Answer: Well, first off, I could say that you should have gone to Home Depot, but I digress.
Your first mistake, Mr. Do-It-Yourself, was in believing that Oxmoor House would spend money on the kind of editing that needed to be done to be sure that little mistakes didn't slip through.
You see, even though you used three different books, they all came from Oxmoor House and they all had some minor errors that resulted in you, the homeowner, wiring up your outlets in a manner that would have any electrician laughing his head off.
What makes things really bad is the fact that these books have been in print, with the same mistakes, since 1975. Oxmoor House just kept putting them out, under different titles, and it's only recently that someone figured out that people were being dangerously misled.
Who knows how many DIY types adhered to the guidelines and diagrams in all that time? Makes you want to take a serious look at your wiring and pull every outlet and switch in the house, doesn't it, in case the people you bought your house from thought that they were "handy" and did all kinds of work themselves. Not even a junction box can be considered safe.
In conclusion, then, let us all avoid the false economy of doing your own electric work based on instructions you culled from a book you picked up at the check-out line in Lowe's. Just because you saw something in a book doesn't mean it's real. Haven't you heard? You can't believe everything you read.
Now let's talk about installing crown molding in the dining room.....
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