Of Course

As it would always be, there was no fixing the electrical as easily as I expected.

The outlet in the kitchen I wanted to fix had to be DXed completely. It had an open neutral problem but after moving all the wires around and even trying another receptacle, the problem was still there so instead of leaving a dangerous outlet available, I capped off the wires, and put a blank plate over the box so no one would get hurt in the future trying to use it. I am assuming that something is wrong with the neutral line farther up the line (which is weird because both outlets on the other sides of this one work great). Anyhow, I had kind of resigned myself to not using that outlet anyhow so no big loss and at least it is now safer than it was before.

Found out pretty fast that the new breaker box is not labeled correctly so I have been relabeling it where I can just so I can be sure what I am turning on and off. Found an outlet in one of the bedrooms that is wired backwards but I am not using that one right now so it will be one I fix later. The switch I need to change out so that the attic light will work will require me to turn off the main power so I will tackle the one in the bedroom at the same time as I do that.

In my attempt to turn off the power in the dining room (where the computers are hooked up), I found that the livingroom was wired too so I figured since I had more room in the livingroom to work, I would try one of the outlets in there first to see what I was looking at. Turns out that these outlets are all the older wiring and there is hardly any slack in the line to work with so I had to Lowe's to get groundwire (the boxes are metal so I can ground the new plugs to the box itself) and to see about getting some splice. I don't know if I can pull off the splice, it just depend on how much room there is in the box for everything to fit...but at least I can try it on this one outlet and know from there out if it will be easy or hard to do for the rest.

So today is going to be an electrical day again but I am hoping that by the end of the day, I'll have the outlets redone and up to code, and that I will have my wireless, PC and printer all up and running so I can move my laptop off the computer desk. First though, I need to get some exercise and a trip to Target in.

Ja mata ne (see you later in Japanese).