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View Poll Results: Vote for your Favorite All-Time Code Violation!
1. Flip-Flop Floating Extension 27 21.60%
2. Crimped Cord Cap 1 0.80%
3. NM Connector on Service 1 0.80%
4. The ORIGINAL Can Light 3 2.40%
5. Plumbing Ells at MDP 9 7.20%
6. Bell Wire/RG6 on Recep 8 6.40%
7. Dryer Receptacle Missing 4 3.20%
8. Plastic Anchor Wire Nut 4 3.20%
9. Extension Box Sandwich 19 15.20%
10. Soap Bottle Cord 11 8.80%
11. Gas Line Raceway 5 4.00%
12. Cat Food Can Cover 2 1.60%
13. Cigar Fuse Box 3 2.40%
14. Stuffed 4S Box 8 6.40%
15. EMT Fuses 20 16.00%
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Old 04-23-2009, 07:00 PM   #1
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Some photos get bounced around on the internet so much and so often, they sometimes achieve 'cult' status.

I've collected 15 of the most posted images, and now you can vote for your Favorite All-Time Code Violation!

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Old 04-23-2009, 07:24 PM   #2
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That's quite a nice gallery of my work you've put together there.
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I voted for #5 because I think that it is the worst because whoever installed it should have known better. Most of the rest are DIY classics.

What about the guy using a electric drill …standing on a metal ladder…in a pool? Now that one is a real classic.
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There's so many choices, I can't decide!

I'm stuck between the plumbing L's and the extension box sandwich.
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I voted for #5 because I think that it is the worst because whoever installed it should have known better. Most of the rest are DIY classics.
That's actually a picture I took. It is installed here: http://www.habitatamerica.com/apt_unitedtowers_FP.html
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Here's one you need to add to the list....I found it a while back.

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That's actually a picture I took. It is installed here: http://www.habitatamerica.com/apt_unitedtowers_FP.html
I hope that the "Problem" got fixed.
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I hope that the "Problem" got fixed.
Nope. Been that way since the 1974 inspection sticker.
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Nope. Been that way since the 1974 inspection sticker.
If it works, why fix it?.......right.
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Here's one you need to add to the list....I found it a while back.

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I had to pare the choices down to 15 because that's the poll maximum.
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I had to pare the choices down to 15 because that's the poll maximum.
I get it now...selective perception selections.
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Well since we do commercial work only ill pick the extension rings stacked . 480 nice stuff like it . take care
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Sooo many good... I mean bad choices.
Had to vote for the ol' floating receptacle - #10.
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I went for the floating receptacle too...it is just so stupid!! John, the drywall screw into the feeder is awesome!! I have never seen anything like that!!
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I went for the floating receptacle too...it is just so stupid!! John, the drywall screw into the feeder is awesome!! I have never seen anything like that!!
Yeah, I can't deny that's some ingenuity.

Like, seriously, that guy must've been so smart to think of that.

I know I'd never think to do that, guess I have a lot more to learn than I thought.
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Those are absolutely excellent! Really hard to get it down to one choice, I picked the extension box fiasco, mainly because I've seen similar installations.

It never ceases to amaze me what is gotten away with out there.

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15 is my fav. but I am prejudice as one of my IR thermographers took this.

I really love he drywall screw in the conductor.
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He even has the wire wrapped the wrong direction under the drywall screw. I've never seen a tap installed like that!
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Why is 9 a 'code violation' - What if the conductors stick out of the box 6"?

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Stick out where?

The entire stack is two 4squares facing each other with 6 extension rings between them. How do you even get into the extension rings?

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