trying to wire my room, little help with electricty wiring

PoBox123 · Oct 1, 2009

Ok, after climbing all through my attic on a 90 degree day, 100 + in attic. I finally figured out the outlet I was trying to use had other things attched to it, and that is why my Portable AC unit was kicking the breaker. In my discovery of the attic I also found a 20 amp wire that led to a outlet in my house that has nothing else on it. That's a good thing.

I tried to pull the wire up the wall into the attic to splice more wire to it, to get the wire where I need it to be. It would not budge. It must be nailed or something inside the wall halfway up.

My question is. Can I turn off the breaker to that outlet and then cut the wire in the attic and splice it with wire nuts and then using the same gauge wire pull the connected wire where I need it to be?

If not, do I have to add some kind of box in the attic where I'm going to splice the wires together?

If yes, what kind of box and can someone show a picture or drawing of what I need to do.

I am retarded when it comes to electricty.

Thanks everybody, I really need the help.

Po.

sagensour · Oct 1, 2009

I am a certified electrician and certified in heating and air conditioning. Is your house a new house, how old is it? What gauge wire is it that your needing to isolate? Almosts sounds like its a new home with Ground Fault Interupters (GFI) on the breakers them self.. Does the breaker have a reset button on it, or is it just a standard switchable breaker? What amp is the breaker? How many times has it tripped? Are the wire connections tight from the breaker to the outlet. Is the air conditioner hardstarting??? What amp draw is the a/c giving upon start up and run? Is it copper or aluminum wire? If aluminum, is there NOLOXs on the wire? All of these little things can cause problems there self. If you reply to as many questions as you can it would help me get you through this.......

PoBox123 · Oct 1, 2009

sagensour said:
I am a certified electrician and certified in heating and air conditioning. Is your house a new house, how old is it? What gauge wire is it that your needing to isolate? Almosts sounds like its a new home with Ground Fault Interupters (GFI) on the breakers them self.. Does the breaker have a reset button on it, or is it just a standard switchable breaker? What amp is the breaker? How many times has it tripped? Are the wire connections tight from the breaker to the outlet. Is the air conditioner hardstarting??? What amp draw is the a/c giving upon start up and run? Is it copper or aluminum wire? If aluminum, is there NOLOXs on the wire? All of these little things can cause problems there self. If you reply to as many questions as you can it would help me get you through this.......

Thanks, for responding,

House was built in 05. I was trying to run Everstar 10000 BTU portable AC unit plugged into a regular brown 15 amp recipticle in the attic. On the side of the AC unit it says it only draws 12.5 amps. I can run it on fan mode, but if the compressor kicks on in cool mode breaker kicks." it is just a regular 15 amp breaker not GFI. I thought the plug I was using was wired directly to the panel but discovered other things are wired to it somewhere.

The wire is "white plastic wrapped" whatever gauge that is. I gave up on that idea though.

I tried to find another outlet "20 amp breaker" that I could just disconnect wire from plug and pull back into the attic,splice it and run it to the room where I need it to be. I found one in my laundry room on the oppisite wall of where washer and dryer is, It is a seperate plug with no other wires attached to it inside the "blue" box. The wire is "yellow plastic wrapped"

I disconnected the outlet and tried to pull it back to the attic but it won't budge. It's stuck or nailed or something, somewhere between the plug and the top of the wall into the attic.

My plan was to turn off the breaker and cut wire in attic and splice it together and run it to my room.

But, I got to thinking about it. and what if it is connected to another wire half way up the wall? Is that possible?

The light switch works with the breaker off in the utility room,and the washer and dryer work, so I know it has nothing to do with the lights or W/D it only has three wires in the blue box at the wall, white, black and bare. It has a regular 20 amp breaker in the panel, I think I have a winner, if it is not connected to anything else between the wall and the ceiling.

Can I do what I'm attempting? or not?

Do I have to put a blue box in the attic? wire together and then pull to my room?
Or can I just use wire nuts to tie together and pull to new room??

Or should I just shoot myself? I am tired of insulation in the old pores from crawling around the attic when it's hot as hell outside!!

I hate the fucking south. Cool weather for a change would be nice!!!

Please help.

Thanks,

Po.

trying to wire my room, little help with electricty wiring

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