Home Improvement
I'm leaning the science behind home electricity. I want to install an outlet in my bathroom for a bidet but I realized I didn't understand when and where I needed a GFI outlet. So I'm learning via a handful of books
Similarly, I want to add another outlet in the basement for my cats' automatic litter box.
I also just replaced my Nest doorbell with a "dumb" doorbell but the chime won't work. So I need to do some research on how the chimes work...
The bidet outlet just needs to be on the load side of the GFI.
That statement presumes knowledge of GFI that I did not have - load side means nothing to a layperson
On the back of the GFI the ports will be labeled, line or load. Line goes to the breaker box, load goes to all outlets you need protected.
Load side here essentially means end of the chain. So Breaker ---- anything else ----- GFI - Bidet ----nothing else.
When you put a GFI receptical on a line there are two ways, either in series or parallel, if you do it in series then everything down stream of that outlet is protected by GFI. One thing you dont want to happen is two GFI on the same line, so if you have GFI breakers in your box dont add a GFI outlet on one.
Good luck, its easy enough to install because its the same as really any outlet, you just need to know where it is in the chain.
I don’t have a house. Wife and I lived in a car for almost 4 months, now we have an RV.
Currently sorting rocks by size to make gravel for foundations. Need to setup some foundation blocks for shipping containers, foundation for a huge water tank, then the foundation for our house will be gravel in large sandbags (Hyperadobe) and hopefully we can make enough gravel for the driveway too.
I'm still stuck on the first step. Acquire a home
Had to pay taxes instead of the contractor. Now I’m just trying not to go bankrupt.
Not a home improvement per se this week. Last week had to reso front walkway. Yesterday Inhad to get on roof to seal some metal screws to stop two leaks. Crazy wind worked them loose. Will do a permanent fix later.
Too lazy to turn on my irrigation system. I drained it 2 weeks ago in preparation for the deep freeze last week. Homes in my state aren't built for freezing weather so we have to drain our irrigation lines and drip faucets anytime it gets below freezing.