this is where the 2 b.r. meet. basically the splicing here was there i just redid it and added boxes that mount to the beam.
back in high school i took residential wiring and did pretty well at it. time has past and basically forgot all the terms and what not but the hands still knew what to do.
now for the problem; this old house has 2 fuse boxes which im fine with atm. in the bathroom i added a s.p. switch to operate a light and basically added the line to a j.b. in the basement. the upstairs bathroom is on the same line and everything works except the new work i did. i even have a new outlet connected to all this but nothing seems to work.
also i added another outlet in the kitchen and that doesn't work either. then i noticed the fuse for the bathrooms is a 15 amp and the fuse for the kitchen is a 20 amp. both outlets are 15 amp. yet why does everything else work.
i checked my positive and neutral lines and spliced accordingly. when i started not one outlet and switch has a ground wire except for what i did in the bathroom, and i used 12g. where its the same in the kitchen but a little bit smaller in the bathroom. am i missing something? wth...
no pic for the kit. but picture a wall, on one side is outlet a where i did some splicing and ran wires to the other side of the wall where outlet b doesn't work.
I'd get out my multimeter and begin testing. You are planning on removing all of the wiring you have installed and do it correctly once you get this figured out aren't you?
Look under "F" for framing contractor. The pics are full of sawed off support.
Taping a wirenut... If it was legal ( »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In ··· interest ), I would get a home owners policy for your house. No, me, patcat88 would get a policy that pays patcat88 if your house burns down.
I hope that is steel armored cable and not AL armored cable with set screw armored fittings.
I do have to give props that you are keeping the armor/steel wiring system in place. Personally I dont like NM. Seen buildings burn down with it from rodents. Example is attached. Cute isn't he?
Get a wire gauge tool, looks like this »i.ebayimg.com/t/WIRE-GAU ··· 0_35.JPG . Make sure your "20 amp" kitchen circuit is really 12 gauge. I dont think it based on age.
back in high school i took residential wiring and did pretty well at it. time has past and basically forgot all the terms and what not but the hands still knew what to do.
You apparently have forgot every thing about it and the hands do not know what to do.
Take the advice:
CALL AN ELECTRICIAN BEFORE YOU BURN YOUR "OLD HOUSE" DOWN.
i have no explanation for what just happened and i say this because i did some research and haven't found anything concrete. everything works now. i took the tape off and begin testing and for some reason everything works. no thanks to anyone here. did you know and wanted to me to figure it out? because like i said earlier, i found out some pros do it some don't. i offer my thanks anyways for not criticizing. thank you. i will still look further into this so my house doesn't burn down. the room and bathroom above kitchen and this bathroom are additions so i was already dealing with a can of worms.
i have no explanation for what just happened and i say this because i did some research and haven't found anything concrete. everything works now. i took the tape off and begin testing and for some reason everything works. no thanks to anyone here. did you know and wanted to me to figure it out? because like i said earlier, i found out some pros do it some don't. i offer my thanks anyways for not criticizing. thank you. i will still look further into this so my house doesn't burn down. the room and bathroom above kitchen and this bathroom are additions so i was already dealing with a can of worms.
In the 2nd pic, really? You have an outlet there. How is it going to work? I know, you wired the outlet in series with the switch, and the ceiling lamp. A floor lamp must be plugged into the outlet for the ceiling light to work. You can also turn off your ceiling lamp from a bedstand by just turning off the bedstand table lamp. How convenient!
no sprinklers, your house, how long to reach phone, how long to call 911, how long phone call with 911, how long until FD gets there, how long before FD gets water going, more than 3 minutes unless you live in line of sight of a fire house
even with sprinklers, you wont be living there for a long time
I also know the perfect way to delay midterms. Curling iron on lower bunk bed (what happened in the test burn videos here). It will take an hour for the top bunk to soak through with water
lesson of story, use metal furniture and asbestos sleeping blankets
No offense but you have no idea what you're doing.
Seriously, get an electrician.
There are so many things wrong in those pictures this is well beyond the help of an internet forum.
Doing electrical wiring in a way that is both safe and code-compliant involves a lot more than just making the electrons flow. Just because you got it working doesn't make it safe.
i have no explanation for what just happened and i say this because i did some research and haven't found anything concrete. everything works now. i took the tape off and begin testing and for some reason everything works. no thanks to anyone here. did you know and wanted to me to figure it out? because like i said earlier, i found out some pros do it some don't. i offer my thanks anyways for not criticizing. thank you. i will still look further into this so my house doesn't burn down. the room and bathroom above kitchen and this bathroom are additions so i was already dealing with a can of worms.
There was no way anyone was going to put a finger on that from here. Without knowing you we actually care if you live or die, and would really hate to have your house burn down because someone said to do this or that. No one here is ragging on you, the best advice to solve, not to have it magically work but fix the problem, is to get an electrician in. You have series wired a switch with a plug with individual wire, there are no cable clamps on the new boxes, there is a crimp connector within 3 inches of a wire nut that looks to be for a audio connection, you have pulled power from a MC circuit and have an open air junction. the JB you are using is for MC cable, not there is a JB for the loose wire you are using. You have a grounded receptacle with no ground...................
I think you get the picture. You really need someone to look at that that knows what they are doing.
Yeah, that's my favorite...two inches of conductor coming out of the BX into a full octagon box.
With that ancient box in^3 being -5, those black painted steel pre-vietnam (or is that pre-WW2 I am looking at?), sadly really do require you cut back to 2 or 3 inches if you want to ultra thick cotton rubber and wirenut to fit with a plate over it.
Come on guys. This screams fake. It's just somebody trying to get you all riled up.
But...the painters tape on the wirenuts looks so real!
That's blue electrical tape. Sadly there was far worse stuff in my old house when I bought it. I had a similar box in the attic only it had 3 wires going in not 4. That said the OP has no idea how to do electrical. He needs to hire one.
