Comment on Renovating a converted patio
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Remove and store the stove. Take the will thing apart one layer at a time. I think your primary concern should be the electrical. Try to carefully expose any wiring. You might want to hire an electrician to trace and de-energize the space.
From your description, the odds are in favor of removing the entire structure. You might be able to salvage the building materials.
I’d be most concerned about the electrical work. Consider adding a combo smoke/CO detector ASAP.
prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Had an electrician go through the entire place when we first bought the house so we could get safe three-prong outlets in place of the two-prong ungrounded outlets that were originally there. Didn’t do a full rewire because there’s no ceiling access - originally, the only heatsource for the house was electric radiant ceilings, though a couple baseboards were installed at some point after initial construction. The wiring for the sunroom’s A/C is run through a conduit on the outside of the house. I replaced the original through-wall unit shortly after we moved in, and I’ve seen that whole circuit.
What about the interior wall, against what used to be the exterior of the house?
octobob@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
When you say “didn’t do a full re-wire” do you mean he left all wiring as is inside the walls and swapped 2-prong ungrounded outlets to 3-prong (which would be a bootleg ground and is illegal)
Or do you mean he ran new wire to some of the outlets and left what he couldn’t get to as 2-prong?
I’m an electrician fwiw.
prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Most of the circuits were wired with 12/3 already but with the ground wire not hooked up to anything. The electrician replaced the service panel, hooked up the grounds and installed new three-prong outlets. The circuits that were wired with 12/2 got GFCI outlets.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You should expose the conditions behind that wall.