Re: SIMPLE electrical job. Cost via electrician? chg direct-wire to plug & socket

On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:20:48 +0000 (UTC), dkcombs@xxxxxxxxx (David Combs)
wrote:

In article <6prqi7911pk3donds779vkj87ll84lnikq@xxxxxxx>,
krw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <krw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Your furnace is plugged into an outlet? Never seen that.

The $.50 outlets (are they that expensive now?) aren't all that bad for places
where there are few insertion cycles. Kitchens, hallways, and the like where
they're used a lot, should have spec or even hospital grade outlets.



Not now -- but that situation (furnace pluged into an outlet) is what
I *WANT* -- so when the neighborhood power goes out, and it's 15F outside,
I can UNplug the furnace from the wall and PLUG it into a heavy-duty
extension-cord that goes to my little electric generator -- which I'd
run for half an hour every two hours or so to keep the house warm and
(via 2nd extension cord to the generator) the refrigerator cold.

Why don't you just do the job right?

.

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