I put in a new $600 portable air conditioner in a bedroom that was formerly an office. The room has NO ventilation but does have a window. Last quote 10 years ago was $6000 to upgrade. The probem was it blew out the socket and shut down the string of 2 more sockets. I got an AFCI socket which I’d never heard of. As it turns out, these people of #*#*# are going to Home Depot, filling up a whole flatbed of shit, then walking right out with it. So the place was gutted like some apocalypse thing. All I want is a damn socket and these fuckers stole them all. Also I was told just buy packs of them online for cheaper. Apparently, the nearby Walmart also went out of business for that same reason. Fuckers were getting off the freeway, looting, then returning to the freeway. Maybe do something about crime dipshits? Anyway, they had like only 5 outlets and they were in these weird containers with alarms on them. Never seen such a thing. Elsewhere the items had these bikelock-looking plastic things with alarms where you can’t even get the damn things off the hanger without help.

Fucking thieves man. That’s why there are 10 commandments against stealing. Once people let that go, it’s PRE-FLOOD days again. Start farming out the punishment to Islam. Once some hands are getting chopped off, that will clear that shit right up.

Anyway, after installing the ACFI, it was still not working. After getting help from a woman with a lot of experience in home improvement with nice cleavage, the simple problem was the 3rd socket in the line just needed to have the reset button pushed. So that’s an embarrassing solution, however, the socket had this (6) socket thing covering it hiding the button. I had pushed it on the 2nd socket in the 3 socket chain. Additionally, the breakers hadn’t flipped at all at the control panel and I have a 1970s electrical panel.  Once that was figured out, you DO have to push the reset on a new ACFI if it’s wired correctly. My tools are off the hook now and I have a Klein Tools electric socket tester that confirmed they’re all wired correctly. I had previously rewired (4) GCFI sockets (with no experience and youtube videos) in the last several years.

My home improvement experience was zero before I was gifted a drill. Then I’ve spent 3 years building up my epic tool collection. No name brand stuff really (gearworks/greenworks?). etc. So I’d suggest giving it a shot with starting out with an electric drill and youtube.

I’ve replaced a water heater, dishwasher, sockets, built a fish tank with only piping, fixed a washer, created a solar power system DYI.