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The original builders of those houses did one craptastic job of siting the houses for proper drainage. Reminds me of my own place :) Anyway, digging a drainage swale will work fine as long as you...

I looked over your problem and I'm fairly sure it has nothing to do with grounding. Its likely that the poor quality power produced by the generator is unacceptable to the control board in the...

This could end up as an expensive lesson for you; Never allow someone to perform work without a written contract that includes a not to exceed without written permission clause. Now that you are in...

I work with mostly fiberglass boxes. The easiest thing to do is bash the fiberglass box apart and pull the remaining nails. If your dealing with plastic big box store quality boxes its easier to...

First, if you are building this house in NY and you are planning on electric heat as your primary heat source you are insane! Your winter electric bill will likely be 6X whatever your summer...

What you have there is a mess, but you already know that. This is the type of job that if you farm it out to an electrician you will pay a fortune b/c it is a very labor intensive job, but if you...

Yes each of the 3 conductors is out of phase by 120 degrees. Added together you get 360 degrees which is one rotation of the source generator. It is a single power source producing power on 3...

Its not the backwash time you want to minimize, just the rinse time. I use 2 minutes as the rinse time as this is the shortest time interval I can select and still have a rinse cycle with my control...

Hi,

Your iron is no worse than mine and I have clear water. My setup is also very similar to yours. You are missing a critical component though, you need to insert a 100 gallon retention tank...

Something in your house is failing. Nothing draws that mush power for a few seconds and then drops out again under normal operating conditions except maybe the stove. I have my money on an electric...

I'm not familiar with the system you speak of, however if the switching is all low voltage your options are very limited if you do not want to run new wiring. Ceiling fan remotes usually include a...

Why do you want a subpanel? 1.3x3 = 3.9A which is not nearly enough to need to worry about a subpanel. If all we are talking about here is the three waterers save the $ you would spend on a...

If your house has a 2x4 stick built roof the lumber is way undersized. As a rule stick built roofs do not have trusses, so the homes you have lived in previously must have used manufactured roof...

Heh, well I guess that shows you what I know. I'd never heard of it before now. Thanks for the link.

-rick

>>What is the typical life expectancy of a well pump? Should I be worried about this noise?

15 years seems to be about all you get on a pump these days. If you get the full 15 years be happy. ...

Look for a GFCI first, but breakers are known to fail. Where you have multiple rooms out I'm leaning toward the breaker. Don't just assume it is still working and passing current just because it...

Power HAS TO return to where it came from. The earth is a really really lousy conductor. Sticking a ground rod outside your house will not allow the power to travel through the earth to another...

As has already been pointed out, a multimeter is really not a good tool to test 120vac household circuits. Multimeters need a good ground to function properly, and if your problem is with the...

Sounds to me like its working normally and I think your just confused as to whether the GFI was on or off.

-rick

What he said.

A well casing is far superior than a ground rod for grounding. That said its not to code to use it for that purpose (go figure). Driving the ground rods may not go as badly as you think. I've...

You do not want to pay an electrician's labor rate to dig a ditch. Your electrician doesn't want to do it either and will either hire a day laborer to do it and possibly pocket the difference or...

Hmm, you have a leak somewhere. If you had a leak that big in the water heater you would have water on the floor. You still need to rule out the toilets. Don't trust that the shutoffs work. Flush...

I would find out more about the well before I bought the house. A 1GPM well could easily become a 0GPM well in a drought. This is less likely with a deep well, but I'd ask the current HO if they...

Under normal non backwash conditions water always enters the source side of the carbon filter and exits the supply side. During backwash water always enters the source side and exits the drain. BUT...