. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. Two Electricians Will Appear the sort. You would scarcely know therewas a workman in your house. In aday or two tis done and the bill, whenreceived, surprises you by its smallness. It is well first to have the house lookedover by an expert estimator, then whenyou place your order, two electricianswill appear with a bag full of electricaltools, a few coils of wire and conduit, abag of porcelain insulators, fuse blocksand other necessities. The bag is de-posited in a corner of the cellar or theattic, from which point the work is un-obtrusively beg
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. Two Electricians Will Appear the sort. You would scarcely know therewas a workman in your house. In aday or two tis done and the bill, whenreceived, surprises you by its smallness. It is well first to have the house lookedover by an expert estimator, then whenyou place your order, two electricianswill appear with a bag full of electricaltools, a few coils of wire and conduit, abag of porcelain insulators, fuse blocksand other necessities. The bag is de-posited in a corner of the cellar or theattic, from which point the work is un-obtrusively begun. Now the service wires, as they are called, will enter your house perhaps inthe attic, or possibly in the cellar or at aside or a back porch and the main switchand fuses and the meter are placed atthat point. If this service outlet is. This Up and Down downstairs, then a pair of wires will befished up to the attic through a sidewall, between the beams. It is reallysurprising the way the electrician canfish his lines up and down betweenwalls and back and forth under theflooring. He will probably take up asingle floor board at the side of the atticand lower a thin steel tape called asnake. He will jiggle this up anddown and maybe try between two orthree sets of beams before he finds a cleardrop; but finally his helper downstairsgets hold of the end of the snake andfastens on his wires which are pulled next step is to run the lines toconnect these two wires in the attic withthe points where the lights are to beplaced. At each point a small round holeis cut in the plaster and lath on the wallor ceiling, large enough to pull the wiresthrough, but small enough so that thecanopy on the fixtures will cover it. 1210 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1211 So they work, the electrician and hishelper, fishing th
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