Never Saw This Particular Bad Hack Until Today

macmikeman

I get a call from a woman who wants to have her mother's house repaired after her mom had the two brothers do a bunch of Handy work for her. I find all the usual stuff- you know like speaker wire used for wiring fixtures and switch legs and zip cord fished into walls for ceiling fans, stuff like that. But I go looking for the load center and it's nowhere. Sis gets a hold of mom on the phone and I gotta go get a drywall saw out. Found it completely buried back inside a wall and drywalled over. No cover on the panel. Guess these jokers figure that the circuit breakers would never need reseting after all the great work they done.

Royal-T

I think that might beat ours from yesterday with the metal box, double switched metal device and newspaper stuffed in it for insulation!

220/221

You GOTTA start carrying a camera.

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Magnettica

sounds brutal

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tdavis

I found these yesterday, I like finding fun stuff

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sniperelectech

thank god for camera phones

chris n

I found these yesterday, I like finding fun stuff

Looks like my house used to. You would have thought that whoever ran the yellow wire would have addressed the other mess.

Magnettica

If I had to guess, I would guess that the same person who did the bootleg splice also did the new #12 wiring. The reason I say that is because look at the way the new wiring is run. Not neat and about to kink up and whatnot. Neatness says a lot about the level of experience in any job.

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james8199

I'm doing a job now that's pretty similar, DIY thought he could gut and rewire house himself It was a nightmare . I wish I would have taken pics to show you guys, open air splices everywhere, 2 in. hole where the 200A se came into the house above the panel with no silicone no duct seal, nothing to plug the hole, took a pair ( I think) of jumper cables and split them, coming out of a 40A dp breaker to feed a sub 3 ft. away.

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Magnettica

Jumper cables?

Now there's something I've never seen before!

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james8199

Yes, alligators cut and wire separated, looped from the bottom of the main panel to the sub. I wish I had taken some pics, he even had the black&decker home wiring book....

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chris n

If I had to guess, I would guess that the same person who did the bootleg splice also did the new #12 wiring. The reason I say that is because look at the way the new wiring is run. Not neat and about to kink up and whatnot. Neatness says a lot about the level of experience in any job.

They had 1 (one) staple at least.

tdavis

All of the wires, including the new 12/2 are now gone! My electrician yanked everything and started over. It's all pretty now. with more than one staple even.

why would somebody think, "oh that looks great, good job!"

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jrclen

What? Those splices are in a box. A big wooden box. HO just didn't get around to squirting silicon into those unused openings yet and putting the cover on.