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I'm not quite seeing the layout you describe. But as bigb56 states the receptacle must be in a box with a wall plate and if Romex is not within a wall but on a wall/baseboard it may then be considered "subject to physical damage". Meaning it is possible that the exposed Romex may be damaged...

Glad you got the books before hand. Plug-on neutral breakers are good. Especially in larger panels that have many GFCI and AFCI breakers as you end up with less wires (the darn curly ones) that take up more space in the panel and one more connection you have to check. As long as your panel is...

Use of a tool like the one you show by an electrician probably would not fly; well at least in my case before I retired. When working every day on installations etc you tend to find just a very few hand tools that you need to do wiring. You also learn how to use those "few" tools a bit more than...

Other very good reference books to learn electrical theory and understanding how residential electrical works and methods of wiring for receptacles, lights, breaker panels etc are Black and Decker Complete Wiring. Just a sample of one of their books. NOTE: These books work with the NEC (National...

Pigtailing each receptacle is my "way-to-go". It takes longer to wire each receptacle but easier to find an issue with a faulty receptacle in the future. Especially when it comes to rental properties. Wiring each receptacle with pigtails: if a receptacle fails the receptacles downstream continue...

If it does trip again what I would do to narrow down the reasons for a trip is to remove the "reading light" for a few days and see if it trips again. Sometimes inexpensive devices such as these "reading lights", night lights etc do tend to trip GFCIs. I had a call once. Home owner had 3...

Yikes, I almost replied to this 15 month old thread. :cool: I wonder why the OP never came back or there were no replies to the thread. House must be built by now.

Post is over a year old.

Heads up. This thread is almost two years old and the OP has not been back since March 2024

@NorthTexas Only thing I see is that you have your switches marked incorrectly. Your porch switch goes to the Eve and vise versa but it should still work properly. Also should be a splice wire nut for the neutral in the jbox but that is just a correction to the diagram; should still function...

Geochurchi: yup, the one picture I can now see that it is a plastic box. Self-grounding receptacle won't work in that box or any plastic box. Ronjeremy: just be sure all ground wires are wire nutted together in each of the boxes in the circuit and a jumper ground wire (short wire) runs from...

Confused a bit I am. If your neighbor is remodeling the room and the room is being rewired then why not just wire it properly? There are several ways to wire for a 3 way setup. Is it that your neighbor has it in his mind he will only do it his way? Is that the problem?

True but it won't work if the circuit itself is not grounded. From just the small portion of the receptacle that you show that is not showing as grounded I see at the bottom that the receptacle seems to be self grounding receptacle. If this is the case then adding a ground wire from the wire...

Thanks for your honesty in reference to your experience level. Yes, a degree in electrical engineering does not qualify one to do home electrical work and I am glad that you see that where as many times persons with a degree such as your automatically assume it qualifies them and then they argue...

Before we go any further since you are new to the forum; Welcome We don't know your electrical skills knowledge yet since you are new so excuse what might be a very simple question. Are you aware of the fact that there is a 90% chance that since you want to make a light into a receptacle that...

NooBis The wiring diagram that bigb56 gave you is very helpful. Just be sure you watch carefully for your "common" screws on the two 3 way switches. One common has the power coming in to it and the other common will go out to the load (which in this case is the receptacle part that is switched)...

If the pump is 240volts then there should only be two hots and a ground (3 wires) coming out from it. If a device/appliance is 120v/240v then there would be two hots, neutral and ground (4 wires). Can you please take a picture of the nameplate on the pump and post it here so we can see the...

This is very true. Many POCOs have a list of approved equipment that can only be used. You can't just go an buy anything you want. They do have the right to not connect your service if you do not use approved equipment. Even if it is inspected and passes inspection the POCO can still refuse...

If this is a rental (you do not own this unit) you should not be doing anything to the electrical system. Call your landlord to deal with the issue. The electrical system of an apartment that you rent does not give you the right to work on the landlord's electrical system. The only thing you can...

If the PR receptacle goes out and comes back by itself and you do not have to reset a GFCI elsewhere on the circuit or reset a circuit breaker to this circuit you are looking at a bad connection. The bad connection is not necessarily at that receptacle either. What I would do is to shut off all...