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    Old house, door strikes frame

    While that's true from a legal standpoint, my friend and I both work for a living (he owns a business, I'm a network engineer) Neither one of us would be making any money while we sat in court all day waiting on our minor case to be heard, paying the fees to file and answer to the case...
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    How to determine if a main breaker panel is grounded correctly?

    I think I'll call around and see the pricing for that. I have the materials to water drill it, which is supposed to be just as fast Installing Ground Rods the Easy Way. That being said, you should also follow the NFPA NEC guidelines Electrical Code vs. Good RF Grounding (BlueJay, I...
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    Cabinets for garage

    Heh... once again, I'm with Joe! I have two sets of cabinets that I got -- one was $125 for four cabinets. One was seven cabinets at "free if you'll take them off my property so I don't get charged by the cabinet company" Both came from talking to the crews that installed cabinets...
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    Old house, door strikes frame

    I'm with you on this one, JoeCaption --- I've bought and hung doors in two hours before, and I'm NOT some kind of semi-pro carpenter or handyman. So long as the frame is reasonably square, a new door shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to install, and only costs about $180 for a...
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    How to determine if a main breaker panel is grounded correctly?

    I had another electrician come out and look - He thinks it's an UFER ground as well... We're going to replace the entire line running to the inside panel when we put in the new panel, and will add the fourth wire then. A previous electrician had suggested just adding a ground wire, but the...
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    How to determine if a main breaker panel is grounded correctly?

    Hi all - I have a wood frame house on concrete slabs. I have a main breaker panel in the garage, with the meter directly connected to the top of that panel (no spacer or conduit run to the meter) I'm trying to determine whether or not the main panel is correctly grounded or not, by NFPA...
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