Now this may only be a 1200 sq foot home, but i think it has enough electrical plugs, switch, and lights for a 4 floor hospital! Luckily it’s super easy to install new duplex outlets, so there it begins.
I managed to race through the standard duplex outlet plugs installing all 35 in less than a day. It basically entailed stripping half and inch off of each of the wires, bending them into a slight loop, pulling the loop over the screw on the outlet, tightening the screw and attaching to the wall…with more screws! Piece of cake! Then it was onto the GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters). These are the fancy ones that trip at the switch when they are overloaded. In 2010 these were required anywhere with “water”, so the bathroom and kitchen counters all required these special plugs. The special plugs were very special in price (1500% more than standard plugs), but extremely easy to install as they had the screws to attach the wires to like the standard outlets, but you can also wire them by inserting the stripped wire into the back of the outlet and setting the screw. No need to try to keep the little buggar in place and following orders. As there were three in the bathroom and four in the kitchen this rounded out a morning while waiting for my latest building inspection, sign off for power!!!
From the plugs i moved onto the switches. I found some fantastic push button switches with an inlay of mother of pearl at Rejuvenation (where all my gorgeous lights are coming from). Very similar to what the house would have had when it was built in 1920 they were also a critical style detail for me. They sell all of the basic “types” of switches in picture below right to left.:
- Single Pole – These are singularly responsible for turning things on and off and have a single mother of pearl inlay on a button
- 3-Way – These share the responsibility with another switch somewhere else to turn on/off the light(s), these have mother of peal inlays in the top and bottom buttons as both are live
- Dimmer – These come in both single pole and 3-way versions, unique here these have a “button” for the top portion of the switch and a turn knob in the bottom to control the brightness of the light, there are even different wattages 300 or 600!
I have most of the switches in, but a few will have to wait until my final inspection as there are building codes about what kinds of switches you need in laundry rooms and bathrooms, which is lame. Oh well, lame doesn’t mean i don’t h ave to do it…so off to find occupancy light switches i go! Here are a few receptacles attachment pictures.
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Head spinning.
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