Staying Grounded

With the build out we need to expand the electric service coming into the house. We don't want to overload any of the existing circuit boards. Each building has its own. Bill learned how to pull a meter at one of our rent houses a month ago so we didn't need to call an electrician to come out and this for us. There is not a main shut off switch for our power there should be but there isn't.. The drawback of living outside an incorporated city is that people do not need to follow code. You should, Oklahoma has a statewide building code everyone is suppose to follow but not everyone does. We like it because we don't have to have professionals come in and sign off on our work and wait for inspectors. We are building according to code, the experts put these standards in place for a reason not just to make busy work.We know a lot of the professionals who sat on the committee which wrote the code and they volunteered their time to set the building code. If we don't know how something is suppose to be done we call the pros and ask them.

First thing you need to do is ground the box. You drill a hole through the floor and pound a metal rod into the dirt at least two feet. That way if any sparking happens it runs into the ground and is grounded.

 Copper is used everywhere to keep the electricity from jumping all over the place.

 Green is always your ground wire.

The little copper wire screwed in to the right side tower and the box is another ground.

 So if something should happen the errant electricity will follow the copper wire down, under, up and then down the green wire into the ground. Whew! We are safe!