Recent content by medwar

Thanks y'all. I will let you know how it goes....

Kabris - if that was the case - would either of those 40amp breakers kill the house? Right now only the one marked "main" will.

So my goal right now is to understand just how dangerous this house is - i.e if the landlord does not want to fix it do we want to move out? Our rental market is stupid where we live - over 100 applications on every opening. What is the risk with these two funky panels? As I understand it...

Thanks everyone. My weekend goal is no longer getting power to the garage - but getting the landlord to fix the house...... So california law says [the rental unit must "substantially comply" with building and housing code standards that materially affect tenants' health and safety]. Is this...

Thanks y'all - I really appreciate it. Two things I should clarify: 1- (at the risk of getting laughed out of the forum) Im renting this house. The landlord says he'll get "his guy" to come look at it - but thats been in the works for some time now and I would like to get it done (and he said...

I have a detached garage with remnants of knob-and-tube that I would like to rewire. There is a newer NM line coming out of the attic running exposed to the garage that has been cut at the house. The stub that has been taped off is dead according to my voltage sensor. There is a working motion...