23 Mar
2004
23 Mar
'04
12:08 p.m.
Seriously, I've seen some terrible wiring done by
so-called
professional electricians,
When I and my now-ex bought the place I'm currently living in, one of
the sellers (informally) told us that her father, an electrician, had
done some of the wiring.
Oy. I know of one electrician I'm never going near. You'd think that
in a case like that he'd be even more careful than for an arm's-length
job, and yet I found things like connections made by twisting and
taping, no wire nut or solder or anything. I haven't looked up whether
such a thing can be code, but I sure hope not. Even my ex found it
rather hair-raising. (She had no particular electrical experience,
just a grasp of the underlying principles; I, on the other hand, did
approximately half the wiring in a several-thousand-square-foot house
my parents built out in BC.)
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