New things every day.
So yesterday I finally got the courage to unscrew the fuses! Or rather, I got the power guy who was looking into burying our power lines unscrew the first one for me, then I did the rest of them. For some reason I was afraid that unscrewing them would electrocute me.
The most amazing discovery was that even after all the fuses were pulled, the bathroom outlets continue to have power! I'm not sure exactly how this is, since pulling the main fuse was supposed to disable all the outlets and lights. The electrician is coming today; maybe he'll be able to explain it to me.
Maybe he'll also disconnect the wiring on my garbage disposal. It's wired to an on/off switch on the cabinets, which means I can't finish disassembling the cabinets until it's taken off.
I also learned my first lesson in how having the right tools make things a lot easier. After turning the water line coming into my house off and then back on using two small wrenches and struggling with it for about 5 minutes each time, I finally got a nice big wrench, which shortened the time to turn it off to about 15 seconds.
The most amazing discovery was that even after all the fuses were pulled, the bathroom outlets continue to have power! I'm not sure exactly how this is, since pulling the main fuse was supposed to disable all the outlets and lights. The electrician is coming today; maybe he'll be able to explain it to me.
Maybe he'll also disconnect the wiring on my garbage disposal. It's wired to an on/off switch on the cabinets, which means I can't finish disassembling the cabinets until it's taken off.
I also learned my first lesson in how having the right tools make things a lot easier. After turning the water line coming into my house off and then back on using two small wrenches and struggling with it for about 5 minutes each time, I finally got a nice big wrench, which shortened the time to turn it off to about 15 seconds.
posted by Molly at 6:42 AM
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