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Artista
Feb 26, 2014, 10:42 AM
We have lived in our new 'old' home (built in 1970) since the end of December of last year.
There are 2 full bathrooms, upstairs and downstairs.
The downstairs bathroom NEEDS updating and renovation work which I had started doing.
The downstairs bathroom has 2 wall mounted lights and also an electrical outlet on the same wall panel which I had to remove in order to pull off the panels. I shut off the specific circuit breaker and then capped off all the wires.
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At some point PRIOR to all of that though-
When the power was still on , I accidentally pushed down on the outlet and one of the wires touched the box edge which, OF COURSE, SPARKED and shut off the circuit breaker.

After cleaning out the interior of the wall, adding new insulation, shifting over one of the wall mounted light wires approx 1 foot to the left and then securing the outlet box better.. I had reinstalled the sub and wall panels back in place.
There had been NO DAMAGE to any of the wiring when I moved it over.
I turned the circuit breaker back on for the bathroom and low and behold -the outlet showed no power.. I thought that maybe the original outlet was damaged so I shut off the circuit breaker and installed a new one that Ive had in my tool box.
NO POWER.
I shut off the circuit breaker again and decided to test the wires using my "pocket II Protek" Electrical Tester.
Setting it at AC V I touched the wires for the outlet wires and the wall light's wires..
They all showed only 7.79v

I really need pro advice! Please help.. thank you all

OOPs, I meant to say that I tested all of the wiring with the circuit breaker back ON..

Artista
Feb 26, 2014, 12:09 PM
I FIXED this issue

talaniman
Feb 26, 2014, 01:29 PM
What was the solution just being curious?