Steel
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2/12/2008 at 03:48 |
Some pics of my new basement office as it takes shape.
That insulation you see to go in the walls and ceiling is sound proof for maximum fap noisiness!
Oh sure you may not be able to tell now, but that's a perfect bookshelf built into the ceiling, boxing in the pipes!
My dad wanted me to buy a $120 door knob with an electronic numeric keypad which slid a big dead bolt open and closed LOL
With the vents open it was getting so hot in the basement I had to plug them... safe? probably not... hope books don't combust with hot air running over them in the vent.
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middle_age_man
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2/12/2008 at 04:35 |
I'm not sure about the building codes on your area but you might want to look at how you have your walls framed before you start boarding. It looks like you have the top plate butted against the floor joists. Basement walls should be framed in a floating manner, normally a 3/4" to 1.5" space. This prevents movement being transferred from the slab to the upper floors. There's a few methods for doing this, I find driving a spike into the joist through a pre-drilled hole in the top plate the simplest.
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Steel
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2/12/2008 at 14:15 |
Good point, though our house is already an incredibly warped unit, it couldn't get worse and we are a middle unit as well so are affected by everything... You are right though our walls are connected to the floor joists... |
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Steel
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2/18/2008 at 17:33 |
Today I provide a little update. We've been putting up a little insulation, a little drywall on the ceiling and attempting a little rewiring.
Here's the insulation I'm using.
The front entry.
Far ceiling starting to take shape.
Anyways we ran into a little wiring mistake. I've already talked to LBP and Cube about it and thought I would throw the info up here so that they could ridicule me and perhaps you guys will get a kick out of my woes 
The problem: Due to a wiring mistake I can no longer turn on the power to the basement. When I flip the breaker to the on position the power flickers and the breaker shuts itself off.
The back story: When planning how we would install the wiring for one section of the pot lights we found that there was a power outlet not being used that was attached to a junction box in the ceiling ( I wish I had picutres from before).
Anyways, we had shut the power off to the basement, opened the junction box and removed the wires for the unused outlet, then put the morrets back on. At this point we turned the power back on and everything worked fine.
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This is going to be tough to explain but here is how the wires looked at this point.
- 2 Wires coming into the junction box (each wire has white and black inside)
- 2 Wires leaving the junction box (again each wire with one black and one white)
So exposed wires inside the box, 4 black and 4 white.
At this point the working configuration went like this:
3 Black and 1 White connected together.
3 White Connected together.
1 Black Alone.
Trying to think back, I assume that the unused outlet had its White wire connected to the other 3 Whites and it's Black connected to the Single Black.
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A few days later we had decided to hookup the new wire for the pot lights. My dad unhooked the wires to reconnect them nicer and then forgot the way they were originally hooked up. (Big mistake!)
Right now we tried the following, connected all Blacks and All Whites (including the new pot light wire.)
This is the current config.
I know this is a mistake, but now we aren't sure how to take all the wire apart and put them together.
Looking at the breaker panel its interesting that there is only one blown breaker, yet there are two wires coming into the junction box we were messing with.
I will also note there is one plug in my living room that I know isn't working right now. The breaker right beside the basement breaker is for the living room, but that one is working fine and most outlets in living room are working.
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LORDKAHUNA
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2/18/2008 at 17:55 |
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nurgleming
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2/18/2008 at 19:02 |
i like your work tho
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2/18/2008 at 19:19 |
Steel's offici(al) Rape Den(t).
Keep us posted.
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Steel
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2/18/2008 at 20:59 |
OK thread update:
I disconnected all the wiring in that panel. I removed the new pot light wire to get that out of the equation.
Now instead of having all 4 blacks and all 4 whites together, I have connected each major wire straight through.
I am now able to turn the power on without the breaker blowing so that is a good sign, however, one outlet and the downstairs bathroomlight has no power.
So I'm starting to think that maybe there is only one power cable coming into the box and it does need to be connected in some funky manner to get everything working...
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LOki
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2/18/2008 at 22:24 |
I don't know what your building codes are like either, but make sure you have plenty of marshmellows.
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HOBO
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2/18/2008 at 22:31 |
I love your aluminum wire! Do I smell something burning?
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