anyone know about home power?

[Cleo]

Run an extension cord to your neighbors house

[spookyx]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Run an extension cord to your neighbors house

When I was in college we lived in an old victorian era house that had been converted into 3 apts.. The upstairs neighbors moved out and when they cut the power, The 2 main big window units we had died. Took me about 10 seconds to figure out that we were getting power from the upstairs apt for them. I loved it when more people moved in. Free AC all summer.

[juggernaut]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Run an extension cord to your neighbors house

thank you all. Cleo believe me I would love to, in fact the neighbors bedrooms are right next to my loft wall and im sure would not be an issue for me to find one of their outlets and splice off it. lol but cant do that.
Anyway do you guys have any idea what type of price we are talking? I mean i have no idea about wiring house stuff, i got shocked real bad a ways back and never ever play with the stuff. But I also dont know what to expect to pay. I dont want to be rapped but i dont want a shitty job either. getting to and from the inside of the walls is easy. most of the stuff is like 20 feet down one wall and that can all be gotten to from the attic which is right next to the loft. thanks guys maybe we should open a section here for home repairs lol im sitting in the dark cause im scared to turn anything on with my computer on lol. but the AC is working great. I have sweats on now lol.

[plateman]

well from what I know if all the lights or other things in the house dimmed when the compressor kicked on(thats the part inside the the ac unit) and if the line that the ac was on overloaded it would kickout the breaker and then no ac..

also you cant run a high current appilance on a long extension cord as the current drop would make the unit barely run.. Thats why the frige and window ac units have a short cord.. and your problem is probably to light of wiring in your condo... and all condos IHO are made from the cheapest supplies they can get... I would call someone to inspect your wiring... as you have a problem.. And I would guess that he would say that - the loft is probably the longest distance from your breaker box and they used the wrong gauge wiring as hardly anyone puts a ac unit in a loft...