Japanese house # 3

Part 3 yea! I have to back up just a little and go over the electrical installation. After visiting many home centers and bringing an Ideal fish tape from the states, I found the work to be quite smooth and the Japanese products were exceptional.

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[GustavBf]

日本では屋内配線工事は電気工事士の資格が必要ですよー。。。

まあ、みんなコッソリやってるけどね。

[toddatron]

Yea. True....but... I have seen some pretty bad work done by Japanese electricians and by Americans in the US too. No insult meant here. In regards to the license ....that's the case in America as well. I am very particular about my work and I have years of electrical experience..... Thanks for the comment. Maybe someday I can get licensed here in Japan.

[king45]

lol i didnt know you could replace a conductor as a ground. I thought the ground had to be a smaller AWG.

[toddatron]

The reason its smaller is because it only needs to be large enough to arrest a short circuit without melting/failing. This saves the manufacture money and saves box fill space. It never carries a load aside from creating an emergency path to ground and it never should. If its bigger all the better:) If you mark the conductor clearly as a ground you are o.k. when swapping a conductor out.

[CI5MITH]

On the walls, particularly close to the windows. I was hoping dehumidifier would work??

[toddatron]

I forgot to say that a dehumidifier is always good if you have that much moisture.

[BusanKevin]

very interesting! Man, you gots some serious skills!!!! I have no idea how to do anything you were talking about.

[ChemistInJapan]

Wow, that actually answers a lot of questions that I didn't realize I had.

[DerDudeInShanghai]

this is, what we call back home, interesting ;)

[surfer21]

Your giving me lots of info for when i need to start doing the reno on the house in mejiro!!! Same vintage as yours with exactly same walls etc. Your fuse box looks really modern though?? Did you replace it or was it like that? When working on the fuse box is their a major fuse to remove so you can work on fusebox when needed?

My floors on the ground floor are all stuffed and crack underneath my weight which is only 80kg. The floor is going to be one of first jobs!!

[king45]

Thanks for clearing that out

[toddatron]

I could be residual sweat from the glass dripping? Or its cold air coming from around the poorly caulked windows. It gets into the wall cavity around the window then the cold wall sweats in the heat. Caulking around the window and frame outside may help this. If the gaps are huge then spray foam can be used as well. Its also could be that the window is cold and leaking air itself and that air is making the walls sweat. In that case plastic sheeting is the only answer aside from a new window.