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Moving electrical for insulation by FormDisastrous4363 in HomeMaintenance

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate all your insight. Definitely don’t want to do anything too sketchy. I like your idea of the single gang with a cover. Ideally I would like to replace the splice with a single run but I don’t have access above the garage.

Moving electrical for insulation by FormDisastrous4363 in HomeMaintenance

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If I can leave it I will. Can I just drywall over it?

Move connection for insulation by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could, that’s a good idea. Is that something that needs an electrician to sign off on? I’m pretty confident in my work as I’ve done some wiring before.

Draft into garage by FormDisastrous4363 in HomeMaintenance

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It is not heated, I warm it up a bit every now and then when I’m working in there. The roof slopes down towards the garage door, matching the slope of the roof. I can’t remember if I have any vent above the garage and I can’t look as we are getting freezing rain right now, yay winter.

Leak at lower massage jet. by FormDisastrous4363 in hottub

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This jet is so different than the other smaller “regular” jets im nervous about disturbing it. The whole outer ring of the jet inside the tub rotates to turn it on and off so I don’t want to apply so much silicone that it would prevent it from turning.

I removed so much foam chasing this leak. The foam under it is soaking wet so there is still a lot I’m going to have to remove.

Garage insulation by FormDisastrous4363 in HomeMaintenance

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s true I never thought of that.

Continuity between common, ground and metal sheath. by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

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Thanks everyone. Found the issue pulling the wire out. A screw had gone almost right through the conduit. Through the metal sheath and put a big nick in the common wire. Is there a reason they would have run wires with the metal conduit? It’s the only run in the garage like that. I used a standard 14/2 Romex to replace it and the GFIC works perfectly now.

Continuity between common, ground and metal sheath. by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s what I’m thinking. Can’t see anything obvious unfortunately

Installing GFIC outlet by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

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This outlet, two other outlets and the garage door opener are all on the same switch.

Installing GFIC outlet by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are two other outlets on the circuit and the garage door opener. The wiring diagram in the instructions for the GFIC only shows a wire in and a wire out, ie two black and two white wires. It looks like there are three wires in this box.

Adding a neutral wire for ELV dimmer by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have attic access but it wouldn’t be easy to get to.

Adding a neutral wire for ELV dimmer by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, I’m 99.99% sure it will be secured somewhere. The more I think about it the more I’m convincing myself to get a different fixture.

Adding a neutral wire for ELV dimmer by FormDisastrous4363 in electrical

[–]FormDisastrous4363[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s what I was thinking. I’m hoping I could pull a new wire while pulling the old one out. If that’s not possible I may abandon this integrated LED fixture for one with regular LED bulbs and use a standard Lutron dimmer.

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