Wow, that was a huge task. It's a good thing you have a lot of knowledge about electricity . Im sure Ginny is thankful you can do all that work. Great job.
I worked at Lowes for 3 years. We would lose so much wire to theft that I'm not surprised it's all locked up now. You can't stop them from walking out and there's basically no punishment for retail theft, so this was the likely the only viable option.
The cost of wire is very high now. When I got my house it was $50-60 for 250 foot of wire, the contractor that helped me told me to buy as much as possible at that price. By the time I finished wiring the house it was already $90 a roll.
There is something satisfying about work that is done neat and tidy, even if it is not seen. Loved the green T shirt, looks so comfortable and allows arm movement. Thanks for another great video!
When I built my house in SC years ago, I installed lights in the crawl space. I was taught that in trade school back in the 1960’s. Good practice IMHO.
Nice! It sure makes a difference, not having to drag a work light all over. As a bonus, you can do a visual scan to be sure nothing is lurking in the darkness before going in.
Sorry you had to go under the house Mike, but I enjoyed revisiting the Electrical Box. I appreciate the hard work you put in to keep your house safe. Jeanie is there to help when needed, and does a great job with the camera. Wax on, Wax off! 🥰🥰
Dude was too funny in this episode. The Award-winner was, "I feel like I'm hitching up a team here." I had to play it back a couple of times! Tooooo FUNNY! LOL
Knowing that my knowledge of anything electric, and the fact I live in England, is non existent I find it fascinating to watch you moving wires, cables, climbing under your house and generally updating the houses system. I have a question - why do you not just use just one box outside and get ride of the old one? Here in the UK the system is so different to yours and all wiring goes via one ‘consumer’ unit with fuse cartridges . I enjoy watching you both and always wait to see what you are doing with anticipation.
Hi Julia....great question! If you go back a year or so you can see the episode that cover the electrical updating. In a nutshell, the utility company ran a new underground line to our house. I installed a new meter box and breaker panel. To avoid interrupting the electric power for too long, I ran power from the new panel back to the old one just to get the house back online without delay. Over time we have been moving the circuits off of the old panel over to the new panel. Eventually the old panel will be able to come out. Thanks for watching!
You know how it is here in the PNW... the ocassional frog here and there! ☺️ Gun shot from your nightly drive by... 🙄 (St. Johns/Minnehaha area) Hugs you two💖 Jeanie's smile is so contageous!
Always a pleasure to watch what you do. The thought of electrical wiring, even the fact you can do it yourself, is anathema to me. So good to know people can actually do it themselves if they have the knowledge. Greetings from NZ, where we are over-regulated. Nobody is allowed to do all this, it has to be done by a registered electrician, with no guarantee even they will get it right. Kudos, and aren't you glad you live in America?
There is a lot that we can do here. We have to follow the building codes but there is very little that homeowners can't do. That said, I've seen some really sketchy work that homeowners have done!
A removable sheet metal enclosure at the bottom of the breaker panel that extends down to the bottom of the rim joist would solve your full conduit issue. Just remove the conduit and route the cables from the bottom of the panel through holes drilled through the rim joist, and then cover with an enclosure.
How wonderful that you are so confident with electrical stuff. Maybe I should steer one of the grandchildren into that field lol. Thanks for another great video 😊
I didn't realize you could wax outdoor electrical boxes. We got a new box several years ago and I was also sad to see it get faded so we will have to try waxing it. Good tip! I bet your hands were sore after all that work with the electrical work, Mike. I hope you have recovered! Have a good week, friends!
Hi Jennifer! This is actually the first time I've ever waxed an electrical panel, but it worked out pretty well. Let us know what happens when you rub some TurtleWax on there. :-)
As you populate that new panel, try and keep the amp load balanced on each leg of the incoming power. Adding another conduit is a good idea since it looks like that existing one is overloaded already. Also, I may be incorrect here, but I do believe you cannot use a bare EGC (Equipment Grounding Conductor) as the neutral on your furnace circuit.
Mike, what a blessing it is that you know enough n you’re safe enough to do electrical work. I was quite impressed I really enjoyed this video. I learn a few things too but I’m still going to call for an electrician or you. Curious here. You like everything nice looking like polishing up the electrical panel but you forgot about that big green area on the house LOL. Just for curiosity is there a reason why? Love hearing the cicadas. Yes, they can be loud but it brings back memories to me as a child. ♥️♥️😊👍👍🌟
Funny you should ask about the paint patch. I was just thinking about that the other day. I made a homebrew batch of paint a long while back and I used the wrong kind of linseed oil. It went rancid and moldy, turning it black. I've had to wait a long time for it to finish molding before I can fix it. I hope to revisit the subject in the near future.
I understand when you don't have the right tools to do a simple job. I just moved into my newly constructed home and I decided to save myself about $500.00 and put the cabinet handles on my solid wood cabinet. I had to order the drill bits and handles. I even bought a jig to do the perfect job. Well the jig was a piece of 💩, anyway a plain piece of masking tape and a measuring tape was all I really needed but it took a lot of measuring, and measuring again before drilling into my nice cabinets. Then there were a couple of handles that where the screw goes the manufacturer made them 1-2mm off so then I had to fudge the hole a bit and struggle to get them to fit, but I eventually did.
I have a heat pump with AC and your compressor still looks HUGE compared to mine. Yours is only meant to be doing half your house, mine is doing my entire house. WOW, your homemade linseed oil paint concoction REALLY did not work That area looks awful in a very short period of time. Commercial paint, backed up by decades of company research, sure looks like a better choice.
We were shocked by how quickly the green patch turned black. We've done a bunch of research into what happened and there is a good explanation. We now know what went wrong and what we should have done differently, which we'll talk about soon. It is possible to make homebrew historic paint.
