How can JOE Electrician do this?

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WV Sparktition

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I had posted this string earlier, but i jus got the pictures off my digital cam. We had to upgrade this, and ended up making this a j Box area with j boxes hung on the joists



This is the panel, under a house, which is a 20 so fuse box



this is the heighth under the house where the panel was, a whole 38 inches high, which u had to crawl about 6 feet from an entry way to get to that panel


This is the meter, which was mounted 6 inches above a concrete porch built after mounted.
Why do idiots do this?



This is the rotting floor supports under the house, maybe the open sewer drain above the wheel is contributing to this problem...That cant be healthy...
 
This type of butchery is found daily.If not for this service work would be boring at best.I like the tape on the single conductors ant the multiple cable entries into the box through one connector.Hope the HO is addressing the rotted timber that are seen or all that upgrade will soon be butchered itself when things fall in :shock:
 
Re: How can JOE Electrician do this?

WV Sparktition said:
I had posted this string earlier, but i jus got the pictures off my digital cam. We had to upgrade this, and ended up making this a j Box area with j boxes hung on the joists



This is the panel, under a house, which is a 20 so fuse box



this is the heighth under the house where the panel was, a whole 38 inches high, which u had to crawl about 6 feet from an entry way to get to that panel


This is the meter, which was mounted 6 inches above a concrete porch built after mounted.
Why do idiots do this?



This is the rotting floor supports under the house, maybe the open sewer drain above the wheel is contributing to this problem...That cant be healthy...
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I think i would just get back in the truck and go home.LOL
 
We placed a panel in the living room, directly above this old panel, and put the meter back to back outside above the old one, but at proper level. Put a nice riser and fixed the electrical problem. The rot is another story.....
 
Maybe it was this guy who did that job???

A carpenter who keeps his clothes clean by working in the nude was arrested after a client returned home early and found him building bookcases in the buff.

He told officers he stripped before crawling under the client's house to do electrical work because he didn't want to soil his clothes, police said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/22/naked.carpentry.ap/index.html


....and people honestly think we ECs charge too much?

LMAO....brings new meaning to "carpenter's crack"!
 
Kudos for you for fixing it. I would have turned tail and ran the opposite direction as fast as I could. The whole place looks like a dump in need of demolition to me.
 
Thought you would get a kick out of this.

Thought you would get a kick out of this.





Fair grounds inspector didn't catch this. Said everything was safe for the fair. This is where the workers camp for the time the are there.
 
In the old codes there was an exception to the 6.5 foot headroom rule for residential services. I suppose this would allow the service to be installed in a crawl space. I am glad that exception has been eliminated. Meter base height is regulated by the power company, not the NEC, so that may have at one time been a perfectly legal installation, except for the poor workmanship.
 
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