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Licensed Master Electrician (29 years) 6165B Contractor in Closter New Jersey with 38 years total experience in Residential - Commercial - Industrial work. Emergency Service - General trouble shooting and repair work - Paddle fans - Kitchen & Bath exhaust fans - AC lines - Smoke detectors - Telephone lines - Cable TV lines - Computer network cabling - Exterior lighting - Recessed lighting - Security lighting - (200 - 150 - 100 amp service up grades) - Electric Heat - New circuits - New appliance hook ups - Back up generators - and more ! FREE ESTIMATES 201-358-1552 www.pascackvalleyelectric.com
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"The Frank Williams School of Electrical Construction". My dear old boss is 96 and still going God Bless him. I started working for "Tenafly Electric" right out of high school at 19. He was tough but I learned more working for him in 8 and half years than most guys. We did mostly industrial work while doing some commercial and residential so I was fortunate to be exposed to all 3 areas of electrical construction. The guys I worked with were all good guys and I stay in touch with some of them still. Most of us went into our own buisness's which says something about the caliber of the guys I worked with. We had some interesting clients : Wella Corp. of shampoo fame, Farah Fawcett etc, I didn't buy shampoo for 10 years, it was a great place to work. Pan Am the X airline just before they went under, another great place to work, nice clean environment. C&C Metals, the largest button manufacturer in the US, a not so clean environment but a very interesting place to work, lots of machine's cranking out buttons of all kinds but you had to be on your toes, it was a potentially dangerous place to be . All kinds of action going on around you.
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Expert: PASCACK VALLEY ELECTRIC Bob Mossman - 11/9/2009
Question
what is best to use in a house 12-2 or 14-2 wiring wanting to upgrade our house and make sense of all the confusion of the last person to wire this old house as there are six breakers that are used throughout the hole thing and three of them run the major appliances or i think! HELP PLEASE?
Answer
Thomas,
Follow this simple rule: Use 12-2 for receptacle's and 14-2 for lighting and never mix the two. In other words don't use 12-2 for lighting and don't use 14-2 for receptacles. So as you rewire you will know that the yellow cables are for receptacles and the white cables are for lighting. 14-2 is easier to work with when terminating switches for lighting especially if your a home owner and not a pro. 12-2 give's you more circuit capacity for receptacles VS 14-2 especially when you never know what you may be plugging in.
The best place's to start running new circuits to ease up on the old ones is your washer and dryer, air conditioners and kitchen counter circuits. Hit these first and you'll do your existing wiring a big favor.
Bob
Bob
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