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[Stumpfarmer]

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Sadly I hate to tell ya but the last pic is the only one that looks worth keeping !

No the shed looks ok what I can see but the knob and tube wiring needs to go to the recycle man. It is pretty hard to tell if there is power with out grabbing wires to see if I do the funky chicken !

Is it possible to get a better look at the wires coming from the house and where they go into the shed?

I don't think there *are* any wires going to the shed, unless they could be underground. That's why I thought maybe they once attached at that outside point on the shed (in pic). I don't see any wires going through the air to that shed.

A lot of times when an inspector red-tags wiring in an outbuilding, the cheap and easy way to get into building code compliance is to cut the incoming power wire, so that's probably what happened- I'd be willing to bet the last time the property changed hands, or when the house was rewired to modern code.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Ari'smom Lte me give you and others a little inspiration. Today I was talking to a local lady. Found out that she had just had a house fire. Turns out it was Electrical. Since she didn't have the money to hire a contractor to rewire . She got a permit. Went to HD bought a book and supplies. She was so proud because she was able to use the book as a guide, do all of the wiring herself and passed. I was impressed and told her congrats. This just shows that PEOPLE CAN do things for themselves. And you Ari'smom could wire this shed up too.

Just like eatin lettuce there ain't nothin to it.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

For a minute there, I thought you meant there was a fire because she did it herself.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

What might be more feasible than rewiring the shed is figuring out why the outlet on the outside of the house doesn't work. It's even in a fairly protected area, so I might be able to put a closed/insulated brooder there.

 

[broodytood]

Sitting here waiting for the next round of poke and prod. Then conference with the drs. Wee.

Gorgeous day in Seattle though!

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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Yeah, it finally cleared up an hour or so ago. Where are you? UW?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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It might be the only outlet on a GFI protected circuit where the GFI breaker has been tripped and needs reset (do you have a bathroom or basement switch/outlet that's also dead? Does it have a set of red and black buttons?), or there may be an interior switch that turns on the outside plug (which logic says should be next to the nearest door, but good luck with that). Or the circuit it's on may have been prone to tripping the breaker (probably because it got wet a lot) so they yanked that breaker from your box and killed the circuit.

Plug a safety light into your outside circuit and go around flipping switches you don't normally use- if you're lucky you'll find a switch that activates the outside plug. If now, and if there's no Ground Fault Interrupter switches you can find, and you've looked in your box (do you have a breaker box or is it an old-fashioned fuse box?)and all the breakers are pointed in the right direction/fuses are live, you may be stuck with finding an electrician, but CR's right: look things up on the internet and see if there's another problem.

 

[Breshcandra]

Yeah i got exciting news... my first ever chick is hatching. Only took two silkies sitting on the same nest

 

[justbugged]

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Very very cool!!!!

I just got my bator into lock down with a dozen Silkie eggs. I heard little peeps coming from the eggs, so at this point I know somebody is alive and well in there.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

I feel kind of stupid now. I tested the outlet on the house, and it's working fine. I then remembered that the reason I couldn't use it when I put my chicks in the shed was because I had a 3-pronged extension cord and the outlet only takes two prongs. So it looks like I could set up a hutch there, assuming I could find a way to keep water out of the outlet.