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We looked at a job today, customer called and said, "I need a short piece of pipe run and a few short wires ran, just a little job."

What we found was a Landscape contractor, you may know some of them, the high school drop out ones, with a vast knowladge of everything, they tried to repair an existing underground run, so they dug it up, and ran new PVC, but pulled the old wires in, then tied a string to the short run, and then told the customer to call an electrican!, the electrician that did the orginal job refused to touch the mess, when we went to look, we called the landscape guy, he went on to describe how he did the run, and when I asked about a permit he said, why would anyone need a permit, It's not rocket science.
 
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A few years ago I was called to a simular set of ones like that.

Landscape contractor does a some concrete work right- thought they could move to doing FOUNDATIONS. And ELECTRICAL. So this set of winners figure they'll do a service on their own - they botch it, burn customers computers and reffer when they re-connect the service drop - YES LIVE! Swapped the neutral. Owner calls us for a service call to correct it, and get the power back on. So I start with a clean slate that very night on emergency rates, get a permit right before the cut off time that afternoon with an inspection the next day - the landscaper clocked out went home.... Next day the Inspector shows up - sees the new foundation - green tags my service - red tags the building, and calls the CSLB.
 
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A few years ago I was called to a simular set of ones like that.

Landscape contractor does a some concrete work right- thought they could move to doing FOUNDATIONS. And ELECTRICAL. So this set of winners figure they'll do a service on their own - they botch it, burn customers computers and reffer when they re-connect the service drop - YES LIVE! Swapped the neutral. Owner calls us for a service call to correct it, and get the power back on. So I start with a clean slate that very night on emergency rates, get a permit right before the cut off time that afternoon with an inspection the next day - the landscaper clocked out went home.... Next day the Inspector shows up - sees the new foundation - green tags my service - red tags the building, and calls the CSLB.
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i only had a few bad experiences with landscapers around here. the bad ones cut UF cable and hide the evidence inside of that black lawn sprinkler pipe and bury it and go home or whatever. spent hours to find it. usually they run the pvc conduit for low voltage lights and they normally do it right. sometimes they forget to glue
 
Ahhh....landscrapers.

90% of our home inspection reports include the landscapers handiwork...running the timer into an existing breaker lug.

I've repaired tons of damage done by them. MMany times they will trench thru the conduit and just splice and bury the mess. It may work for a few years but somebody's gonna have to trace it, dig it up and fix it.

This was one of my favorite landscaper installations in a transformer/timer.

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Ahhh....landscrapers.

90% of our home inspection reports include the landscapers handiwork...running the timer into an existing breaker lug.

I've repaired tons of damage done by them. MMany times they will trench thru the conduit and just splice and bury the mess. It may work for a few years but somebody's gonna have to trace it, dig it up and fix it.

This was one of my favorite landscaper installations in a transformer/timer.

Electrical002.jpg
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i cant really tell whats wrong. are the holes at the bottom a part of the problem? do you have a picture of the same installation but not as close
 
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i cant really tell whats wrong. are the holes at the bottom a part of the problem? do you have a picture of the same installation but not as close
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they used a plastic wall anchor as a wire nut.
 
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