I don't know much about electrical work. I know that I hate doing it. Hubby and I were putting a new light fixture in the kitchen today, and of course it's not a nice clean-cut simple job. We've replaced light fixtures together before... a couple times without any trouble. What we pulled down was a florescent fixture - piece of shit. The trouble was, up in the ceiling, there was a red wire, and a white wire. There was a black wire up there too, but it was capped off and tucked way up in there - not used. No fucking ground wire to speak of. So anyways, we wrap the ground wire from the new fixture around the ground screw and around that black wire just for good measure. Hubby couldn't remember if the old fixture had white to white and black to red or vice versa. I'm saying "I'm pretty sure you should go with white to white, but I'm not sure about the ground." See, back in TN, we had a similar problem and we had a light throwing sparks all over the place, so I'm really apprehensive about this kind of stuff. So, I'm one of those nagging "please stop for directions" kind of wives. We've got an electrician that lives next door and a carpenter across the street, so there are people to ask.
Anyway, I'm totally nervous as we test our little rigged light... Hubby goes to flip the breaker back on - damn thing wouldn't stay on. Hmmm. "GO ASK THE NEIGHBOR!" He finally agreed. Unfortunately, electrician neighbor wasn't home. Carpenter neighbor has company, so we didn't want to bug him. To make a long story short, hubby took the ground wire off of that black wire which is for only god knows what and then we crossed our fingers and tried it. No sparks (Phew)!! Did I mention I hate electrical work???
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