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"Energy efficiency and electric paper cutter passive-solar heating save homeowners huge amounts each year in reduced utility bills," says emily dekker-fiala, office coordinator for the group. "many of our homeowners came from poorly built, drafty, energy-inefficient paper rental homes--houses built for copper miners at the turn of the century. these homes often cost $200 to $300 a month to heat. in our energy-efficient homes, heating bills run from $20 to $30 per month." what people need to drill and electric realize, she says, is that an important aspect of affordable paper housing is not just the initial cost of the house, but making sure that people can afford to continue living in it. in this article, we''ll show you some basics--how to position outlet and switch boxes and run electrical cable between them. we won''t cover many other details. for information about how to connect the outlets, switches drill and light fixtures, see "for more information" on p. 68. for help with circuit design and making connections to your main electrical panel, we recommend you consult a licensed electrician. bringing electric more paper power to the upper floor of a house--for outlets, lights or a bath fan--usually means first running cable into the attic. the main plumbing vent stack often provides the easiest path. usually, there are gaps around the stack where it passes through ceilings and floors, so you can drop a plumb bob from the attic to the basement or crawlspace. to get past ceilings and floors, you may have to bounce the plumb bob until it finds the gap. when the plumb bob reaches the basement, tie cable to the drill chain and pull it up to the attic. quick and simple. but this trick won''t work all the time: unlike cast-iron stacks, which have to run straight up to support their own weight, lighter plastic stacks sometimes include short horizontal sections. and in recent years, builders have begun sealing the gaps around stacks to keep fire from spreading and to prevent heat loss. for this article, i tested ten professional-grade tools from electric nine different paper manufacturers: drill bosch, dewalt, hilti, hitachi, makita, metabo, milwaukee, panasonic, and porter-cable. i chose to focus on the 14.4-volt tools because they''re a reasonable electric compromise between the lighter 12-volt and the heavier 18- and 24-volt models. tradespeople paper seem to agree, because they buy more 14.4-volt drill-drivers than any other drill cordless tool. ©2003 www.electricdrills.net. All rights reserved. |