Strike one: No cable or internet: Comcast told me to just connect it myself. It didn't work so I had to stare at the walls and just watch content already on my computer for a week. .
Strike two: Go into my car to try and start it to drive to the laundry room and it's dead.
Strike three: Go to plug something in and all the power goes out to half of the house. No AC in the bedroom , No Bathroom light or exhaust fan, No living room AC, no ceiling fans in either bedroom.
It could have been worse, at least half the electric still worked and my fridge and stove still did as well as the wall sockets on that side of the house.
I was able to buy a heavy gauge extension cord and run my bedroom 5000 btu AC with it.
I called the handyman who did some work to check out what happened and also he had forgotten some drill bits. He said he would call me w hen he was in the area but never called me back after that. .
Today I decided to try it myself since it's 3 weeks now. I was just afraid that changing that socket that blew everything out was not gonna fix the problem and I was thinking I had to spend thousands to fix half the electric in my house. Plus electricity is scary to me.
Problem 1: Cable company came a week later and installed a new cable line the old one was bad.
Problem 2: Called the motor club the next day. When they got there I told him about it either being the starter or a negative cable loose. He wiggled it, as did I previously and it started right up. Drove to Walmart (where I bought it) and they tightened it up for me.
Problem 3: I had bought an electrical socket the next day but was waiting for the handyman to do it. Since he never showed up I decided to try myself. (3 weeks after the problem started)
I had watch a Youtube video plus when removing the old one I carefully watched where everything went and took pictures just in case. It was more confusing because the wires were pushed in instead of around a screw, but I figured it out.
First i obviously shut all the breaker switches and the master switches and checked to make sure the electric was off by trying to turn something on. The I disconnected the old socket, attached the new one, turned the power on and my ceiling fan stated to turn, so I new I was good.
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I'm so happy that my problem was resolved by replacing a socket that only cost a few bucks
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I might install some heavy duty outlets with breakers for my window AC units now that I know it's not that hard to do.
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