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I have plans to order a materials package for a pole barn being built in 1-2 years. I have the space to store it inside a dry and insulated heated shop. Would the painted panels be at risk of developing stains if stacked flat on the floor? Again the shop is very clean and dry and the panels will...

Is it a part of yearly maintenance on these to have to purge air out of the system after it's been sitting and off all summer? I'm running a single zone radiant heat closed loop with a hot water heater and there is air the system because I can hear noise in the grundfos circulator pump when...

Yup, ya can't afford it. My lowes also isn't showing any price either.. I'm glad I build my barn when I did -- hopefully it will be back down to sub $10 when this is all over but I'm not counting on it.

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Thanks a lot for the advice here.. I may not have sleeved the cable as it passed through at the house, shame on me if I didn't. The weekend when the temps go up some I'm going to dig up at the house and look at the wire. I will update whatever I find. Best case is it is damaged there and I can...

General Electric I put in 2 more pull string light fixtures in the laundry room. I used the same circuit that the existing light was on.

I haven't touched the wiring in two years. It's been working fine. Yes, I've been doing it both ways. I think it's important to note that when I first started troubleshooting this yesterday, I had 40-60 volts present on the line - today there is nothing. When this first happened my GFCIs had...

No, I don't. I can find out tomorrow if it's something to look at. I'm getting proper voltage off the breaker, unless there is something going on with my neutral. All connections are tight.

You ask and I do. You might be on to something here. I swapped wires at the house breaker and the dead wire did not follow at the shop. WTH is going on here....

I agree its coincidental but no, I didn't move any wires or breakers in the main. All I did was run down the box flipping breakers to find the circuit I needed to shut off. That, and wired a few lights with a hot circuit. Here is my house main (I only installed the breaker, all other wiring...

My breaker is reading 240v across both lugs. At the shop, with the feeders disconnected from the breaker, I am now getting zero volts from one, and 120v on the other. It's looking more and more like my cable has been damaged.

Thanks for the help. Do you mean to take my pos/neg probes on the meter and touch both lugs and it should read 240v?

My breaker at the house is 90 amps with 2 120v wires going to the shop. Each one is reading correctly at 120v. My feeder is continuous and not spliced anywhere. It's about 150' run, and the electrical contractor here at work may have one of those tools, and hopefully be able to find something.

Same conditions here recently, except I don't think the frost is going down to my 18" yet. Someone today mentioned I should try completely disconnecting my hots from the breaker at the shop and then test my voltage. I don't see why it would make a difference if it's connected to the breaker or...

It is aluminum cable. I did check the connections at both main breakers and they were tight - but I gave them more torque anyway. I am also checking the voltage on the wire itself, not at the breaker screw and getting the same readings. I agree it's quite a coincidence for it to happen while I...

UPDATE: Looks like I have to dig up my cable. Using a borrowed multimeter, my 90 amp breaker inside my house main that feeds the shop reads 120v on both legs. At the shop, the 2 legs coming in are reading on one leg 120v, and the other is only 40v. Looks like the wire is dropping voltage...

I'm using one of those testers that just light up if 120v is present, so yes there is voltage but not enough for my light to indicate. My connections are tight and well done, I took my time when I wired the building and did a nice job. I think I need to replace some of the breakers - if I bring...

This weekend I had the task of doing some basement electric work in my house and installing a few lights. While making some connections more than once I did it carefully with the circuits hot. In my barn, I have a sub panel fed with a 90 amp breaker off my main. About half of my GFCIs were lit...

Lots of really good advice here so far. My vote would be to go as big as you can, but leave enough room in the budget for a finished, heated building with lots of detail on insulation. I finished my first "real" shop this past summer and running a heated floor. It's amazing. I've been used to...

I blew in HD's Green Fiber with their machine rental called "cacoon" or something. It was the biggest pile is rat turd machine ever and barely worked. Turned a 1 hr job into 5.