Backwards house
Katie
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Comments (1)I love that idea!...See Morewiring backwards in basement, fix it???
Comments (12)I'm with bus_driver on this one, although I'm going to say something he didn't and he may not agree with. Living in rural Maine and working on a good number of 150+ year old houses up here, many with knob&tube wiring that all looks the same, three-prong outlets that aren't really grounded to anything (well, sometimes each other...), devices that come out of the wall, box-and-all, on a whim, etc., I would say that "all of the wires are the wrong color" is probably one of the least, most relatively-meaningless errors. If neutral is neutral all the way through, same with ground, then it's neither a fire hazard nor a shock hazard to the end user. Electricity itself doesn't care what color the wire insulation happens to be. As far as people who might work on it in the future... when someone opens up an outlet and finds a white wire on a hot screw, yet the outlet tests as wired correctly, the smart ones will know what's going on, while the stupid ones #1 shouldn't be in there, and #2 probably don't know, confidently, the correct color code anyway. I, personally, would fix it if a time came that I had to work on that circuit anyway. I wouldn't make a priority out of it. I suppose, with my OCD, sooner or later seeing that one black wire on the neutral bar would eventually irritate me enough that I'd have to do something....See MoreBackwards remodeling
Comments (1)You were very lucky that this all worked out for you....See MoreBackward shower valve?
Comments (6)Yes, I was just thinking about that as a possibility. The bathroom is over the garage, and I can probably trace the pipes to see which lines they come from as it has a suspended ceiling. (another project, sheetrocking the ceiling, sigh). The bathroom tile was done at least 15 years ago, possibly longer so the fixture has been there for a while. Someone may have messed with the plumbing in the garage. Weird....See MoreBrown Dog
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