Talking to a friend who owns a small electrical contracting outfit, he hired a guy who said he was a commercial journeyman electrician, my friend put this guy and a 1 year helper to wire 2 1700sft tract homes basic install, the JM did not know the basic installation of a residential project, ie. 2 small appliance crkts. bath gfcis. did not know about arc fault brkers. he ran seperate crkts for lights and recpts, used all #12 Romex (not required by city for all crkts) instead of #14 and #12 romex, meter base @ center @ 6' 10", the POCO requires the MB between 6' and 4' to center, he srewed up the job. My friend had to spend time and correct all this, he found out on a walk thru with JM. Now the JM did know commercial and is fast and knowlegable in commercial, zipped thru a small lease space, all green tags. did some troubleshooting on some pole lts found problem in no time. When my friend mentioned the houses to him, he said "Ah man residential, man piece of cake". Well it turned out differant than a piece of cake. What, are we getting now one dimensional electricians, that only know one phase of the trade, instead of all phases, Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Construction and Service. Your thoughts please.:-?
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