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I'd straddle the porch roof with the LG17 and zip up to the low slope side. Not a fan of Telesteps.

Uh, haven't you ever seen a stab wired outlet before? [:-tong2][:-tong2][:-tong2] The light didn't work because the wire isn't stabbed in far enough. Geeze, where is that sarcasm emoticon?

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You just gotta admire someone who can write intelligently AND Humorously about fake testicles for dogs! You just gotta! Kinda like you gotta admire a newbie who is smart enough to put his report out there for us to pick apart. You know it's a good idea. You also know that a bunch who won't do it are quietly revising their reporting based on the comments in this thread.

I hope I'm in good enough health when I'm 84 to even consider doing this type of stuff myself. Get a kid to do the dirty work. You crawl around and supervise to make sure he does it right. He'll benefit from the learning.

Hendrix was a good one, wasn't he! Loved to hear his guitar.

Entertaining and enlightening, but this early in the morning it makes my head spin. Need coffee! I'd have to come down on the "overhang" side for most residential construction. I've always thought of cantilevers as being supported only at one end, kinda like the big ole cantilevered arm holding up the traffic lights that's only supported from the one pole on the corner of the intersection.

Did y'all see the segment on the CBS Early Show this morning about deck collapses. Some good info for homeowners and publicity for the issue!

Richard: Why is the top of the left end of the middle wire brown if it's single strand aluminum?

Now that's IS funny stuff and puts a very humourous image in my head of how to "dictate without any heirs" -

Made in U.K. Someone brought that puppy a long way from home..

Bill: Because they wanted to and could, so they did!

Not always. Look very carefully at the ends of the wire on the bus bars. If you see a brown spot in the middle it's tinned copper. Look at the bare ground wires for any nicks that would show the brown copper beneath the tin. Might pull an outlet cover to see if the end of the wire or nicks can be seen. Look closely at the wire sheathing wherever it is exposed. Like Bill said. Training & Experience. The nice thing is that SOME Experience can be prepared for, not experienced, but prepared for on THIS messasge board. Far better to hang your ass out here than on the job. Perhaps it would help you learn better if you offered to pay the electrician's charges. It would certainly help with customer relations. I learn more from my mistakes when they hurt, hopefully just a little! -

With Mike as the Left Hand????

I tell em all. I don't see any downside to it. But I've have seen an upside for a few of them that found permits weren't completed or work wasn't propelry done to municipal requirements. Somebody had to pay to complete them, i.e. inspection and payment of fees or fix it to comply with municipal requirements and then re-inspection and payment of fees. Where's the downside?

It's great that we can all do it the way that works best for us. I've always done photos, lots of them for the record, only important ones for the report. I keep em all, disk space is cheap. I started with Palm-Tech. Yeah the glitz got me. (for a couple thousand I might add) (later I also added "dumbass"). Put the report together. (not much flexibility.) Put the photo album together. Caption the photos. I finally switched to HomeGauge because I can make it do what I (did I say I) want without having to computer program. And I don't "have to" (though I can) caption the photos. The photos are just slipped into the report under the appropriate comment. Here's some screen shots. Click to Enlarge 59.01 KB I drag or doubleclick the photos in the film strip at right and they open in an editing window to size them as I choose and option to add all the circles, arrows, text, etc. Photos in the film strip are greyed out so I know I used them in the report. Report writing is (for me) done by going down the film strip and commenting - inserting photos as needed for the defects. When I'm done with the photos, I use the "Find next unanswered" to fill in the blanks that I haven't answered yet, styles & materials type stuff. The report itself looks like: Click to Enlarge 39.53 KB It has all the SOP junk I need to cover in the main report. I write it, but I can't make em read it. The report summary looks like: Click to Enlarge 37.84 KB That's the defective stuff (and a little marketing at the front of it). Here's a multi-page view. It shows comments and photos together. Click to Enlarge 43.8 KB I agree that it's great we can discuss this stuff without the flames & rancor that are common on other boasrds. To each their very own!

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It's not. You're right. But as a condo, it should probably be wired as a sub-panel with separated neutrals and grounds. The main disconnect is someplace central, probably close to the meter bank. One I have a picture of looks like this: Click to Enlarge 41.52 KB I'd just list a few of the problems like: Doubled neutrals and grounds Neutrals and grounds on the same bus bar in a sub panel Overheated red wire at bottom right White wires used as hot wires Double tapped/lugged breaker at mid left etc and dump it off to a licensed electrician for repair of those issues and any others the electrician finds while conducting repairs. -It's a great place to be smart and ask questions at, isn't it?

Ramon, It's a typical mounting for that area. In regards to the mounting on the bars, not much other than what I said above may be mentioned verbally. I don't spend much time praising the things done right. -

There's lots of two wire cable still in use around here. I see GFCI on those quite frequently, though not frequently enough.

Common install in northern Kentucky is too mount the unit on two galvanized pipes stuck into the foundation wall. Keeps em off the ground, level, and above the average weed whacker. Click to Enlarge 51.74 KB

GFCI receptacles can only protect what is downstream of the GFCI. The lines remain hot between the panel and the GFCI. So, technically speaking, Yes it must be the first one if you want to protect each outlet on the circuit. If you want to protect all of the circuit, including wiring, it should be a GFCI breaker in the panel.

Better to be wrong here than in public!

I think your stuff is great and innovative, but I doubt those ropes will do much for it going over backward. Sure keep it from slipping sideways though. Safety First!

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