We were moving some furniture around and banged a dresser up against this outlet while it still had cords plugged into it. Needless to say, running a dresser into cords plugged into an electrical outlet ends up breaking the outlet and faceplate into peices.

So I got an outlet to change. First things first, I need to cut off the power to the outlet at the breaker panel. One method to make sure that you have the right breaker turned off is to plug a radio into the outlet that you will be working on, start turning off breakers one by one and when you hear the radio go off, you know you have it. So, with the radio blasting, Read the rest of this entry »