Favorite Wife and I are Duking it out…Help!

Quote:

---

Need to be careful with the wires, they are color coded different than in a boat. Green or bare copper is ground, white is hot, black is neutral. To be safe find the breaker and make sure the power is off, heck while you are at the breaker panel, shut off some other “non essential” things of hers and blame it on moving the ceiling fans around, if she starts in , hand her the screwdriver and pliers and say have at it.

---

Sorry Fireman, you have your colors mixed up! The colored wire (black, red, yellow, etc) is always hot, white is always neutral,and green is always ground.

A good investement would be a “buzz” tester. It will tell you when there is power to a circuit simply by pushing the button and getting it near the wire. They are about $20 and you can get them at any home store.

BrianK, remember that many ceiling fans have (2) wires feeding them, one for light and one for the fan, so make sure the way they are disconnected is the same way you wire the new fan.

Good luck.

Rock? We need to talk!

Quote:

---

What color lipstick…and did the heels match?

---

Ish.

So that’s what the electrician was muttering about and shaking his head, when he updated the breaker box in my house. The builders back whenever wired the house backwards.

Allright Brian
Do you know that old joke about who wears the pants in the family vs who gets into the pantyhose?

Do you know what SWMBO means?

I’m hip with those two concepts, but still NOBODY and I mean NOBODY “lets” me go fishin’. It should be abundantly clear that I will fish while married to you or I will fish while I’m not married to you. But nobody lets me go fishing.

Fortunately when I’m not happy around the house, my wife WANTS me to “go spend sometime alone on the lake”.

No matter what you do..or don’t do, you’re still wrong.

Just before my marriage, my Pop gave me some sound advice. He said, “Nobody’s happy unless momma’s happy. When she’s unhappy your mother’s unhappy. When your mother is unhappy…you don’t want to go there”.

No dboubt the fans will be changed a few times. Just the small price of happiness.

Briank…back to the fan thing…seeing the picture of Sgt. Rock at the fuse box gave me another idea on how to get out of moving the fans….just tell her one is 110 volts and the other is 220volts, she will never know the difference. Don’t know why I didn’t think of it earlier.

BrianK,

You will be better served if you let her go to the store and pick out new fans. Then you should be able to get a few years time before you have to relive this incident.

TODAY, she came home with a new fan for the living room. The fan that’s in the living room is now going it to the bedroom where we don’t have a fan.

I’m dealing with this..ok yet…

Then she has this ceiling plate that goes on first…then the fan and the light. She want me to put it up so she can figure out what color to paint it…take in down…paint it and put the whole thing back up again…

Guys…I’m not making this up!

PS just so there’s no misunderstanding…there’s only one other person that I would want to live with for over 25 years…and Boss of Putz got him first.

GEM_EYE_GUY

A person never truly becomes a good fisherman until he’s married. ~ Briank 1956 – 2006

Had the same problem a while back. Fan in the bedroom was “too noisy”, so changed it with another. Lo and behold, that one was too noisy too. So off to Home Depot and we now have new fans all around. Worked out for me too, the “noisy” fans are now above the boat in the pole shed. Helps dry it out now and then. When she finally noticed the new fans, she was happy. Later she made very, very happy!

Two down…two more fans to go!