22 September 2008

Interruptors


That's Single Pole Switches to you and me and Lowes. Gang of three, no less. While this may be no project of note for some DIYers, playing with electricity in a 50-year-old house brought pause. About 1974 my parents decided to enclose the carport to create a family room (we call it "the den".) In turn, the addition created a bathroom with no exterior window. Installed as a fix for steamy showers was an overhead exhaust fan. The switch for the fan was once installed in the gaping hole in picture one. That misalignment of infrastructure always made me crazy, so I moved the switch down in line with the existing two. Anyhoo, everything works, and it's been three days now and nothing is warm to the touch.

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