[Woodworkers] Joe Johns and the tale of a bathroom

[Mike Hales via Woodworkers]

Wow, horror stories abound. Must be Halloween coming??


On 9/26/2016 7:39 PM, John McCaskill via Woodworkers wrote:
> I was installing a window A/C in an older house I had bought and ran a 
> new 220V circuit. While running it through the attic, I discovered 
> someone prior to me had also run a new circuit. They used brown zip 
> wire (like an extension cord) instead of Romex.  I pulled that out and 
> replaced it. Later, I was replacing a light switch. I traced it back 
> to the breaker box, turned off the breaker, tested the circuit with a 
> voltage tester to make sure it was off, then got shocked when I 
> started to unwire the switch. They had cross-wired two circuits. Don't 
> know till this day how the circuits didn't short out.
>
> I fixed the errors I found. But some years later, after I moved, there 
> was still a fire. The report was "electrical problems in the attic".
>
> Lunatics.
>
> John
>
>   * Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not, then it's not
>     the end.
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 6:25 PM, via Woodworkers 
> <woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org 
> <mailto:woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org>> wrote:
>
>> Happens to us all. My first house had a bathroom drain made 
>> of.......wait for it.......DUCK TAPE!!!!
>>
>> so......replace floor.....replace subfloor.......and we will not 
>> discuss what they used for wiring......just know.....it was not wire.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>>
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>> *From: *"Dave Heitstuman via Woodworkers" 
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>> *To: *"woodworkers" <woodworkers at sawdusters.org 
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>> *Sent: *Monday, September 26, 2016 11:03:47 AM
>> *Subject: *Re: [Woodworkers] Joe Johns and the tale of a bathroom
>>
>> Welcome to my world.  The little bathroom project for the daughter 
>> has also involved the replacement of cheap outlets and switches in 
>> the basement because half of them the cords fall out of and the 
>> switches feel like they are falling apart.  Half of the outlets 
>> barely pull out of the wall, thank god for those new slip on 
>> electrical connectors, and most of them the grounds are barely 
>> twisted together, some with those old crimps and some without.
>>
>> I was changing out some recessed fixtures in the basement Saturday.  
>> Switch was off and as I was pulling the wire out of the old metal 
>> fixture there is the distinct fzzzt sound and the breaker tripped.  
>> Hmmmm rat bastages switched the neutral………..  Took awhile to figure 
>> out how and where they did that.
>>
>> *From:*Woodworkers [mailto:woodworkers-bounces at lists.sawdusters.org] 
>> *On Behalf Of *Steve Bigelow via Woodworkers
>> *Sent:* Sunday, September 25, 2016 11:05 PM
>> *To:* Sawdusters
>> *Subject:* Re: [Woodworkers] Joe Johns and the tale of a bathroom
>>
>> Maybe I need to hire Joe to come work on my project.
>>
>> I swear, today, if I had known where the person responsible for the 
>> remodel rewiring was, there may have been a warrant out for my 
>> arrest. Assault with wire cutters, or something like that.
>>
>> This person obviously wasn't racist, because he had no preference for 
>> black vs white in his wiring. He was pretty much a tight wad with the 
>> wire, though. Two inches inside the box ought to be enough, right? 
>> Nobody will ever need to come back and fix his work...
>>
>> Oh, and apparently it's perfectly fine to have random wire junctions 
>> with no junction box. And yes, those old outlets with the press in 
>> wiring also makes a great three way junction...
>>
>> Glad that's almost done now.
>>
>>
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