Electrical
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This area beside the furnace duct provided a handy place for running all the cables. Note that this picture was taken before everything was properly spaced and fastened. |
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Three, 20amp, circuits feed the wet-bar. One for the microwave, one for the outlets, and one for the refrigerator. |
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Remember the rule-of-thumb for calculating the number of lights in a room. Allow 3 watts per square foot. All the lights are on their own 20amp circuit. Ron likes to do it this way, rather than mix outlets and lights on the same circuit. Guess too many times he's plugged something in, blew the breaker, and sat in the dark. |
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The major effort in doing the electrical was in figuring out
where all the accessory outlets went. Since this was a game room there were
neon lights, an electronic dart board, a traffic light, juke box, pinball
machine, digital sign, etc. All of these needed nearby power that was on a
separate switch.
There are two 20amp circuits for the outlets. One drives the always-on outlets, the other the switched outlets. |
You would think there would be more pictures of the electrical work. The reason there aren't more is that Val was in Indiana the couple weeks that Ron did the wiring and he was too busy to take pictures. Oh, well.
Actually, the electrical work was uneventful - except for one thing...
When Ron was doing the plumbing he accidentally pulled down some ceiling insulation and out fell a coiled up mass of electrical wire. One end went up into the floor under the kitchen, the other end was bare. A quick touch of the thumb proved that it was HOT!
The hypothesis is that this wire was supposed to go from the power source at the fridge, down, across, and back up to the kitchen island. Strangely, the island doesn't have an outlet. Now we know why.
For some reason, during construction, maybe while the electrician and insulating guys were on-site at the same time, someone coiled up the wire to get it out of the way. It then got pushed up into the insulation never to be thought of again.
And they wonder why houses burn down due to "electrical problems"!