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Notching Exterior wall floor joist and plates between two floors for electrical
I'm trying to reuse an existing fuse box location and run conduit for new service through the wall and out the roof. I heard from the city this morning saying was OK to notch the plates as long as I put in the appropriate metal strapping across the notch. They also said that the conduit must be 2". I need to do this on the top floors top plate to get through the roof, then I'd need to do it through that floor's bottom plate, then through a 2x8 choice floor joist and then the top plate of the bottom floor. I have access to the bottom floor, walls and ceiling and inside the floor joist bay. The thought was, I could reinforce it with a sister 2x8 but those are smaller now than the 2x8 from 1940 that's actually 2" thick and 7.5" tall. Something like this. Image: https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/1419x992/image1_a413e927ade511926573ed89668f64d3679d0034.jpg
I've seen a lot of posts about replacing a light with a ceiling fan, but having an issue finding a post going in the other direction. I finally replaced a ceiling fan (with no lights) with an LED light fixture. I flipped the switch on the wall off and then wired it in (no I didn't go find a breaker). Much to my surprise, as soon as I touched the second wires together, it lit up and did a pretty good job of blinding me. There are 3 wires on the fixture, black white and green. I only have two wires in the ceiling, black and brown. This house was built in the fifties and this is one of two rooms in the house where the light switch has to be on for the wall outlets to work. I did not connect the green ground wire to anything as it didn't seem to be needed. I did test holding it to one of the anchor screws in the ceiling to see if that would do anything with the switch off but it did not. I did find one post that said you could flip the wires (black (c) to white (f) and brown (c) to black (f)) but I don't see how that would change anything. I'm wondering if these wires are just always hot as the previous installer decided the fan could just always be powered as the pull cord would actually turn it on and off and I now need to figure out how and where to wire in a switch. Thanks for reading!
Bathroom studs
I am overhauling bathroom- we gutted the bathtub side- waterproofed and installed new tub- tile etc-Now it's on to phase two. Behind the vanity when removing old sheet rock- the studs are rotated 90 degrees- The sheet rock was screwed to the larger side (3.5") side of the stud- Can someone explain why this was done? i wanted to install a medicine cabinet in the wall but wasn't sure if i can. I see the 4" pipe in that wall for drain and toilet but wondering why it was framed this way
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Power Recliner Sofa Problem
I have a power recliner sofa where . . . On the right side the power controls work fine. On the left side, . . . - to fully recline I must click the recline button repeatedly. I cannot simply hold down that button until fully reaching the reclined position. - to fully retract to the unreclined position, I can hold down the retract button to get it to completely retract (no need to click the button repeatedly as I had to for the recline button) Based on the symptoms, would you suggest that the source of the problem is the switch? Thanks for any help you can give.
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Have a chainsaw with a cracked neck on the chainsaw oil cap - is this thing garbage or does someone have any ideas on how to repair?Image: https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x1504/img_4023_4ac3f82dfe8d485796b9a782f0da3dabcd7c5f02.jpeg