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CONGRATULATIONS!! You Have the Power! I enjoy how you explain as you go along. I'm the youngest daughter of a general contractor and since he didn't have a son, he spent a lot of time with me showing how stuff works. At 70+ years of age, I've been able to do my own plumbing, electrical and carpentry work, although not as much as I used to. Years ago, I installed a garbage disposal and I thank my Dad everyday for the mechanical skills he taught me.
Owning a home for almost 15 years has taught me to be more reliant on myself & some friends occasionally help when I need them. It's always nice to have information available when you start a project, especially a big one. One time I was able to fix my dryer, it was something small but I got it working & it saved me money. Congrats on getting temporary power!
My family and I moved into a hundred year old home back in 1976. With 4 kids and a mortgage my parents were not going to be able to afford an electrician to help bring the place up to code. They bought an old Readers Digest book on home repair and learned how to do plumbing, electricity, etc. on their own. This taught my brothers and I to always rely on ourselves first. Glad you and Sarah have power now and can catch your breaths a bit.
My grandpa learned how to rewire his home by using a craftsman electrical book he bought at Sears in the 60s. Passed the inspection with no problem. He reminded me of this while I was working on the project. Knowledge 🟰 wisdom 🟰 power. Thanks for the comment!
@DraysWorld NP! It looks like it does because the optical gizmo is magnetic and snaps onto the meter port, which has a metal plate behind the plastic to guide it into proper placement. This is required so the optics line up for communication.
That's fantastic news! I know that feeling when you've been without something like electricity or water for a long time and you finally get it back. It's an incredible feeling, especially when you are able to fix it yourself! Congrats to both of you!
So happy you now have power! Your videos are so very helpful and done so that unprofessionals can understand them. Your love for what you do shines through.
Congratulations on getting the Power on. A nice early Christmas present to yourself. That will make things go a lot easier. Hope getting the water on goes well.
Sting you finger in the emt after cutting it with a tubing cutter and spin it. It will cut your wire just like it cut your finger. Also the little red thing for your MC cable is called an anti-short and it is certainly code to use them.
I never did get the hang of bending EMT. Especially offsets. Now my brother, he could do it in his sleep. Maybe that’s why he continued on in the trade and I ended up a boiler inspector. 😊 Yes, always clean up behind yourself. My trade school instructor always emphasized that we do all our work in a neat and workman like manner. That tool for cutting BX cable is cool! I was taught to do it with a hack saw.
As a life long electrician myself, I can tell you that knock outs do not go in the trash can. They go in the drywall guys bucket of mud or on any floor that's about to receive vct. That's just the way it is.
Nicely done! I've always enjoyed wiring. I was fortunate to work in factory setting with company electricians, willing answer any goofy question I might have had about home wiring. When my boys were old enough to demand the fastest internet available for gaming, they helped with advice wiring my home with Cat5e data cable. Because, you know, God forbid mom and dad are using some of the bandwidth of the wireless router! I don't know what your requirements for data, TV and internet might be, but a structured media box can be a wonderful thing. I put a Leviton structured media center in our home. Everything cable tv, Cat5e data, phone lines and the fiber optic coming into our home, lands inside that box. Most rooms have modular wall plates with data, coax and no longer used traditional telephone wiring. Cell phones, who knew? Hey I'm old! Good luck and thanks for your time. BTW, I'm questioning the safety of sweaty leather gloves around electricity!
You definitely do not want to use wet leather gloves. After a few hours of working in them, (especially in the Florida heat where I was working in electrical). you have to switch to another pair or you’ll start feeling it. I like the idea of a media box. I might include this in the design. Thank you for the comment.
Hope you had an excellent thanksgiving I'm glad to see you guys back working on the bank again and I hope things are going well for you and I'm glad you're getting electricity welcome to the 20th century since you now have indoor plumbing and now electricity
@25mins the litte bit on the power meter is a optical data connector - they have a little dongle that uses infared light (like in your TV remotes) to talk with the internals of the meter - most of the data is just what is on the display but could be used for doing a few other things - though most companies charge a fortune for the dongle - they use light so there is no way for electrical power to get back to what ever connects to it
Minnesota boy here... I enjoy your videos. One thing though is every time I see the laundromat letters on the front window I want to fly down and help remove those. Anyway, I always thought buying an old fire station would be fun, where you'd live upstairs and do something commercial on the main floor. I guess the footprint is a lot like your bank!
It does look like an old-time firehouse. We’ve left the painted letters on the glass for nostalgia, but will probably remove the whole panel eventually since it’s cracked all the way from top to bottom.
Love the work you’re doing and assume unhook know the trade. Are you licensed? I wish I had the skill and the DIY if your skill set. Congtrars. I’ll be, watching.,
No, I don’t have a license. Just access to books, talented contractor, friends, and the Internet. Has the building owner I’m allowed to do the work myself fortunately. Thanks for the comment!
Single-stranded aluminum is not sold any longer to my knowledge, however, the larger gauge wires are typically aluminum. Copper is much more expensive. I prefer copper as most people would, but I’ll be using stranded aluminum for the incoming 200 amp service, which I’ll be installing soon.
Wait wait wait, you know how to bend pipe too, i saw that box offset. Goodluck with energizing unless its coming up at the end of vid here. Why not MC instead of flex, pulling through flex can be tedious. Good work
I’m only going to be using a small amount of flex in the whole building so I purchased a pre-wired hundred foot spool. As far as bending pipe, I have made a few mistakes on the bends but it all turned out pretty good. It even looks good up close..
it seems you took on this project some time ago yet, have made little to no progress beyond sweeping it out . Did you run out of funds right of way after the purchase ?
As someone who renovated many buildings in my younger days, It always took way longer than I thought to do most of the repairs and I received many unsolicited comments about how I should just go in debt to hire “professionals” to knock the job and get the building rented out. I have experienced that it is best to go at my own speed, as other responsibilities in my life compete for my time, but keep at it until it is completed in a time frame that works for me. Also, being a property owner brings with it the constant need for maintenance, repairs, and upgrading. You will never actually be “done” with the bank until you sell it or die.
We’re definitely not rich and cannot afford the quotes from contractors that we have received to get some of this work done. I’m doing it on my own to save money, but there’s only so many hours in a day and these videos don’t make themselves so it will take some time to complete. Much more has been done aside from sweeping that you haven’t seen a video yet, but will be viewable soon enough. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
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CONGRATULATIONS!! You Have the Power! I enjoy how you explain as you go along. I'm the youngest daughter of a general contractor and since he didn't have a son, he spent a lot of time with me showing how stuff works. At 70+ years of age, I've been able to do my own plumbing, electrical and carpentry work, although not as much as I used to. Years ago, I installed a garbage disposal and I thank my Dad everyday for the mechanical skills he taught me.
Owning a home for almost 15 years has taught me to be more reliant on myself & some friends occasionally help when I need them. It's always nice to have information available when you start a project, especially a big one. One time I was able to fix my dryer, it was something small but I got it working & it saved me money. Congrats on getting temporary power!
My family and I moved into a hundred year old home back in 1976. With 4 kids and a mortgage my parents were not going to be able to afford an electrician to help bring the place up to code. They bought an old Readers Digest book on home repair and learned how to do plumbing, electricity, etc. on their own. This taught my brothers and I to always rely on ourselves first. Glad you and Sarah have power now and can catch your breaths a bit.
My grandpa learned how to rewire his home by using a craftsman electrical book he bought at Sears in the 60s. Passed the inspection with no problem. He reminded me of this while I was working on the project. Knowledge 🟰 wisdom 🟰 power. Thanks for the comment!
That little port on the front of the meter is an optical interface, used for programming and testing the meter.
Thank you!
@DraysWorld NP!
It looks like it does because the optical gizmo is magnetic and snaps onto the meter port, which has a metal plate behind the plastic to guide it into proper placement.
This is required so the optics line up for communication.
So happy for you guys. Even temporary it has to be nice to have power.
That's fantastic news! I know that feeling when you've been without something like electricity or water for a long time and you finally get it back. It's an incredible feeling, especially when you are able to fix it yourself! Congrats to both of you!
I'm so happy for you. Power is everything. It's truly a game changer. Good for you.
Congratulations 🎉
It’s amazing how having that changes the pace of everything. You don’t feel quite like you’re camping!
🔥
So happy you now have power! Your videos are so very helpful and done so that unprofessionals can understand them. Your love for what you do shines through.
Thank you!
When the light came on, your face also lit up. Congratulations!
Keep up the great job, the end result will be great.
Congratulations on your power hookup. Wow, this will make a difference now. Glad for you. Thanks.
Congratulations on getting the Power on. A nice early Christmas present to yourself. That will make things go a lot easier. Hope getting the water on goes well.
Nice work! Party time 🎉
Well done.
Thank you!
Sting you finger in the emt after cutting it with a tubing cutter and spin it. It will cut your wire just like it cut your finger. Also the little red thing for your MC cable is called an anti-short and it is certainly code to use them.
Ahh. The anti-short.. thanks for the reminder.
I never did get the hang of bending EMT. Especially offsets. Now my brother, he could do it in his sleep. Maybe that’s why he continued on in the trade and I ended up a boiler inspector. 😊 Yes, always clean up behind yourself. My trade school instructor always emphasized that we do all our work in a neat and workman like manner. That tool for cutting BX cable is cool! I was taught to do it with a hack saw.
I use to use a hack saw but the cutter tool saves some headache. Bending that pipe took a few mistakes before I got the hang of it again.
As a life long electrician myself, I can tell you that knock outs do not go in the trash can. They go in the drywall guys bucket of mud or on any floor that's about to receive vct. That's just the way it is.
As someone who is a hoarder, I can tell you, knockouts go in the box of misc washers, just in case.
Since I’ll be doing the drywall finishing, I’ll keep the rest of the knockouts for someone else is mud bucket! 🤣
Not a bad idea
Looking forward to seeing more videos.
❤😊
Finally you can plug in your fog machine.
And my party lights.
Nicely done! I've always enjoyed wiring. I was fortunate to work in factory setting with company electricians, willing answer any goofy question I might have had about home wiring. When my boys were old enough to demand the fastest internet available for gaming, they helped with advice wiring my home with Cat5e data cable. Because, you know, God forbid mom and dad are using some of the bandwidth of the wireless router!
I don't know what your requirements for data, TV and internet might be, but a structured media box can be a wonderful thing. I put a Leviton structured media center in our home. Everything cable tv, Cat5e data, phone lines and the fiber optic coming into our home, lands inside that box. Most rooms have modular wall plates with data, coax and no longer used traditional telephone wiring. Cell phones, who knew? Hey I'm old!
Good luck and thanks for your time. BTW, I'm questioning the safety of sweaty leather gloves around electricity!
You definitely do not want to use wet leather gloves. After a few hours of working in them, (especially in the Florida heat where I was working in electrical). you have to switch to another pair or you’ll start feeling it. I like the idea of a media box. I might include this in the design. Thank you for the comment.
Hope you had an excellent thanksgiving I'm glad to see you guys back working on the bank again and I hope things are going well for you and I'm glad you're getting electricity welcome to the 20th century since you now have indoor plumbing and now electricity
We’re getting more modern every day.
@25mins the litte bit on the power meter is a optical data connector - they have a little dongle that uses infared light (like in your TV remotes) to talk with the internals of the meter - most of the data is just what is on the display but could be used for doing a few other things - though most companies charge a fortune for the dongle - they use light so there is no way for electrical power to get back to what ever connects to it
Interesting. Thanks for the insight!
First! Enjoyed your videos and today I'm first to get to view this one!
Minnesota boy here... I enjoy your videos. One thing though is every time I see the laundromat letters on the front window I want to fly down and help remove those. Anyway, I always thought buying an old fire station would be fun, where you'd live upstairs and do something commercial on the main floor. I guess the footprint is a lot like your bank!
It does look like an old-time firehouse. We’ve left the painted letters on the glass for nostalgia, but will probably remove the whole panel eventually since it’s cracked all the way from top to bottom.
Love the work you’re doing and assume unhook know the trade. Are you licensed? I wish I had the skill and the DIY if your skill set. Congtrars. I’ll be, watching.,
No, I don’t have a license. Just access to books, talented contractor, friends, and the Internet. Has the building owner I’m allowed to do the work myself fortunately. Thanks for the comment!
Aluminum electrical wiring is HUGE no-no where i live
Single-stranded aluminum is not sold any longer to my knowledge, however, the larger gauge wires are typically aluminum. Copper is much more expensive. I prefer copper as most people would, but I’ll be using stranded aluminum for the incoming 200 amp service, which I’ll be installing soon.
Wait wait wait, you know how to bend pipe too, i saw that box offset. Goodluck with energizing unless its coming up at the end of vid here. Why not MC instead of flex, pulling through flex can be tedious. Good work
I’m only going to be using a small amount of flex in the whole building so I purchased a pre-wired hundred foot spool. As far as bending pipe, I have made a few mistakes on the bends but it all turned out pretty good. It even looks good up close..
it seems you took on this project some time ago yet, have made little to no progress beyond sweeping it out . Did you run out of funds right of way after the purchase ?
As someone who renovated many buildings in my younger days, It always took way longer than I thought to do most of the repairs and I received many unsolicited comments about how I should just go in debt to hire “professionals” to knock the job and get the building rented out. I have experienced that it is best to go at my own speed, as other responsibilities in my life compete for my time, but keep at it until it is completed in a time frame that works for me. Also, being a property owner brings with it the constant need for maintenance, repairs, and upgrading. You will never actually be “done” with the bank until you sell it or die.
This statement is absolutely true. Thank you.
We’re definitely not rich and cannot afford the quotes from contractors that we have received to get some of this work done. I’m doing it on my own to save money, but there’s only so many hours in a day and these videos don’t make themselves so it will take some time to complete. Much more has been done aside from sweeping that you haven’t seen a video yet, but will be viewable soon enough. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
Congratulations on your power, this makes people appreciate the trades without the trades no power no a/c or heat no sewage and water.. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
There’s no closed captions. Can you add this to the video?
It takes some time after the video is published for this to be available . It should come up shortly though.
Are you planning to run a business out of the first floor when you're done renovating?
Either that or lease it out. It’s too far out for us to say for sure right now.