Scrap-Wire Reality Poll... with the Poll!

[lunalilo]

Taking into consideration what the NEC allows versus does not allow, answer the following scenario:

You are finishing a residential wiring job, the homeowners went on vacation for a month, and the tenants are moving in tomorrow.

You're late on the due date, over budget, and your planning on going to your son's final game of the season in a few hours... you need one last 50 foot run from the homeowners panel to their beautiful new stainless-steel range...

 

[Chamuit]

So whadda you wanna do?

 

[George Stolz]

I sure as thunder don't drive around with bite-sized chunks of 6-3 NM in the back, so I guess I'm driving to the supply house, kicking myself for not measuring the darned thing right on my first four trips. That's why I have a half-dozen chunks of 6-3 between 5 and 10 feet long in the barn, waiting to recycle.

Seriously, do we need a second thread like this? :roll:

 

[iwire]

Seriously, do we need a second thread like this? :roll:

This is actually number 3.:roll:

 

[pete m.]

I would tell the owner that, unfortunately, they are gonna have to get a gas range because the POCO just informed me that they ran out of amps.

Pete

 

[480sparky]

Why wasn't the range circuit installed during rough-in? I could see where it wasn't if the run is short and the path is easily accessible (ie, the range is right above the panel in the basement). Otherwise, it's pee-poor planning.

If it's a change-order this late in the game, I have them sign the paperwork authorized the work, then I'm leaving for the ball game. I'll make arrangements to come back with the proper material at a later date.

My answer is "E".

 

[Jim W in Tampa]

Was very poor planning on your part. Had you simply misjudged the run and were 10 feet short i could see making 1 splice . Why should the customer get less of a perfect job because of your mistake ? I might tell customer of the problem and do this as a temporary fix and schedule to return and replace it with 1 piece and at no charge to him. Do you really want another electrician to laugh at your install if they see it ? Your not a handy man your an electrician. We all make mistakes sometimes and simply got to eat them. Last thing i would do is hope they dont see it. Matters not if supply house is a block away or 200 miles. You took the job knowing the distance.

 

[WinZip]

Was very poor planning on your part. Had you simply misjudged the run and were 10 feet short i could see making 1 splice . Why should the customer get less of a perfect job because of your mistake ? I might tell customer of the problem and do this as a temporary fix and schedule to return and replace it with 1 piece and at no charge to him. Do you really want another electrician to laugh at your install if they see it ? Your not a handy man your an electrician. We all make mistakes sometimes and simply got to eat them. Last thing i would do is hope they dont see it. Matters not if supply house is a block away or 200 miles. You took the job knowing the distance.

Well put , congrats

 

[mxslick]

I voted to go to the supply house.

This whole scrap wire thing is a Kobayashi Maru....can someone kill it please? :grin:

 

[jusme123]

is this post going somewhere, justifying something?

 

[lunalilo]

Nope... nowhere at all, I'm new and I'm loving this site! MuHAAHHAHAHAHA!!!!:grin:

 

[roger]

Seriously, do we need a second thread like this? :roll:

No we don't.

Roger