My current 200 AMP electrical service attaches to the rear of my single-family house's second-story roofline, and passes over a single story addition.
During an electrical inspection, the city inspector recommended that the service be raised up since anyone walking on the addition roof (or...
I'm doing a Manual J calculation (using version 7) for a two-story, with a finished basement, house.
For the number of occupants (for sensible and latent heat gain), the example in the Manual J book specifies using one more person than the number of bedrooms in the house.
But, my question...
I had a few questions in regards to doing multiple pours for a basement floor (with rebar tying the sections together).
1. If you do multiple pours, do the 'joints' between the sections become natural crack lines?
2. When doing a new pour next to an existing cured section, what (if...
I'll go first...
When is a cardboard box a case?
I recently ordered construction window shims from, Mr. Shims.
He sells a kit of shims that contains a variety of sizes and which is described as:
'Our assortment kits are enclosed in a heavy duty cardboard box. Inside are placed 100ea...
I would do the following:
1. Run a single 14-2 to master bedroom and run the overhead lights for the closet and bedroom on same circuit.
2. Run a single 14-2 to master bedroom and run to the receptacles
3. Run a single 14-2 to second bedroom and run the overhead lights for the closet...
am redoing the plaster walls in a room in my house in New York (I am also opening up the wall cavities to redo the electrical wiring). I don't expect to find any insulation in my 2x4 walls (house built in the 1920's). I was thinking about furring out the walls to a true 2 x 6", then cutting...