Ummm, bro I've got something, hell a few things, you need to know about picking a spot for a garden, as well as plant spacing
Uhhhh sounds like you’re closer to rewiring your whole damn house. (Did you check the garage or outside for outlets?) This is where Houzz and Pinterest excel Definitely worth it to save $3 on tomatoes (view is phenomenal, very jealous!)
There’s beauty everywhere my man. Except Lubbock. Everywhere else though. Spoiler Grand Canyon of Texas is actually beautiful too
Electric company came out and the issue was one of the wires had basically reached its lifespan. They hooked up a replacement and someone will come permanently fix in near future.
We’ve had a ton of rain in the last week, and he said he thought the wire had been compromised by age/water. Personally, just glad I got power back
I’ve been trying to think this out all morning now. Based on the power being out to most (but not all) of the house, it had to be service wire. Not everything was out though, so it wasn’t the neutral. Had to be a phase conductor, but if that’s the case he’s got a WILDLY unbalanced panel.
I'm with you, I can't make sense of it. This one wire was supplying power to like 90% of the house? How many circuits does he have? two? I could understand if like all the outlets went out in a section, cause they are daisy chained together but like I said that's a lot of power to lose to most the house in this scenario.
I would probably get a second opinion. Minimally you had a wire fail which means you were close to possibly having a fire.
I feel like 75% of outdoor kitchens look like an overgrown mess in 5 years after being used twice but maybe my read is off
Depends how handy you are. Had this happen on one of my doors once, knocked out the middle part completely, ripped down a 2x4 to fit in there. Screwed that in to secure and then reattached the spindle/peg/whatever you want to call it to the 2x4
Literally can't think of a way that this occurs. The conductors from the service each carry one leg of 120, so lights and stuff should work, while heat/range/dryer wouldn't. I'm not an electrical engineer, but think I have the above correct, or at least that is how it was explained to me when the meter base at my old place caught on fire....... power company wouldn't own up to it, but they had just installed a remote read meter, and mine wasn't the only one that went defective. Happened on about the coldest day of the year at 5am. Just good fortune that I was home and alarm had just gone off.
Andy Reocho Is there any chance your master bedroom is on a different circuit? Like a renovation or addition where a whole new and separate circuit breaker was added?
That's honestly what I wondered. They re-did the bathroom, but I don't think they did a full renovation. They also re-did the kitchen. The breaker box is very poorly labeled/marked, and that is something I'm going to talk to an electrician about doing.
Might want to have the panel exorcised while you're at it, because I genuinely don't understand how the symptoms you observed (not that I doubt you) could be related to the service entrance cable. Outside chance that the bedroom breaker is the only thing on one side of the panel, but that seems very unlikely. Post a pic of your panel if you feel like it, just with the door open so we can see the breakers. How old is your house? Apologies if you've mentioned that already, but I'm interested af in what is going on.
Sounds like your house is wired like mine. Breaker will trip and it’ll the effect the garage and bathroom, opposites sides of the house, lol. Out box is a mess, and doubled up. We have 220 service (or whatever) yet they installed everything on a 100+ We do plan on having an upgraded box installed, and breakers redone.
If he could also describe which wire was “fixed” that may help too. I’m just assuming it was a service conductor.
Code requires bathroom receptacles to be on a circuit dedicated only to bathroom receptacles. So yea, that’s a violation. Also voltage and current are two different things, so your second statement actually may or may not be an issue.
Yeah I’m not 100% sure on it. I know our box is maxed, and lots of things are doubled up. It’s definitely not to code. we had an electrician out when our power was pulled out, and asked about upgrading/getting an additional box, and he mentioned we have enough power, but for some reason we had the smaller box. old house, my wife bought prior to me, so everything is 2nd hand info lol
While we're tangenting, one of the two local power companies has been out of 400 Amp meter bases for over a year, with no restock date. People are buying them on Ebay for several thousand dollars for new builds. Crazy as hell. Smaller houses don't need 400A, but I don't know what people with large homes and/or garages, outbuildings, shops are going to do.
Guys, he said the power company came out, not an electrician he hired. It's on the wire running power to his meter box, I'm guessing, not in his house
6 days ago I met people who had an issue with the line. House started burning after the lights flickered, lost anything plugged in at the time. Line was replaced. A week later half their house burnt down because they fucked up the replacement. Lost any new electronic as a result. Also through a few other items I’ve heard and experienced, you will not win against the power supplier in a fight. I have not experienced it personally but I know at least 2 dozen people trying to go ham on them right now. Some shady shit.