So, my kitchen is still a mess...My summer online class isn't helping any. (And for the record, my instructor is a total jerk.)
I've lost power to half my kitchen. I have a friend who is a pro. I've sent him pictures, and we've exchanged calls and emails. It seems like the previous occupant put a breaker that was much too large in for the wire that was coming to it. Makes sense right, less likely to "blow a fuse" from over loading it if you have a larger breaker running it. WRONG. Apparently, it probably blew the line running into it, and is a potential fire hazard. My husband thinks he can fix it...I'd like to have professional do it, since I'm the one who sleeps here at night (he sleeps during the day when I'm up and could wake him when the house starts on fire).
I need to be SO VERY grateful that this was not the fuse that ran the dishwasher. But it did run the garbage disposal, the over the sink light, 2 wall outlets and...my microwave. I use it more than I thought. I mean, how else can you cook hotdogs? So, I have an extension cord running out from the cabinet (where we ran a new outlet specifically for the microwave from the outlet right below it when we did the kitchen remodel), to another spot further along the wall. I can't close the cabinet. It looks super ghetto!
Now, if I need to run the disposal...I have to plug it in to an extension cord and run it to yet another outlet. The extension cord keeps disappearing. My husband doesn't want to pay a professional. He seems to think he can do it. Yet when I explained to him what we believed the problem to be, and how to fix it....he didn't understand. So, I might be sneaking around my husband's back with an electrician! Not doing anything that would get me excommunicated or anything...just getting my kitchen back. Part of me feels I have to at least hide my mess...that's why I haven't done it yet.
Know how hard it is to sneak another man into your house when your husband is there? I haven't quite figured out how I'm going to do it. It's hard enough trying to figure out when I can wash the sheets w/o having to be up till 2 am waiting for them to dry!
Let's hope its a quick, easy and cheap fix (yeah, right)!
