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azurelunatic) wrote2022-06-13 12:34 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2022-06-13 12:34 pm
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NOPE
We went up fucknorth yesterday to help with the house. The handyman was there when we arrived, doing the main bedroom walk-in closet door & frame. Ev was contemplating outlets and had tested some of the breakers to see what part of the house it switched off. She had a tidy grid in her notebook.
She had done a GFCI outlet before we arrived. It was beyond my ken, but Belovedest stepped in and troubleshot. They walked her through it, and through another, and we were feeling pretty good.
Then: The Kitchen Light Switch.
First was the pen-shaped current detector, shining a cheerful red and beeping. Huh. That breaker did not control it. It was supposed to control the kitchen?
Belovedest stationed me in the kitchen with the pen, and hollered from the garage as they flipped breakers. Nothin'. Nothin'. Merry fuckin' nothing.
Unless there is a hidden breaker in there, the only breaker that controls this fucking light is the MAIN BREAKER, WHAT THE FUCK.
Belovedest opened up the switch, swore, summoned me to take pictures, and closed it up again. The colors didn't make sense to them, there were more wires than they were expecting, the ground wire was present but not connected to the switch, there was a wire coming out of the back of the switch in a way that looked integral... NOPE.
The cluster of 3 switches in the dining room was also chaotic.
CALL THELOCKSMITH ELECTRICIAN!
Ev finished up doing another outlet by herself, we shuffled some stuff around (the portable AC is now in the garage, ready to deploy as needed) and went for a quick hardware store scope-out and then dinner. Yay.
She had done a GFCI outlet before we arrived. It was beyond my ken, but Belovedest stepped in and troubleshot. They walked her through it, and through another, and we were feeling pretty good.
Then: The Kitchen Light Switch.
First was the pen-shaped current detector, shining a cheerful red and beeping. Huh. That breaker did not control it. It was supposed to control the kitchen?
Belovedest stationed me in the kitchen with the pen, and hollered from the garage as they flipped breakers. Nothin'. Nothin'. Merry fuckin' nothing.
Unless there is a hidden breaker in there, the only breaker that controls this fucking light is the MAIN BREAKER, WHAT THE FUCK.
Belovedest opened up the switch, swore, summoned me to take pictures, and closed it up again. The colors didn't make sense to them, there were more wires than they were expecting, the ground wire was present but not connected to the switch, there was a wire coming out of the back of the switch in a way that looked integral... NOPE.
The cluster of 3 switches in the dining room was also chaotic.
CALL THE
Ev finished up doing another outlet by herself, we shuffled some stuff around (the portable AC is now in the garage, ready to deploy as needed) and went for a quick hardware store scope-out and then dinner. Yay.
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