"Cathy Weeks" wrote in message
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I've been putting in the tape wire, and installing the eyelets. I
installed the junction splice on the underside of the house (in space
created by the "foundations") I'll route out a "mouse hole" for the
cord to escape.

But I got out the tester, and ALL splices worked. I guess I expected
it to be more fiddly, more of a problem to get right, and would
require lots of trouble shooting. I'm very, very glad it was so easy.

I had a few wrinkles that I'll have to figure out how to disguise (and
I figured out how to avoid them next time).

The shocking thing is that I used nearly FIFTEEN FEET of tape in a
small cottage. I did have some waste - sloppy plans, and stuff that
was too wrinkled, so I pulled it out and started over. But that only
amounts to a foot or maybe 18 inches. I NEVER would have guessed that
it would take so much. But the house will have 4 ceiling fixtures and
5 outlets (with flexibility to add more).

Cathy Weeks

I think that when most people tapewire they find that it's easier than they
thought. I put off wiring my house for months because I thought that it
would be a nightmare. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it's
really simple. Wait till your first lamp lights up. What a joy!

Remember that if you add more lights to make sure that your transformer can
handle them. Each transformer can handle a certain number of bulbs (not
lights) so that a 6 bulb chandelier counts as 6, not 1. You can check this
on the cir-kit website.
http://cir-kitconcepts.com/estore5/ I had to use 3 transformers on my big
house.


Carol
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