Please, PLEASE take this advice: If you are not 100% familiar with the NEC and residential wiring practices, hire a licensed electrician! Wiring is NOT a HOBBY!! As a licensed home inspector and electrical inspector I have seen hundreds of homes wired with dangerous handy-man wiring, and several instances of past electrical fires! It only takes one mistake and one set of circumstances to cause terrible loss or even death! Clueless, I strongly advise you to invest the $125 or so for a professional to add your extra desired circuit. Gs, no offense, but your description of wiring practices and electrical to me wreaks of handy-man caliber knowledge. You should be careful to whom you give residential electrical installation guidelines to!
OT home wiring
I know that are a lots of electrical types out there so a quick OT question.
Stopped by a friend's cottage and she asked me if I would add a circuit in her garage so she can have a freezer etc..
It's a really old cottage. The mains are not the basic lay out. The neutral and ground buses are on top of each other and what I found strange is that all of the ground and neutral returns for a given circuit go to the same bus. That is the neutral and ground is wrapped and returned to one bus or the other. No rhyme or reason as far as I can tell. She thinks I'm an electrical genius because she listens to an old pair of two-way speakers I made years ago(hehe). I don't want to break the spell. What's up? What do I do now?
(yaya, I know-call an electrician)
TIA
I remain,
Stopped by a friend's cottage and she asked me if I would add a circuit in her garage so she can have a freezer etc..
It's a really old cottage. The mains are not the basic lay out. The neutral and ground buses are on top of each other and what I found strange is that all of the ground and neutral returns for a given circuit go to the same bus. That is the neutral and ground is wrapped and returned to one bus or the other. No rhyme or reason as far as I can tell. She thinks I'm an electrical genius because she listens to an old pair of two-way speakers I made years ago(hehe). I don't want to break the spell. What's up? What do I do now?
(yaya, I know-call an electrician)
TIA
I remain,