I'm torn when I hear about stuff like that. It's guys with good intentions, but lacking knowledge that screw things up like they. They so much want to please, that they get into stuff they know little about. What's worse, is they don't realize how little they know. They probably think they're doing a really good thing.
Handymen, gotta love em
I had a job last week from a rental co that I work for. I get a call that when the tenant turned on the kitchen light they heard a fuse pop but the kitchen light didn't go out. I call the secretary and tell her I will get right over and check it out. I get there and find about 12 wires in a double switch box. Further investigation finds 2 hot ckts in the box plus the dead one. Being so late I go back the next day to sort it out. After toning and metering (3 hrs) I get the problem found. A handyman had run a White wire as a hot:001_huh: , not marking it, and the current rental handyman had hooked a neutral to the hot white thinking it was a neutral. I later found that the sweet liltle old lady who originally owned the rental co employed handymen who seemed nice, whether or not they knew anything.
The secretary and I have conversed a lot about repairs needed and I am slowly getting the properties back in shape. :thumbup: This is not the first major wiring error I have found working for them.
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Here's a nice handy man install. Called in to help remodel old farm house bathroom. They told me the existing exhaust fan used to work, maybe you could fix it. Well they got a new one. Check out the wiring.
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Sometimes even the commercial guys get a bit "handy"
We started adding some lights to a nursing home dining area. Popped a ceiling tile and "voila!" Some interesting conduit runs.
Not a cover one on the floating octagons. No ground pulled in this separated conduit. It used to be caddy clipped to the grid. Someone remodeled this before and did a dandy bit of work.
Unfortunately customer's budget doesn't allow for a re-pipe. We'll just re set the fittings, cover the boxes.
We started adding some lights to a nursing home dining area. Popped a ceiling tile and "voila!" Some interesting conduit runs.
Not a cover one on the floating octagons. No ground pulled in this separated conduit. It used to be caddy clipped to the grid. Someone remodeled this before and did a dandy bit of work.
Unfortunately customer's budget doesn't allow for a re-pipe. We'll just re set the fittings, cover the boxes.
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