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IncredibleIgloo posted:I have only ever done shipboard and industrial electrical work, not super familiar with residential, but it looks like that panel has a lot more problems than just being housed in a husky case. At first I thought that it was kind of an innovative weatherproofing solution until I saw it open and noticed that the entire back was torn off.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Did he run away from the job because he didn't have time to do all that work? Hates money? Homeowner wouldn't pay the amount required? It's probably going to require ripping everything past the city meter out and redoing it all. It's not going to be cheap that's for sure. I'll have to ask him what the end outcome was.
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mattfl posted:It's probably going to require ripping everything past the city meter out and redoing it all. It's not going to be cheap that's for sure. I'll have to ask him what the end outcome was. The panel enclosure would need complete replacement and I would imagine that would be a bit of a job. I also don't understand why the incoming feeds go to a breaker in the middle of the panel as opposed to the lugs up top. The breakers just sitting at the bottom seem weird to me as well, and it looks like one is attached to a cord, perhaps for a generator? I never do residential work and am very curious about that breaker in the middle of the panel.
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Phanatic posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/tdx6b5/steam_gurgling_and_a_smokey_smell_coming_from_the/ You may have found one of the many lost Home Guard stashes of 'No.76 Special incendiary grenades' that were left over from WW2 and periodically get found. Nightmare fuel self-igniting phospherous 'grenades' in glass bottles. Like these ones that were rediscovered, https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/bombs-grenades-ice-rink-discovered-14225907
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I also don't understand why the incoming feeds go to a breaker in the middle of the panel as opposed to the lugs up top. That's how you turn a main lug panel into a main breaker panel. Why one wouldn't just replace the entire panel if this was needed is only one of the many questions I have here. But clearly there are too many throws in that one for a main lug panel to be allowed by code pretty much anywhere, so you can "solve" it like that.
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How it started: “don’t worry about those cracks I’ll just put some plaster on it” How it is going: 
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Just asked my brother for a follow up on the Husky electrical box. It's a bid job so he hasn't done anything on it yet, he put in a 10k bid to basically completely rebuild the service.
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mattfl posted:Just asked my brother for a follow up on the Husky electrical box. It's a bid job so he hasn't done anything on it yet, he put in a 10k bid to basically completely rebuild the service. Oh nice, thanks for the further info everyone!
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mattfl posted:Just asked my brother for a follow up on the Husky electrical box. It's a bid job so he hasn't done anything on it yet, he put in a 10k bid to basically completely rebuild the service. Burning the whole house to the ground for the insurance money seems more profitable.
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Baconroll posted:You may have found one of the many lost Home Guard stashes of 'No.76 Special incendiary grenades' that were left over from WW2 and periodically get found. Nightmare fuel self-igniting phospherous 'grenades' in glass bottles. Like these ones that were rediscovered, If you find any more, send them to Ukraine.
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By popular demand posted:Burning the whole house to the ground for the insurance money seems more profitable. Not with how stupid home values are now. I got a $30K quote to replace about half of my drain plumbing (stupid main sewer line under the foundation is cast iron, and therefore cracked,) which I basically had to laugh at. Because it basically isn't happening. I understand it's a lot of digging, but that only accounted for half the cost. I'm incredulous that the PVC and 24 hours or so of plumber labor is worth $15K. For that matter, I'm incredulous that they're going to pay the two laborers that will be digging $400/hr as in the quote. What really sucks is that I've used these plumbers before and they were reasonable and did good work. This was a new guy on the team, though, and felt like a "gently caress off" price.
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Darchangel posted:Not with how stupid home values are now. Either the laborers are subs (we pay our "house subs" $250 or so per window, for example- in reality 1099s that used to work for us and quit to work exclusively for us and handle their own taxes because subs make "more money") or the line price is wage + burden + markup. If I can make $400 an hour digging loving holes I'm getting a new job tomorrow. D34THROW fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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PurpleXVI posted:I remember once while we were doing some renovations at this kinda mansiony-looking place, we found some ancient newspapers, narrating the uncertainty and upheaval of mandatory public schooling's introduction in Denmark. Stuff like that is kind of interesting. I forget which series but one of the various Tudor/Victorian/etc. farm shows talks about how the lacemaking industry in Britain was decimated by mandatory education. Huge compromises about how girls could go to school when the light wasn't good but they would need to be home during daylight to continue bobbin lacemaking lessons and well, making lace. Child labour was a big part of the tenant farmer's extra income.
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This happens a lot in cellular sites. I worked for a time installing equipment in the little sheds under the towers, and you'd find zorched snakes and frogs and reptiles all the time. Most of the cellular equipment runs at like 24v 100a or so, so the power distribution systems are nice and toasty. I was down in Orlando so there was tons of critters to crawl into a site and seek out a nice dark warm space. Great home until critter steps across both bus bars. Sometimes you could open the cover and find a literal layer of frog skeletons at the bottom of the cabinet.
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Enos Shenk posted:This happens a lot in cellular sites. I worked for a time installing equipment in the little sheds under the towers, and you'd find zorched snakes and frogs and reptiles all the time. Most of the cellular equipment runs at like 24v 100a or so, so the power distribution systems are nice and toasty. I was down in Orlando so there was tons of critters to crawl into a site and seek out a nice dark warm space. Great home until critter steps across both bus bars. On the other hand: Squirrels are dumb as poo poo https://i.imgur.com/I7OwZ8X.mp4
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Electrocution hurts, animals getting fried makes me sad.
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BonerGhost posted:Electrocution hurts, animals getting fried makes me sad. The good news is that animals getting electrocuted inside substations can be bad for the equipment, so most electric utilities are putting in animal protection inside their distribution sites. The distribution stuff is close enough that small animals can cross the phases, but high voltage transmission is usually spaced far enough apart. So it’s not directly out of care for the animals, just for the effects on the bottom line, but it’s still a win.
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Platystemon posted:“Suicide cords are played out.” I go to use it yesterday, plug it in, go to plug in my hedge trimmer to the other end, and wait a minute, why is this end male? ... I definitely plugged the male end in to the outlet already.... Yeah, somehow I autopiloted the purchase of a new plug and the repair of the cord without ever thinking about or checking which end had been damaged, and I made a suicide cord that was now hot and being held in my hand. And I had obviously picked it up quite carelessly since I had no reason to suspect it was gonna murder me, so hey, pretty happy I didn't touch the hurty parts.
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Slugworth posted:So, embarrassing story time. The other day while using my hedge trimmer, I cut my extension cord. Annoying, but whatever, I stop at Lowes after work, grab a new plug, throw it on the extension cord, done. Excellent lesson. I could see myself doing something similar when I don't stop to think about what I'm doing.
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tomapot posted:How it started: “don’t worry about those cracks I’ll just put some plaster on it” Looks like part of a restoration/development plan: https://www.thempc.org/eagenda/x/mp...BE33AD7DA98.pdf https://savannahagenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/30-32-MLK-rendering.pdf
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Phanatic posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/tdx6b5/steam_gurgling_and_a_smokey_smell_coming_from_the/ D34THROW posted:Isn't there a loving phone number to call for this exact thing? Saint Freak posted:That number only works before you dig. If you call after you start digging it's just a room full of people on speakerphone that laugh at you. He posted this final explanation, and seems like he didn't actually do anything wrong. quote:Right, update: OP is still alive. I called the fire brigade after a few strongly worded replies and PMs on here, thanks by the way! They had a dig and measured the water and ground around the area to be 45 degrees C (113F) and suspected that I’d hit a live cable. Well done to those that said electricity! I’m bewildered really, as we’ve had the house two years so I’d seen all the documents recently enough showing that there should be no wires there and we’d done a full rewire so obviously all old wiring was cut. Turns out that it’s a 3 phase cable that runs directly off the mains, through our land and stops close to the brook at the end of the garden. So thank you to everyone that spelled out danger and insisted that I call the fire brigade! quote:It serves no purpose. The call out team’s best guess is that there used to be a substation somewhere behind the house or plans were made for one that never came to be. I can’t imagine either as it’s a farmer’s fields. They dug out, snipped it a couple feet away from where I’d hit it, sealed it off and put a housing around it. So essentially I still have a live wire running approximately 35-40m through my land. As it runs under the driveway (that needs dug up and widened at some point), alongside the house (where our expansion potential is that we may do at some point), and under the garage (which is asbestos and definitely needs replaced) I will be pushing the power company to come and remove or deaden the wire that’s left there. It just doesn’t make sense for it to be there and certainly not 350mm below the soil in my back garden!
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Slugworth posted:So, embarrassing story time. The other day while using my hedge trimmer, I cut my extension cord. Annoying, but whatever, I stop at Lowes after work, grab a new plug, throw it on the extension cord, done. I really should fix it properly but just haven't gotten around to it and my excuse is no one else would ever grab the cord to use it so it's mostly fine right? 
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I would be requesting the 3 phase be extended to my asbestos garage and just put gravel on the driveway when it gets too bad personally.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Edited to reflect my own cord repair story from a few years back. I didn't plug it in BUT I do still have the cord hanging in my garage. One day you will die and the unmarked suicide cord will be a fun inheritance for your family.
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My wife is at Home Depot with the kid and texted me this. Someone is definitely going to buy and attempt this. Bonus: our kid 
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Please don't flush the doggo.
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Saint Freak posted:My wife is at Home Depot with the kid and texted me this. Someone is definitely going to buy and attempt this. She must not have seen the one that can flush a whole set of billiard balls.
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By popular demand posted:Please don't flush the doggo. Potty train your kid and chase it with golf balls
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therobit posted:I would be requesting the 3 phase be extended to my asbestos garage and just put gravel on the driveway when it gets too bad personally. No poo poo. Free three-phase!
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Three-phase was a self-ban not a mod ban, I don't think they can free him unless he wants to come back
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Three-phase was a self-ban not a mod ban, I don't think they can free him unless he wants to come back 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Three-phase was a self-ban not a mod ban, I don't think they can free him unless he wants to come back He always seemed like a decent poster, is this where I find out he was a sex pest or into children or whatever other usual horrific thing is revealed about SA posters?
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SyNack Sassimov posted:He always seemed like a decent poster, is this where I find out he was a sex pest or into children or whatever other usual horrific thing is revealed about SA posters? It was just to take a break from the forums for their mental health I think. Though I am hoping I am not wrong.
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Saint Freak posted:My wife is at Home Depot with the kid and texted me this. Someone is definitely going to buy and attempt this. I have two of those; while I have not attempted the golf ball challenge, they have taken care of the remnants of egregious dining mistakes from the prior evening with aplomb.
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They have youtube videos so you don't have to attempt it personally
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Anne Whateley posted:They have youtube videos so you don't have to attempt it personally Flush the balls, coward!
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Jows posted:Flush the balls, coward! My toilet attracts 
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Jows posted:Flush the balls, coward! I don't want them ripped off though  Anne Whateley posted:They have youtube videos so you don't have to attempt it personally Crappy Construction: They have youtube videos so you don't have to attempt it personally
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wesleywillis posted:My toilet attracts my toilet brings all the females to the recessed bath eh, the joke doesn't feel well supported
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