Is there anyone on my local f’list who’s much good with electricity? I started in to replace a dying fluorescent light fixture in the kitchen, but found that the cable in the junction box was seventy-year-old BC with rotting cable and braid which had hideous lengths of exposed wiring in there. (It’s a mercy I haven’t yet burned down the place, I suppose.) As it is, two-thirds of the house is without power tonight, ’cos the entire south side is on the same breaker.
I got into the attic this evening and spliced in some Romex pigtails to lead into the junction box, but I don’t understand where all the cables go and what they do, and I’m going to have to understand them before I start in with the gaffer’s tape. And while I’m able to do things like replace a light switch or a wall outlet, this is kinda like Major Surgery on the house’s electrical system, and I’d admire to have help, or at least advice, tomorrow from someone who knows a bit more than I do about wiring, so we can have lights in the house again.
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