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oliviabennett•2mo ago

Went back to an old house I wired in 2019 and the difference was night and day

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angelacooper•2mo ago

Got called out on my ground rod connections by an old inspector in Denver

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lucas63•2mo ago

Why does nobody talk about using a meter to find the hot leg on old cloth wire

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lisa_brown•2mo ago

Upgraded a panel in a 1960s house and found knob and tube hiding behind drywall

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emeryr38•2mo ago

Dropped $300 on a thermal imaging camera for troubleshooting, worth every penny

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wade438•2mo ago

Forgot to turn off the main before swapping a panel in an old house last Tuesday

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the_kim•2mo ago

12 hours into a panel swap before I found the neutral cheat

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dakota787•2mo ago

Why nobody talks about how easy it is to reverse polarity on a simple outlet swap

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wilson.jesse•2mo ago

That whole 'torque it until it strips, then back off a quarter turn' joke actually saved me today

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avery_roberts67•2mo ago

TIL running a jumper wire between smoke detectors saves hours of tracing

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leeknight•2mo ago

Just found out most wire nuts aren't meant for outdoor use

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theaw65•2mo ago

PSA: That old schoolhouse in rural Ohio taught me a hard lesson about knob and tube

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ivanb41•2mo ago

Spent 5 hours chasing a ground fault that turned out to be a loose neutral in a J box

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troy977•2mo ago

Had an old foreman tell me to stop using my impact driver on outlet screws

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janaf76•2mo ago

The pipe bender trick that saved me 2 hours on a 4-floor office job downtown

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