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They didn't tell you that you have to have at least one random switch in your house that you have no idea what it does? That's like house owning 101
They didn't tell you that you have to have at least one random switch in your house that you have no idea what it does? That's like house owning 101
It's not needed. Lazy/cheap electrician who ran the line connected it through the GFCI in the bathroom because it's on a close wall to avoid having to run a separate line to a point farther away.
), he'd deliberately overbuy on his jobs, bill the client for the extra material, and then take the extra material home to use on his own house. All the outlets are dark brown while all the walls are white. I am gradually replacing them over time.
I've never, ever heard of anything like that. Is this a gated community by any chance? Or governed by an HOA?
I have no problem respecting anti-noise ordinances except during the winter for snow removal. Many times one needs to stay ahead of the storm in order to keep up.
Battery yard tools aren't really much quieter than gas powered. To me they tend to be a much more annoying higher pitch sound. As for the "stink"... something doesn't smell right there.
Properly running lawn and garden equipment should not smell at distances of more than a few feet.Agreed. Saturday is my day for yard work and to tinker with my toys. I collect and rebuild chainsaws and am forever running them in the yard. My neighbors know it and tolerate it, while I tolerate their Harley's, hot rods, and diesel pickups.
That's exactly what those regulations are for - to keep out the riff-raff who can't afford gardeners who work during the week. Get rich or get out.
Not sure why you think 2 circuits in a box is an issue. if you don't know enough to be safe you shouldn't be working in the box. Also power to a light is done all the time but 2014 code says you have to have the grounded conductor at the switch so that means a piece of 12/3 or 14/3 from light to switch instead of the usual 12/2,14/2 romexMy own pet peeve is the guy who runs the power to the load first and then to the switch.
Also high on my list is the guy who runs two different circuits into the same outlet box, UNLESS it is for kitchen counters, in which case my peeve is exactly the opposite. Our local building code requires that if you have two sets of outlets in one box in the kitchen that they be on different circuits to prevent overload. You are supposed to run two circuits to kitchen outlets in our town, one for each of the left-hand outlets and one for each of the right-hand outlets. Anyway, for other outlets, I'm really glad that I always check each pair separately, as I have more than once found one outlet off and one on after I turned off a circuit breaker.
We had a weird thing one time from a do-it-yourselfer who ignored code, in which running the microwave in the kitchen and an air conditioner on the second floor at the same time would trip the circuit breaker. This dolt also did not pigtail any of the outlets on any circuit in the house, which meant that if one outlet failed everything downstream also would be out of service. It was a real pain trying to find out which was the faulty outlet since it was really hard to tell in which direction the circuit ran.
Finally, a real trivial annoyance, but still.....the guy was a dishonest contractor (we only learned this detail after we had already moved in...
