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Wife and I are buying a house (yay) and it has a lot of old outlets. The breaker box is good but all the outlets should be upgraded so I posted this in the wiring thread but: Hey thread, if I wanted to install a GFCI outlet that's something I can do myself right? You just: Turn off the power Check that you won't electrocute yourself Uncrew the old outlet Disconnect the wires Connect to new outlet Screw in new outlet to wall? Turn on the power (Optional)
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I think I (or a parent) has one of those little plugs. Good tip on the outlet drawing. But am I right about the outlet itself? I can do it myself and it is that easy?
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Nov 3, 2021 16:04
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FISHMANPET posted:If you've been blessed with GFCI breakers for (nearly) every circuit like I have, you can use your tester and hit the GFCI test button to trip the circuit and see which breaker it is. Well the issue here is the house pmuch doesn't have any so I'm thinking of taking a day to just swap them all out.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:18
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BonerGhost posted:If you're planning to do all of them, it's going to be much easier and cheaper to buy CAFI/GFCI breakers instead. Unless your panel is trash, I guess. According to inspector guy the panel is A-OK (needs some new putty, one circuit is double tapped, but there's space to do it right)
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Nov 3, 2021 23:09
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Anne Whateley posted:Only if you have modern wiring. If you have older wiring with no neutral, time to call a pro. House was built in 93 so I'm sure it does
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Nov 6, 2021 03:43
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My dad just casually dropped how he bought a home with 12% rate in the 80's.
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Nov 15, 2021 16:50
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That Works posted:I want to run network cable through a few parts of my house just from the basement to the 1st floor. My home was built in 2004, nothing unusual about design or manufacture, typical up to code layout. 2 stories sitting on top of a concrete tub basement. Follow the phone wries, and if you're a futureist, replace them.
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Nov 29, 2021 14:00
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Ok what's the deal with fencing? Everyone keeps telling me I can get one for like 10 11k and yet the last two estimates I got were for 20 and 54k!?
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May 8, 2022 12:29
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270 feet with avinyl fence. There's existing fence on about half of it that needs to be torn down. E; sorry I'm just getting sticker shock because I had expected so much and now it's much higher
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May 8, 2022 18:04
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VelociBacon posted:because my cat Give up
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May 15, 2022 23:44
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more falafel please posted:I have a crappy-ish Hunter ceiling fan I got from Home Depot and installed myself a few years ago. Unfortunately, the medium and low speeds are effectively useless, so I pretty much only run it on high. In the last year or so, it started sometimes not switching to high, or it would switch to high but not actually get up to speed. It's unclear to me if it's the motor, the switch, the speed controller, or something else, but now it won't go on high at all, which makes it an ugly light fixture. You may have blown the motor running it full speed all the time
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Jul 22, 2023 18:09
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:There is a world of difference between the contractor special big box fans sold under the Hunter brand and the real Hunter fans. The real ones can stay on for decades at a time with maybe an occasional bit of lubrication. How do I know the difference
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Jul 22, 2023 19:22
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But but but my hunter green uses the official app!
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Jul 22, 2023 20:14
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Lmao
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Jul 29, 2023 23:50
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Every toilet in my house was grouted to the floor and all were leaking but I couldn't tell because, again, they were grouted to the floor. The only sign was a stain in the ceiling
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Mar 19, 2024 22:38
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PainterofCrap posted:To be fair: the vast majority of closet-flange leaks (from the wax ring) do not show in the bathroom, around the toilet, but on the ceiling/wall of the room(s) below. So even if they hadn't grouted, there may not have been anything to see. Everyone I've had out took one look and said "you don't do that" everyone, except, my inspector when I bought the house
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Mar 20, 2024 08:49
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Also the subfloors are too thin and they're not sitting on joists they were only ran to the wall, ahhhhhhhh
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Mar 20, 2024 16:13
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Your flanges and valves are probably also secure to something so that when you sit on the toilet all the force isn't applied directly to the pipe. My flanges were load-bearing
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