformer. One of the wires goes to the common terminal on the doorbell. The other wire would go to one wire in each pair, in this case 4 wires bundled together. The...

I'm new to the site. I have 40 years of electrical experience and haven't found a 3-way switching system I couldn't trouble-shoot. Feel free to ask questions, but be prepared to take some pictures and draw some diagrams that will aid me in helping you.

It's likely that you guys are way off base. I've seen this 100 times. You have most likely mixed up the LINE and LOAD wires, which must be installed properly for a GFCI to work properly. You need to identify which pair of wires is the "hot" pair and install the black and white on the proper...