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Could be either rollout switch or limit switch possibly

Well it's not really operational. It's an old fuse panel from the 50's. the landlord took everything out of it and ran some of his new lines from the new 200 amp panel he put in the new addition into the old panel to tie into the old wiring. He redid everything in the late 90's.

Yes it has a cover. Thanks for your help.

I have a friend who just moved into a new house. He is renting and the landlord had bought it as a farm house and renovated it and put two new additions on it. When he redid the electrical in the old part, he left the old fuse panel in place and ran a mix of new 12-2, 14-2, and 14-3 into the...

If it smells like a rotten egg smell, I would have the gas company come out and check your water heater and furnace. Natural gas smells like sewage also.

I live in PA. The indoor outlet is a standard 15 amp outlet. I went ahead today and installed a watertight outlet box on the porch. I pigtailed off of the indoor plug with 12/2 nm wire and wired it to the line side of the gfi. Tested it and everything works fine. Thanks everyone for your help!

Ok. Thank you so much

Hello. I'm planning on installing a gfci outlet on my front porch. There is a plug on the front exterior wall of my living room that has the porch light tied into it and that is it. It is a 20 amp circuit. The location where I want my porch plug will be in the same stud bay as the interior...

Your house may still be settling. The old part of my house was built in the 1950's and its still settling

I have a whirlpool electric water heater that was installed about 4-5 years ago. Recently, I noticed sometimes the water is scalding hot and other times it is just hot like it should be. I set the temp to 120 when I first had it installed. I also noticed that it sounds quieter than it used to...

Warm air rises. So when you have a cold chimney, you get what's called a downdraft because all of the cold air is being forced down the chimney. When it's warm and the chimneys warm then the air will be going up the chimney

Negative air pressure is another word for downdraft. Usually caused by too much wind pressure or trees around your chimney so you are not getting the proper draft in your chimney to pull all of the co2 off of your hot water tank. Instead of air going up your chimney, it is getting pushed down.

Well my parents are looking at another house to rent since they can't get ahold of the landlord and he wants to sell the house. They didn't want to buy it and fix it up cause they dont have that kind of money and every inch of the electrical needs redone and I know what I'm talking about when I...

They have a co detector right by the hot air vent closest to the furnace and one by the furnace and it has never went off

The microwave still works. My mom has it on a different plug. The fan works fine, they just never use the plug. The scary thing is he did all of the electrical in the house and one old plug in the bedroom quit working and there are a lot of circuits that are overloaded. The furnace runs their...