What the heck is normal? My spouse of almost 5 decades has been working tirelessly, putting items back where they were, or now, were they will be. Not everything goes where it was, and I am having trouble finding things. I have a few photos of some of the new cabinets. Click to enlarge. In the first photo, we see cabinets where the old oven was located.
The upper cabinet goes all the way to the ceiling for a little extra storage. The back splash looks like bricks. The second photo shows more cabinets, the kitchen sink along with the dish washer. Notice these cabinets do not go to the ceiling, allowing my present spouse to place some of her displayable items up there. Do you see the “New ceiling fan”? Yes, I was able to find a way to safely install this fan, without my ole body having to crawl around in the 2 foot of insulation that is up in the attic. The third photo shows the area where the stove has now been installed. We do have a coffee maker on the cabinet and that is my old coffee cup sitting there. The towel hanging on the new stove is my dish drying towel, yes I am a dish washer.
Different subject; my present spouse and I went to the restaurant with cracker in its name, Sunday for brunch. As we entered the doors I looked up at the TV screen that had a video of me. I walked over to the young lady (girl) who was taking everyone’s names and I said, “I have a complaint”. She looked me in the eye and asked with a smile, “What is your complaint”? I stated, “The camera makes me look fatter that I really am”! This young lady, still with a smile on her face looked at me and said, “No it don’t”. We all had a good laugh.
Different subject; over the weekend I installed a couple switches and Ground Fault receptacles, to more or less finish the bath room work. I found a couple interesting things. A switch and a receptacle were not screwed into their box. Whether you know anything about wiring outlets and switches or not, you should know that there are two screw holes that are there to hold the switch or outlet in place. For some reason they just pushed the outlet and receptacle into the box but did not install the screws. When you buy an outlet or switch the screws are already in each item. Someone took the screws out and then pushed the outlet and switch into the box. DUMB!
You can see one of the new ground fault receptacles installed in the wall near the mirror. There was another odd thing I found, one of the outlets had two sets of wires going into the outlet. Normally when you see this, the outlet is just acting as a method of passing the electric on to another switch or outlet. NOPE, not this one. For some reason both sets of wires (each having a hot, neutral and ground) were hot! Both set of wires were on the same breaker, so we didn’t have 220 volts. I have no idea what they were thinking when they installed this wiring.
Hope your day is full of happiness and friends!
Senior electrician and problem solver; Don Ford
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