Home Depot DIY web site

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HD web site for electrical DIY


This is humorous!
to install a ceiling fan if you already have a light they claim its a 1/2 day job for a DIY'r.

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Adding a Telephone Extension
Difficulty: Easy
Time: Start in the morning, and you'll be talking on your new phone extension in the afternoon.

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Recessed Lighting
Difficulty: Medium
Time: Experienced: 1 day; Handy: 1 1/2 days; Novice: 2 days
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Under-Cabinet Lighting
Difficulty: Hard
Time: Experienced: 1 day; Handy: 1 1/2 days; Novice: 2 days
 
77401 said:
This is humorous!
to install a ceiling fan if you already have a light they claim its a 1/2 day job for a DIY'r.
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They left off the how-to part about taking down the light fixture in a 120 yr old house and finding a plastered-in pancake box w/ 2 K&T conductors and a capped off gas nipple in the center.

Oops. :)
 
Don't have time to read it just know

Did they include the baked hard insulation that cracks off when you pulll the wires down from that old ceiling outlet that had an overlamped incandescent surface mount fixture there for 50 years?
 
Home Depot doesn't care about code. I worked there as the electrical specialist for 2 1/2 years and I spent every day telling management to tell untrained employees in my department to stop trying to tell people how to do their own electrical work. I had a huge pile of wire returns because the untrained people insisted on "advising" DIY'ers on what supplies they needed. Home Depot thinks they can give a little two day training on electrical and all their employees are now qualified to give electrical installation advice. What they created was a blind leading the blind situation.
 
jshaw said:
Home Depot doesn't care about code. I worked there as the electrical specialist for 2 1/2 years and I spent every day telling management to tell untrained employees in my department to stop trying to tell people how to do their own electrical work. I had a huge pile of wire returns because the untrained people insisted on "advising" DIY'ers on what supplies they needed. Home Depot thinks they can give a little two day training on electrical and all their employees are now qualified to give electrical installation advice. What they created was a blind leading the blind situation.
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You left out the word arrogant. What they created was arrogant blind leading the blind situation.
 
My goal is to know as much as the HD workers!

It amazes me as to the breadth of knowledge I over hear when I happen to go in there. :rolleyes:

Once I did have to interject, because what the person was telling the customer was so wrong it was actually dangerous.

I like Lowe's better, they don't seem so willing to "advise".
 
Well...well...well...."deep subject eh" I was in a (won't mention any names) "HOME DEPOT" and they sold a customer Carlon round cut in boxes to support the new ceiling fans they just purchased.
 
I was in the electrical dept of Big Orange last night, buying some LV supplies for come CATV and network wiring. I noticed they had a big kiosk of "Home Wiring" kits for the DIY'ers - basically two screwdrivers, a linesman plier and a stripper shrink-wrapped with an assortment of wirenuts. I couldn't help but wonder how many people were off rewiring part of their home armed only with that kit, a DIY book and some helpful pointers from the HD staff. I turn my ears off when I'm there - I can't listen to the cr@p they pass out as "help".

I wonder if they've ever been sued?
 
jshaw said:
Home Depot doesn't care about code. I worked there as the electrical specialist for 2 1/2 years and I spent every day telling management to tell untrained employees in my department to stop trying to tell people how to do their own electrical work. I had a huge pile of wire returns because the untrained people insisted on "advising" DIY'ers on what supplies they needed. Home Depot thinks they can give a little two day training on electrical and all their employees are now qualified to give electrical installation advice. What they created was a blind leading the blind situation.
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Couldn't have said it better!
 
jshaw said:
Home Depot doesn't care about code. I worked there as the electrical specialist for 2 1/2 years and I spent every day telling management to tell untrained employees in my department to stop trying to tell people how to do their own electrical work. I had a huge pile of wire returns because the untrained people insisted on "advising" DIY'ers on what supplies they needed. Home Depot thinks they can give a little two day training on electrical and all their employees are now qualified to give electrical installation advice. What they created was a blind leading the blind situation.
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Home Despot and the other box stores are in a bit of a bind since they market primarily to DIYers. If their employees responded to installation questions from DIYers the way the counter guys at the supply houses do (e.g., "I don't know; I'm not an electrician."), they'd probably sell a whole lot less. I was at another box store yesterday watching an employee and a clueless customer look through a "Wiring Is Easy" book to figure out how to wire up a three-way switch. I don't want to know how it all ended up.

I don't know what the solution is, but one jurisdiction I work in might be on to something. They require a "time of sale" inspection whenever a house is put on the market, and their inspectors are very good at finding electrical work that was done without a permit. If they find any, they then require a licensed contractor to pull a permit, fix any problems, get the work inspected, and sign off on it. This at least cleans up some of the hack work that's out there.
 
ceknight said:
They left off the how-to part about taking down the light fixture in a 120 yr old house and finding a plastered-in pancake box w/ 2 K&T conductors and a capped off gas nipple in the center.

Oops. :)
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Have you been working on my parents house ??? :shock: ;)

J.Harvey
 
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