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I understand why the two poles or breakers need to be on separate bus bars or "Phases", and how the neutral will take the difference. And I understand how if the two hot wires are not on separate bus...

I want to run 8 new circuits, four 15 amp and four 20amp. Each can be paired with a beginning run of a 14/ 3 or 12/3 wire from the breaker box to a junction box and then can be split off so that a...

I would like to add that in going around the house and checking many of the lamps with metal casings, they almost all set the detector off. So either there is a house wide problem or it is not a...

I am going to change the wire feeding the lamp to a new 14 gage run between the switch and the lamp. But before doing that, I temporarily put up a new lamp on the old wire and its case does not seem...

My mother is attached to a hard sought and found outside wall mount lamp above her garage. The metal lamp case sets off my current indicator as much as 110-120 volts do. I knew we have touched it in...

4 electricians gave estimates to upgrade a service box from 100 to 200 amps. Only one felt that the new panel should definitely be moved because the old one is smaller and sits up against the gas...

What happens theoretically to a receptacle when the hot and neut wires are hooked up to the reverse screws?

This is a question about the anatamy of a non GFCI receptacle. Besides the difference...

I have an open unfinished basement with a 20 amp circuit which supplies only a junktion box. It used to have a pull light on it. I have continued the 12 gage wire, which entered the junction box...

We paid, in good faith--and stupidity--, a contractor who promised that he would correct a leaking gutter he just put up and which he saw leaking and admitted was improperly constructed. Furthermore...

A plumber left us mid way through with only two copper hot and cold water lines coming up through the floor and cabinet. I want to finish the job and attach turn off valves and lines to the...

I have done a bit of electrical work installing lighting and outlets and running new service to new appliances. I need to upgrade an old electrical breaker box from 100 amp to 200 amp. I want to know...

What is the proper step by step procedure from shutting off gas to turning it back on when installing a shut off valve to the stove gas line? When one shuts off the main gas do I need to wait any...

How do I properly attach the flex pipe to the gas stove on one end and the supply pipe on the other end? Do I need a gas poxy? If so what is the proper method of application--on both sides of the...