# Power To the People, or at least the dishwasher

Over the past couple months, I've been working on a project to run an electrical cable from the power box in my garage to my dishwasher.

Back in 2015, we tore down a wall in the kitchen and put an island there. Unfortunately, the electrical line for the dishwasher came down from the ceiling, but I didn't realize it. So it's been on the same breaker as the rest of the island and a bunch of outdoor outlets (which was the poorly-implemented doing of some previous owner and led to random power outages to all of those areas, sometimes with a tripped breaker, but usually just no power).

I know that the dishwasher should be on its own breaker, and so this work was on the eventually-get-to-it list. Skip six years to an outage that lasted a couple hours when we were a little behind on dishes, an extension cord stretched across our kitchen floor, and a pandemic where there really wasn't a lot else to do, and suddenly eventually is now.

For once, I remembered to take pictures, so my toil is now fodder for your amusement.

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The reason that the dishwasher was sharing a breaker with the rest of the island outlets is that the cable that supplied the dishwasher came from the ceiling, and down through the wall. Given that the wall doesn't exist anymore, there wasn't an opportunity to use that cable. Instead, I had to run a new cable from the power box to the dishwasher.

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