Category Archives: Electrical

Hey Oncor…WTH?

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Daniel Meyer

Whilst working on one of the towers…my friend Mike happened to look up at one of the nearby electric poles. He snapped this pic. Hey Oncor…just what the heck have you got going on here? CUAgain, Daniel Meyer

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Am I through with Home Depot?

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

I hope y’all (technical Texas term) had a great Thanksgiving. We did. We spent Wednesday stuffing family full of food! Friday…well…we spent Friday lazy-ing about the house, basically recovering from Thursday. Well, that and eating leftover turkey and ham sandwiches … Continue reading →

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Why they fall down *slowly*…

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Yet more electrical work. Not much to show…as in “interesting pictures”. Basically I’ve been crawling through attics trailing yellow wire all behind me like some sort of giant mutant spider. *shudder* On second thought…strike that mental image…I do NOT want … Continue reading →

Posted in Carpentry/Structure, Electrical, Miscellaneous | 2 Comments

More Wiring…

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Y’all might recall this post a few days ago about an attic hatch and some lights in the sunroom. The mentioned LIGHTS in the Sunroom from the previous post. Well, with my new found attic hatch-e-ness I got more wiring … Continue reading →

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*blinks* By the gods! We can see!

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

The attic over the sunroom and utility room had a very small opening, rudely hacked into the beadboard ceiling. It was so narrow I couldn’t even get my shoulders through it without contortions…much less the rest of my rather rotund … Continue reading →

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Nothing but net…

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Working on a halloween decoration…putting it together in this picture…it will be outside hanging on the edge of the porch.. To give a little size perspective…that is the “round room”…our entry parlor…the room is something like 24 feet in diameter…that’s … Continue reading →

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My very favorite splice…part deux.

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Y’all might recall my very favorite splice (story at this link). Here’s a picture of the offending electrical monster: Well, I’d like to introduce you to my second favorite splice…or perhaps it is actually My Very Favorite Splice, Part Deux, … Continue reading →

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Hey! No injuries this weekend!

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

I sure am going to have strong arms when I finish scraping the Sunroom ceiling though! Got the wiring in (mostly), and the cans in…and the ceiling repaired…now I just need to scrape every surface in the entire room, prime … Continue reading →

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Headlines: Car thinks it’s a truck. Door vanishes. Rain Falls. Yard Grows.

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

Interesting weekend! Between 6 and 8 inches of rain fell in 24 hours…Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. This is, of course, because I really, desperately, needed to mow the grass. I even had the mower key with me this time! … Continue reading →

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Dining Room Electric

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Daniel Meyer

I finally got sick of the dangerous, yet…heh heh…historically significant wiring in the dining room (which we’re using as a bedroom at the moment). Note, there’s nothing inherently unsafe about knob and tube wiring…it’s just that when it was put … Continue reading →

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