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as for the garage part, you mean i should air seal the garage from the house? i bought 20 air chutes today, will see how far along i get tomorrow with air sealing the house and installing them.

so we have just received our first bill from the gas company at my first house. was. not. prepared. $170! for gas! fast forward a few days (today) i come home from work, and for the first time was noticing how everyone had a snow covered roof (very light flurries today) - and when i get...

i used flexible conduit up to the sill plate, for aesthetic reasons mostly. there was an open box that made flexible/water tight conduit cheaper than any other, so i went with that. plus its pretty :D

The pump I have can't pull much current, the wiring is too small. It was most likely the cheapest thing the seller could find at home Depot or Lowes. Got almost everything done today, but I forgot to check which breaker type I have, and picked up the wrong outlet box for the gfci outlet...

hey folks - just moved into my first house recently, and first projects were all plumbing related. purchased a gas dryer (no hookups for electric, prefer gas anyway), changed water and gas plumbing to be acceptable and less hideous. also had to replace the water heater on day 3, which was...

Hell, cat6 can do 10 gigabit up to 160 feet (6a to 330 feet) I couldn't imagine needing that kind of speed through your home at any point in the near future.

Save wire? They put a 3 prong outlet on a line that only has a hot and neutral - there is no actual ground wire. Either way, I will be replacing the old wire and adding more outlets. 20x20 room only has 4......

There is some shoddy electrical, but I chose to not address it after the inspection. Grounded outlets put on 2 conductor fabric-wrapped wire, so no grounds 0_o - figured if we had him do it, they would either put in non grounded outlets, or jump ground to neutral and fool the tester. I'll just...

I have to make an actual list, but step 1 is going to he fixing old and crappy wiring. Plenty of old cloth wrapped stuff, connected to grounded outlets....... Will be working after move in, since I can do everything room by room. House was built in 1960, current seller is a flipper (and...

There is more to cat6 than just Internet. Wired is stable, so you can do internet, video, audio, virtually any type of home automation..... Even with internet, a wireless signal can die down (especially the faster 5ghz stuff of 802.11n/ac) so using cable for multiple access points can be...

the "usual" for today/futureproofing is at least dual cat6 to each room. i woudl do at least dual cat5e to 2 places in each room, home run to an easily accessible space - even if you dont use them now, some keystone punch-downs would add resale value and be very useful if you ever need them...

howdy folks! i would love to say how i found this place, but.....hell i dont know anymore! started poking around on a garage forum, ended up looking for plumbing, moved to electric, then this! anywho - new guy here, been doing some reading tonight. currently living in a hellhole of an...