Repairing faulty outlet connections on Kalamazoo St. Petoskey Mi
Today I received a referral from my good friend John Harper. John is the one who helped set up this blog.
The customer called and said that there were intermittent power outages in one of the upper bedrooms. So the first thing that I did was plug in my receptacle tester into one of the outlets. Once I did that I noticed that some of the lights in the bedroom suddenly came on.
When I took apart the receptacle the above picture is what I saw. You can see that the person who installed this used the ports in the back of the receptacle. This is an inferior connection. You can see one of the 
black wires began pulling out of the receptacle when I took it out. I went around the room and found four more faulty connections.
In the lower picture you can see the proper way to wire an outlet or any other electrical device. I always use the screws on the side of the outlet and I make sure that the wire wants to wrap around the screw as I tighten it. This method takes more time than what was done above but quality work always does.
