There are 100 places that make sense to power the lights/install transformer. It is looking more and more like they didn't use any of them and instead decided to be asshats.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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daught
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I have to patch a concrete slab that was cut out. I poured quikere and leveled it to ~1/4" below the slab. Can I use self-leveling concrete as the final topper since I have some extra? How long do I have to wait for the sakrete to harden before I coud pour the self leveling concrete?
Quikrete spec https://www.quikrete.com/pdfs/data_sheet-concrete mix 1101.pdf
Sika Level-125CA https://s7d2.scene7.com/s7viewers/h...tcanada/Instruction_1000777427_EN-pdf-pdf.pdf
Quikrete spec https://www.quikrete.com/pdfs/data_sheet-concrete mix 1101.pdf
Sika Level-125CA https://s7d2.scene7.com/s7viewers/h...tcanada/Instruction_1000777427_EN-pdf-pdf.pdf
A TDR will, at best, give you a distance but not direction to the next connection. It works on any cable NMSC or bell wire. A tracker (Hound and hare type) sometimes gives direction. Has any one tried a Walbot for jobs like this? I'd buy one just for kicks but I'm not sure if they work with iphones yet. My luck with tracking house wiring hasn't been great.
Since the switch leg romex is going up out of the switch, my money is on transformer being generally up. 6" indication on tdr means dropping a cabinet. 6' indication means it may be in attic.
Nice to see 2x4 coming back down....$5/each. What were they before the pandemic surge?
I’m looking at adding an outdoor pot light at the far end of each soffit. Pot lights in soffit now but they didn’t put one at the very end of each corner. Is it easy enough to tie into the boxes that are there and should those boxes be in the soffit or are they mounted inwards more? LED pot lights and the house is only 2yrs old. Reaching into the soffits from the attic isn’t overly easy but likely doable.
Regarding windows, we had ours done by Pollard. Can’t comment yet on durability but the gobs of visible silicone on the joints annoy me.
Regarding windows, we had ours done by Pollard. Can’t comment yet on durability but the gobs of visible silicone on the joints annoy me.
Close off or block your heating vents if you have forced air + keep door closed as much as possible. I purchased a 6" inline duct fan, used to boost flow in your HVAC system, mounted it to a piece of 1/4" plywood cut to fit a window opening and run it to pull as much dusty air out of the room as is possible and dump it outside. This seems to be pretty effective is preventing dust from circulating in your HVAC system and coating everything in the house.
You can often get a fish tape to skate along the soffit (or tiny rc car pulling a string). Accessing soffits from the attic sucks.
I can’t access it from the inside. The slope is so small that I physically can’t get in there.
Annoyingly our electrician also refused that part of the job because he didn’t feel like doing it from the exterior. Hence why I have only lights on the bottom half of our house in the soffit.
The pot lights on the back or our house never worked after changing the bulbs I asked the previous owner/ butcher he said oh ya that's complicated and left it at the lol.
Sent from the future
I need to learn to be more comfortable of working on ladders….life is so much easier when I can go up.
Currently I am NOT at all comfortable on ladders above 5-6ft.
Trying to swap out the incandescents/halogens loved by the previous owner with led's had me on the top step of my ladder (inside as a stepladder, outside as extension ladder). I didn't love either of those so I bought a bigger ladder. Led's havent died yet so I haven't had to access either of those locations again.
If you want to be more comfortable on an aluminum/fibreglass ladder, give an antique wood ladder a try. It's like climbing a noodle. Add in rungs breaking to teach you to keep your feet tight to the rails.
DownUnder
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From memory fear of heights is one of only 2 instinctual fears humans have, the other being eaten by a bigger animal. So it takes a fair bit to get your mind around it until it doesnt bother you. Also most deaths on ladders are from under 10 ft, usually people getting complacent or using A frames incorrectly.
Complacency is definitely not an issue on my end.
My buddy that’s a painter runs up and down ladders like a gazelle.
Personally I’m either going to rent a scaffold or a JLG for a week to access all the high points of the house.
Fishing wire through the soffit is easy enough and I don’t mind doing that from the attic. It’s getting at the boxes I’m concerned about. If they’re in the soffit I’m not positive I can reach them well enough from the attic to wire in a lead for the next pot light.
Unless of course the boxes will come out the pot light holes in which case that’ll be easy. I’m under the assumption the boxes are screwed in to wood inside but I could be wrong.
I highly suspect the boxes will be attached to the lights. That's the normal way. A fixed box that you had to access through a 3" hole would probably not count as accessible.
At work they said on a ladder you needed to maintain 3 points of contact. I said fine but that rules out carrying anything in one hand. They're response "oh sure you can". Of course it's physically impossible.
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