Added another electrican to my hate list.

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brantmacga

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Whoever did this, there is a special place for you down below.


There is literally two inches between the top of this box and the metal roof above.

What you can't see in the pic is that its 12' above the floor, and the only way to access it is between two walls that are 16" apart, and you can only get about 24" to the side of it; not directly underneath. The camera is just above the grid ceiling, and you can't see the wall just behind me; how they installed this to begin with i'll never know. I'm thinking ferrets were involved. Having a problem w/ the circuit going through here; looks like it's going to be cut-out completely and something surface mount on the wall below will replace it.

Pipe on outer wall is power in, and the box rests on a piece of conduit going down the concrete wall.

Again, if you remember doing something like this in tallahassee, fl about 15-20 years ago, I hate you.
 
Not trying to defend the installation of it, but maybe it was just fine 15-20 years ago, and in the time since then other stuff like the walls were built around it.
 
480sparky said:
Not trying to defend the installation of it, but maybe it was just fine 15-20 years ago, and in the time since then other stuff like the walls were built around it.
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"in-time" would've been later that day.

this is a chain restaurant we work for, and these buildings go from dirt to hamburgers in two months. this building is all original.
 
any way to put a jake on the pipe in the wall to come into the back of a forword facing box cutting off a little of the pipe exposed on the wall?

seems kind of strange to pipe all the way up the inside of the form, then right back down the outside of the wall.

just sounds like something got changed in the middle of the stream, like he wasn't told the wall was going that high? many times the concrete guys will set the pipe in the form, like when we leave short sections of pipe for block layers to put in as they get higher, don't like to allow someone else to set the pipe, but what are we going to do, baby sit the blocklayers/form setters till they get the wall all the way up? and I have had a few times where they didn't tighten the coupler and it came apart in the pour. but then it gets run exposed.
 
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