Hey guys,
Well, I am nearly finished with putting in the new Romex cable, the proper one for the job here - 10-3 with ground. Well, when I opened up the panel, I found a real mess there. I guess a guy who worked for the city utility department, or something like that, lived in the house previously. I assume he is the one who did the "rewiring." There I found grounding wires going into the neutral buses, and neutrals going into the grounding bus. They were mismatched all over the place! Plus, for the range and the heater unit, I found the same scheme as the previous one. He was using 10-2 on both, with the neutral acting as the other hot. I believe it is against the code to use white neutrals as hots, unless they have been properly remarked with black...anyway, it's a real mess, and I don't know if I wanna do all of these circuits myself. I worked very hard tonight....let me know what you think of all of this. BTW, if the neutral and the grounding bus in the panel are bonded together in the panel itself, (I believe they are) why can't neutrals go into the grounding bus, and vice versa?
