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Re: Home Electrical Wiring, Experts Advice Please
I'm pretty comfortable with doing the work myself. The wires were screwed to the posts, but they used the crimp on connectors with the 16AWG wire. Yea, we had some trouble about 2 months ago with an outlet dying outside that was connected to the GFCI in my mother's bathroom, and we have a wire hanging out of a box in our attic that was never wired. I agree with the electrical plugs as unsafe. I have had a few encounters with those ugly copper beasts when plugging stuff in and my fingers sliding into the prongs. I would say that the wires aren't overloaded (except for the 16AWG stuff) since the breaker never tripped. Overall, I'd say the wiring in our house was done pretty trashy (we have two rooms on the same circuit breaker). My dad is the hard headed type that thinks "Well I'm older, which definitely means I'm smarter than my 18 year old son, so I want to put a new small wire into the outlet." I'll show him what you said, and hopefully can get him to change his mind. I'm really glad to see "Fire Proof" on the inside of the box, because it would have been a fire if it did not say that.
Oh, I have another reason I don't think this happened today. The GFCI outlet had developed rust on the top (where the extreme heat escaped). I know rust takes a while to develop, and this is why I think this was a long term problem.
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