One of Those Days

[elrhiarhodan]

Not been a good day today.

Changed a light bulb in the very beautiful crystal chandelier in my office. Shorted the circuit. Reset the circuit and then noticed that the light was flickering. Went to shut off the light and the circuit blew again. Reset it, took out the flickering lightbulb and turned the light back on. Circuit blew again and now the breaker is bad.

Removed the breaker from the box, except that I can't figure out how to get the last wire out of the breaker.

Electrician can't come until Tuesday morning. Have an extension cord so at least the modem is powered up.

Which means that the first claims post will still go live around 10 am.

I didn't need this, today of all days.

Comments

[elrhiarhodan]

Actually, changing circuit breakers is one of the few electrical jobs a homeowner can do.

[sinfulslasher]

Huh. You're strongly discouraged to do so around here. Turn 'em off, sure. Changing 'em, no. *ponders* Changing the fuse, that's fine. But that's it.

Maybe things are different in the US? I mean, anything from light bulbs to light switches are different, and IIRC, fuses look different too, so... *shrugs*

The more you know! :)

[elrhiarhodan]

My contractor, who came and fixed the circuit and just left with my light fixture to rewire, gave me hell for playing around with the circuit breaker panel.

And banned me from home improvement videos on YouTube!

[sinfulslasher]

Well, listen to the man! (though them vids are always so much fun to watch...but you don't wanna burn down HW!)

He took the beautiful chandelier with him? Woe! I hope he'll have it rewired soon and brings it back asap!