Tracing 240v plug lost in wall from the breaker.
I moved into my mostly empty childhood home for a few months and I've been using my free time to fix thing up around the place. I would love a 240v plug in the garage for a garage laundry room or just to charge my ev, and as it turns out we've got an entirely unused 240v breaker! If I can get to it. So my mom used some wonky contractor of a friend to save money and get the most out of a flooding insurance claim. Very resourceful lady on a single income and as a widow got the whole house renovated, but the downside is the plumbing and electrical was definitely subpar. Now I know we had a 240 for our oven in the kitchen and there is a 240v breaker marked "oven", but the alcove for the double oven is now a wall with nice cabinetry on both sides. I checked by flipping the breaker and it affected nothing in the kitchen, so im going to assume they just left it in the wall and went over it. I dont want to pay an electrician $100's to literally cut a wire and run to an outlet 3 feet from the main panel on the same wall. What are some non invasive ways to trace lines from the breaker, would one of those Klein tools wall probes work? I'd assume it would at least need a closed circuit to emit a signal from the wire. My mom's older and wary of holes in her nice painted walls, so if im going to cut drywall I need it to be small and done with so I can patch and paint. Background: House is relatively newer build so to code and not accounting for old school wiring, built 2004 in Eastvale, CA. submitted by /u/dancingbanana921 [link] [comments]
I moved into my mostly empty childhood home for a few months and I've been using my free time to fix thing up around the place. I would love a 240v plug in the garage for a garage laundry room or just to charge my ev, and as it turns out we've got an entirely unused 240v breaker! If I can get to it.
So my mom used some wonky contractor of a friend to save money and get the most out of a flooding insurance claim. Very resourceful lady on a single income and as a widow got the whole house renovated, but the downside is the plumbing and electrical was definitely subpar. Now I know we had a 240 for our oven in the kitchen and there is a 240v breaker marked "oven", but the alcove for the double oven is now a wall with nice cabinetry on both sides. I checked by flipping the breaker and it affected nothing in the kitchen, so im going to assume they just left it in the wall and went over it. I dont want to pay an electrician $100's to literally cut a wire and run to an outlet 3 feet from the main panel on the same wall.
What are some non invasive ways to trace lines from the breaker, would one of those Klein tools wall probes work? I'd assume it would at least need a closed circuit to emit a signal from the wire. My mom's older and wary of holes in her nice painted walls, so if im going to cut drywall I need it to be small and done with so I can patch and paint.
Background: House is relatively newer build so to code and not accounting for old school wiring, built 2004 in Eastvale, CA.
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