Local supply house nightmare

[bcfoster]

Being that this is a huge safety issue I have inclosed a couple of pictures taken from a local plumbing supply house which asked me to come out and look at their current electrical situation and give them a quote on what ever needs to be done to bring everything up to code. I couldn't get pictures of the above areas of the drop ceiling but there are open taps minus anything except duct tape around the conductors, extension cords uses instead of mc cable or emt, open light fixtures, romex used in a commercial application, and too many other things to list.

Open tap coming from drop ceiling

romex ran across the sales office supported by a wire coat hanger through a air vent.

Where the "bootlegged" power from a switch box to run to office cubicles in the sales floor.

 

[realolman]

All right wise guy... when were you in my house?

 

[macmikeman]

Shoot this is a plumbing supply house. Needs some of those white hard 90's in the first picture, and maybe a big 4" cast pipe hanger for support in the second picture.

 

[charlie tuna]

we were once called to a newly c.o.ed office interior -- a building maintainance worker was shocked in the ceiling while looking at a 20 amp branch circuit feeding a 50 amp copy outlet??? two guys related to the electrical contractor wired the space. this was a top of the line law office space. the building owner called us in to evaluate the new installation. i took six men and teamed them in two man teams to look thru the full floor installation. they would call me when they had a code issue. we took 200 photos in four hours. the law firm owner was sitting on his power conditioner in the computer room when he asked me "whats the bottom line?" -- "what are we talking about here?"....... i asked him if he could find a place to move into four a month or two?? i then explained to him -- the power conditioner that was supplying his main computer system -----was not grounded!! and most of his office equipment was in the same condition!!!

these two guys were spanish could not communicate with the english speaking normal inspector. their boss called the chief inspector and explained the problem -- they were then assigned a spanish speaking inspector who eventually gave them a C.O.. never had i seen such violations of the code. the main confrence room recessed lights were wired with extention cords -- all colors and shapes! i later talked to a subcontractor who explained that he had lost a dozen extention cords on this job! ever see one two inch raceway carry every branch circuit to a very busy 12 x 12 x 4 junction box?

the repairs required to be completed --after hours -- and i inspected each area the next morning........... it took them about a week to understand i was inspecting "everything". i bid this job originally at 160k and they did the job for 130k. the power conditioner was in the E.C. bid and was near 30k! i thought this contractor missed the power conditioner? it cost him about fourty thousand extra to meet the building owner's requirements. ten grand was my inspection time -- and i was easy on him!!! the problems haunted this space for years -- many things continued to surface until this space was demo-ed and re-built.