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Do We Have a Forum Member Electrician Here Somewhere?

kiwigtx said:
Skewing slightly off track here....but here is another reason I don't like domestic work.....this was my bosses holiday home on the beach about 3 hours from home.
I had an apprentice with me for the few days we spent doing the pre-wire (first fix). The builder was 'contracted' at the pub after a few beers. The guy was a total dickwad.

I wasn't happy about his scaffold planking layout.....


:lol:
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LMAO... I remember one house I went into rough in they were using a latino framing crew. I go in there and there were no doors framed out at all. Just straight walls. I go into the kitchen area and see a framed box hanging from the ceiling. I was like WTF is that? So I go grab the prints and apparently these morons framed the kitchen island hanging from the ceiling. I called my boss and he called the GC and that guy came over there and ripped them a new one. LOL cheap labor = cheap work.
 
Chicago is a pain in the *** ! They have their own code book, there is way more stuff over the top in their book. Money Money Money !
Suburbs follow mostly NEC ! So if you have a state NEC license you can’t pull permits in Chicago, have to have a Chicago license. Stoped doing work in Chicago 20years ago and stoped going in the city about 5 years ago. Finally got out of the state all together.
 
alsant said:
Actually I think it’s better, and yes it is a pain in the ***. Not that Romex is bad , conduit is just what I learned on. I now live in Arizona so i get see the other side of the coin.
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Conduit bending is a lost art. I hate mc/bx/relock ect. It took the craft out of Craftsman.
Ive run miles and miles of plastibond at the plants, including 6" ridgid. You can tell who is a true craftsman by how many union/ no thread couplings they use in a run, ive seen many use them when screwing 90°s together.
I used to love running the 3-4" rigid, it was an art. Once I became GF, I taught my guys how to do it right. Ive been out of the trade for 20yrs but all my apprentices were promoted quickly to Foremen, GFs and PMs, a lot of them Im still in touch with and they thank me for teaching them the right way to do it.
 
I love bending conduit. I always tell everyone id rather run 600 feet of conduit than install 10 can lights. I hate those damn things with a passion.

I still have 2 of these jewels from when I did residential. If you know anyone looking for one.. lol Stand flat footed and drill through joists.

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kiwigtx said:
.looks like a fire hazard if birds or rodents start nesting around the cables.
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Rodents like chewing the plastic sheathing off our romex. I went into a crawl space behind a wall once for some exhaust work and found wires with the sheathing completely gone on about 4-5' of the wires. The wire was live and laying on top of insulation. I replaced it.
 
kiwigtx said:
Skewing slightly off track here....but here is another reason I don't like domestic work.....this was my bosses holiday home on the beach about 3 hours from home.
I had an apprentice with me for the few days we spent doing the pre-wire (first fix). The builder was 'contracted' at the pub after a few beers. The guy was a total dickwad.

I wasn't happy about his scaffold planking layout.....


:lol:
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

alsant said:
Finally got out of the state all together.
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Lucky bastard :poke:
 
@kiwigtx Roger I imagine I would have enjoyed having you on my jobsites. First off electricians are just great guys to be around , they are the problem solvers for everyone elses screwed up crap and really funny. I ve watched this vid a hundred times and even though Ive never met you face to face, I see you doing this...
 
Mike67 said:
@kiwigtx Roger I imagine I would have enjoyed having you on my jobsites. First off electricians are just great guys to be around , they are the problem solvers for everyone elses screwed up crap and really funny. I ve watched this vid a hundred times and even though Ive never met you face to face, I see you doing this...
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Yes Mike, that is pure Gold there. That would be me and my friends all over doing that stuff. Serious when it comes to work, but we have some laughs along the way.

Thank you Mike. :thumbsup:
 
slepr1 said:
Rodents like chewing the plastic sheathing off our romex. I went into a crawl space behind a wall once for some exhaust work and found wires with the sheathing completely gone on about 4-5' of the wires. The wire was live and laying on top of insulation. I replaced it.
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We are not immune to rodent attacks here....builders normally have to fit anti-rodent/pest mesh in any gaps at the foundation level in houses. I do see rodent damage a lot....but not as common as it might seem.

:xscuseless:

This auto-gate controller exploded because of the ingress of baby snails and garden slugs....someone forgot to silicone the extra holes in the enclosure...(I replaced the entire box eventually)
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This was quite funny too - the source of much ribbing against a former boss. He installed a Brake Resistor for a machine drive ...on a plywood base.....and wired it up wrong. Hence the black scorch marks - it reminded me of that meme for "Electrician Wanted....experience preferred this time"
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Then we have things bigger than rats here at times...
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I'm finding about half the third/ground terminals (round) in the wall outlets in this new construction are plugged with dirt. It must have been some kind of insect pest in the past that used mud to plug the holes. Along with a shop vacuum, I am finding a plastic straw fits in the round ground terminal just right and helps break up the stuff.

I would be curious to know who/what is messing these outlets up. There are no windows/doors yet so any kind of creeepy crawler (winged or otherwise) have free reign around here for now.

I found a new water pump on the shelf here that had the weep hole plugged up by the same mud/dirt concoction.
 
Dibbons said:
I'm finding about half the third/ground terminals (round) in the wall outlets in this new construction are plugged with dirt. It must have been some kind of insect pest in the past that used mud to plug the holes. Along with a shop vacuum, I am finding a plastic straw fits in the round ground terminal just right and helps break up the stuff.

I would be curious to know who/what is messing these outlets up. There are no windows/doors yet so any kind of creeepy crawler (winged or otherwise) have free reign around here for now.

I found a new water pump on the shelf here that had the weep hole plugged up by the same mud/dirt concoction.
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Sounds to me like that was done on purpose by a humanoid.
 
Blue mud daubers...

The Chalybion californicum is an impressive and beautiful wasp, which can be identified by its blue and black sheen, a narrow petiole (“waist” between thorax and abdomen) and its length of 10 to 23 millimeters. Its range extends from northern Mexico to Southern Canada, although it has been introduced in Hawaii and Bermuda as well. It is most common in the Michigan area so if you are desperate for a sighting of this blue mud wasp and black widow killer head to the Great Lakes region! We have them here in Georgia too.. This page needs an update.

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Look for nests like these usually found under and in old cars.. My 66 had a metric ton of the nests under it.
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