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<p>Wow, horror stories abound. Must be Halloween coming??<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/26/2016 7:39 PM, John McCaskill
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<div>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. </div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">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". </div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Lunatics. </div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">John<br>
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On Sep 26, 2016, at 6:25 PM, via Woodworkers <<a
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<div>Happens to us all. My first house had a bathroom drain
made of.......wait for it.......DUCK TAPE!!!!<br>
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<div>so......replace floor.....replace subfloor.......and we
will not discuss what they used for wiring......just
know.....it was not wire.<br>
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<div>Karen<br>
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<b>Sent: </b>Monday, September 26, 2016 11:03:47 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Woodworkers] Joe Johns and the tale
of a bathroom<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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. </span></p>
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Woodworkers [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Bigelow via Woodworkers<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 25, 2016 11:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sawdusters<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Woodworkers] Joe Johns and
the tale of a bathroom</span></p>
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<p>Maybe I need to hire Joe to come work on my project.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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...</p>
<p>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...</p>
<p>Glad that's almost done now.</p>
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