CHWflorida
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I have never worried about the cost difference. I always think about safety and use common sense.
Ceiling fans and patio covers
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CHWflorida
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It is our job to worry about what home owners and handymen will do.
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Occupation
- Retired Electrical Contractor
CHWflorida said:
Well then you better put a lock and key on everything you do because there is no telling what a handy man will do.
Putting a fan box up may be nice but they may wire the fan wrong or not tighten screws, or.....
You cannot prevent this. If the NEC was concerned about it then there would be an article that says you must use a fan box.
Use a regular box and break off the srew tabs. What will the handy man do then.
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- Massachusetts
CHWflorida said:
Not my job.
The unqualified can mess up anything we do.
peter d
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- New England
CHWflorida said:
Most of use think about safety and use common sense.
But where do you draw the line? Do you wire everything with rigid for safety because it's arguably the safest wiring method out there? Probably not.
CHWflorida
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I knew that statement would get replies. I know that you can't save the world one fan box at a time, I'm just saying, it doesn't cost me anymore money to install a fan rated box, so why not? I know most people on this forum care about the people they work for to some extent. Any chance I have to idiot proof something I will.
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- Massachusetts
CHWflorida said:
Sure.
But why give away what you can charge for?
CHWflorida
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iwire said:Sure.
But why give away what you can charge for?
Trust me, I charge for it. Hence, it doesn't cost me any more.
lordofpi
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- New Jersey
peter d said:
I wish so. We would have work for eternities (although a far shorter work-life due to aches and pains)!
I'm sure everything really was just great until Republic Steel came out with that lousy thinwall, and Sprague Electric and Rohm & Hoss ruined everything with their cheap, chinsy cable assemblies.
"Why son, when I was your age, we wired everything in rigid pipe. Yessir... pure galvanized steel. See, we had to walk uphill, barefoot, with no gloves in 5-degree weather to the steel mill just to pick it up. Then, we'd bend it in our bare hands...."
Try that one out, Chicago!
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lordofpi said:I wish so. We would have work for eternities (although a far shorter work-life due to aches and pains)!
I'm sure everything really was just great until Republic Steel came out with that lousy thinwall, and Sprague Electric and Rohm & Hoss ruined everything with their cheap, chinsy cable assemblies.
"Why son, when I was your age, we wired everything in rigid pipe. Yessir... pure galvanized steel. See, we had to walk uphill, barefoot, with no gloves in 5-degree weather to the steel mill just to pick it up. Then, we'd bend it in our bare hands...."
Try that one out, Chicago!
At least we are up to aluminum. I just finished taking down some 3" galvenized steel and I sure am glad we will be using aluminum to new machine going in place of the one being moved.:grin:
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