Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

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mimico_polak said:
Had some free time at lunch...

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I programmed my self to dream about your space last night.... From an interior design perspective you should not be able to see the toilet from outside the room. Having said that, in a reno, I live in the real world and I always default to where the stack is, how the joists run, and not wanting bulkheads.... so my toilets can be seen. Just a data point to consider. If I had a perfect clean slate...

Instead of the open out door this is a perfect scenario for a 30" pocket door assuming the wall to the left of the door can be opened up and is not load-bearing, pocket door, NOT a barn door.
 
timtune said:
Outlet is actually missing. It's just the three wires capped with marettes and a copper ground. Was checking the wires in order to install an outlet and I find this.
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Where is the outlet? If it is in a kitchen it was likely a split receptacle. If it is in a living room (or any room without an overhead light or otherwise fixed lights) it was likely a switched receptacle with one half always hot and one half switched. Even pretty old code required rooms without lights to have a switched receptacle.

As for the disconnected or otherwise broken neutral, that you will have to work back to find out where/what. HOPEFULLY someone in their infinite wisdom didn't put a switch on the neutral! It is a potential PITA but someone likely just left the neutral that feeds this outlet out of a pigtail upstream, hopefully it is not broken off, etc.
 
GreyGhost said:
I have a similar system made by Stihl that fits on a leaf blower. Wear a raincoat as you will be coated with goo with the blower. Your vacuum solution is much cleaner.

If you want to get fancy, mount a camera with wifi on the elbow and tape your phone to the pipe so you can see where the leaves are.
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I considered attaching my inspection camera to the top and mounting the screen at the bottom but with practice I have the technique down and there is not much need. I start at one end and I run it along the bottom on an angle as I work down the side of the house. I can feel if it is not on the bottom (mud) and repeat. Lift at every hanger. Then I do the same thing in the opposite direction.

I did set it up so it could be used in suction and blowing. I tried blowing on the prototype and it makes a mess of me and the ground. Leaves will sometimes get stuck at the end in suction mode, but they are not hard to get free.

One issue I have when it is wet and there is lots of old decayed crap (mud), the ribs in the shopvac hose get filled and the hose gets heavy. So I use the shorter hose (not my 25 foot one) as it is easier to clean.

I was going to get gutter covers, so far this is so easy that they are off the table....
 
backmarkerducati said:
Where is the outlet? If it is in a kitchen it was likely a split receptacle. If it is in a living room (or any room without an overhead light or otherwise fixed lights) it was likely a switched receptacle with one half always hot and one half switched. Even pretty old code required rooms without lights to have a switched receptacle.

As for the disconnected or otherwise broken neutral, that you will have to work back to find out where/what. HOPEFULLY someone in their infinite wisdom didn't put a switch on the neutral! It is a potential PITA but someone likely just left the neutral that feeds this outlet out of a pigtail upstream, hopefully it is not broken off, etc.
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It's in a bedroom with switched outlets but the switch has one affect on it. There is a second outlet that my checker plug says has an open neutral. I'll be looking into that today.
 
timtune said:
It's in a bedroom with switched outlets but the switch has one affect on it. There is a second outlet that my checker plug says has an open neutral. I'll be looking into that today.
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I suspect that you'll find that they used to be split plugs with half switched for lamps. Somebody tried to make them unswitched, screwed up the wiring and then gave up. Fix the wiring in the existing receptacle and it probably improves wiring in the empty box.
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