Wife's Project

[Hank70SS]

Glad you found it. It's crazy how they run the wiring in houses. I plugged a pressure washer into an outside outlet and it ran for a second then stopped. I plugged into a different outlet and went on. A few minutes later Lynda came out and said the lights are out in the basement. The outlet I first used was on the outside of the family room which is over a crawlspace. They used the push in terminals on the back instead of the screw lugs and the outlet burned. The wiring does not go from the basement to the crawl space. It must come from above, either from between the 1st and 2nd stories or from the 2nd story down. Then back up, over to the main level then back down to the basement which is where the breaker panel is. Sounds like the long way around to wire the basement when the breaker panel is right there.