Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Finished Re-routing 220-volt power

I found the right drill bit to drill through two 2x4's together in a tight space.  The photo below shows how hard it was to get just the right angle.  The little trench you see is where the power used to be.  It's an outside weight bearing wall so I didn't want to trench the hole any further.  I opted instead to drill a new hole to route the power through.


Here is the finished product from a slightly different angle.

I have a GFCI tester.  There is a button on it that, when the tester is plugged into a GFCI outlet, will trip it.  I went through all of the existing GFCI outlets in the house and found that most of them were not working.  I even found that one, according to the light indicators on the tester, had been wired backwards.

When I make my home-depot run tomorrow I'll pick up another bulk pack of GFCI outlets, along with the faceplates for the new outlets I've wired up in the kitchen.  I understand that I should have them off when the Electrical inspector comes the first time.

Here is the other 220-volt line I re-routed.  This one isn't used because we don't have an oven under our gas range; however, the line was there so I've run its wires through the wall studs too.

Re-routing this power line was a completely different challenge when compared to the other 220-volt line for the double-ovens.  This line runs diaganoly, I didn't want to rip out the entire wall so, before pulled the electrical line, I taped some wire onto the wires at the other end of the wire.  When I pulled cable the wires I tied to it came through too

Next I re-routed the power line through the holes I drilled, then fed it back through the existing holes by tying the wire I had previously pulled through to the end of the power line, then pulled it back.  It took a while but it's finally done.






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