mark32
Senior Member
- Location
- Currently in NJ
A good friend recently bought a house and asked me to stop by in order to show me around and install some lights. As we walked through the dining room he points to a freshly made opening in the wall, roughly 4' x 4'
My buddy: Yeah, my brother in law and I cut this in the other day but there was that metal wire stapled to one of the studs so I had to splice it.
Me: Yeah, did you splice it in the attic?
My buddy: No, right here and here (He points to two spots on the wall)
Me: Blah, you buried a splice man, that's not cool.
My buddy: Well what was I going to do, the wire wasn't long enough.
Me: Did you at least use metal boxes?
My buddy: No
Me: Haha, now you have no ground on that circuit
My buddy: So, I just plugged in that vacuum and it worked fine.
Me: I'm sure it did, hey if someone came in here with a plug tester it would say that you have an open ground, that means no path back to the panel in order for the circuit to trip if you had a fault in your three pronged appliance.
My buddy: Hey, Bob Villa isn't going to come in here with a tester and check my outlets.
Me: No but an inspector would, you should have waited until I got here man.
My buddy: Okay let's not get carried away with this. Let me show you the lights I want up.......
My buddy: Yeah, my brother in law and I cut this in the other day but there was that metal wire stapled to one of the studs so I had to splice it.
Me: Yeah, did you splice it in the attic?
My buddy: No, right here and here (He points to two spots on the wall)
Me: Blah, you buried a splice man, that's not cool.
My buddy: Well what was I going to do, the wire wasn't long enough.
Me: Did you at least use metal boxes?
My buddy: No
Me: Haha, now you have no ground on that circuit
My buddy: So, I just plugged in that vacuum and it worked fine.
Me: I'm sure it did, hey if someone came in here with a plug tester it would say that you have an open ground, that means no path back to the panel in order for the circuit to trip if you had a fault in your three pronged appliance.
My buddy: Hey, Bob Villa isn't going to come in here with a tester and check my outlets.
Me: No but an inspector would, you should have waited until I got here man.
My buddy: Okay let's not get carried away with this. Let me show you the lights I want up.......