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Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 4:13 PM

If It Ain’t Broke…

Hat tip to the three different people who sent this in – do-it-yourselfers rejoice!

Posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 4:13 PM in Remodel Projects | 18 Comments » | Print Print You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Reader Comments: 18 Responses

  1. Haha. Nice.

    Here’s about 25493494 more of these:

    http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/info/0,,20211283,00.html

    Geotpf | March 10th, 2011 at 4:24 pm

  2. Electrical grounds are for wusses.

    greenlander | March 10th, 2011 at 5:17 pm

  3. I recogize that house. Santee isn’t it?

    GameAgent | March 10th, 2011 at 6:03 pm

  4. Jim,

    Would that qualify as an upgrade?

    Consultant | March 10th, 2011 at 6:54 pm

  5. Paging Mike Holmes, we have found another candidate for your program. (it seems in almost every house he finds either hidden junction boxes, or fire traps like was shown here. It is amazing what a poor contractor can do to a perfectly innocent house. The homeowners insurance company would like to know this so they can cancel the insurance. Actually one wonders if the detached garage had a permit pulled to build it. It sort of looks like the garage did not have any other electrical at all.

    Lyle | March 10th, 2011 at 9:38 pm

  6. Code?….I don’t need no stinkin code!

    BottomFisher | March 10th, 2011 at 10:32 pm

  7. Where do you get an electrical cord that stretches from house to house? I can’t even find one that goes from the top of my desk to the nearest outlet :)

    Kathy | March 10th, 2011 at 10:47 pm

  8. Looks like romex… that’s what’s usually carrying the electricity inside your walls. Hence the splices with all the electrical tape.

    Mark | March 10th, 2011 at 11:30 pm

  9. I still don’t understand the splicing, why not just put an outlet in? If you’re willing to splice wire like that, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t be willing to install an outlet. If you’re going to botch a job, you may as well make it look right.

    JordanT | March 10th, 2011 at 11:54 pm

  10. @ JordanT: Cost of outlet $3.85, cost of 12″ of electrical tape 2 cents.

    SD_Coastal | March 11th, 2011 at 5:56 am

  11. I was desperately saying to myself “please don’t let it terminate into a light socket!”

    Alas…

    François Caron | March 11th, 2011 at 6:38 am

  12. this is classic. I was wondering if that was going to terminate in the kitchen mixer or stove.

    Myriad | March 11th, 2011 at 9:55 am

  13. Aloha, from Spudville, Jim! Here I’ll finish the guy’s sentence: “Wow…just wow!”

    My late husband was the best finish carpenter on the planet, and he would be so bummed with this inferior (and dangerous!) work. But really, I can’t stop laughing…classic video!

    Susie | March 11th, 2011 at 10:41 am

  14. Hey, that’s my video! Except, someone else stole it and uploaded it to their account with a lame watermark! Please embed the original (available in 720p) from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKZUFu97vus

    Thanks!

    The Tim | March 11th, 2011 at 1:22 pm

  15. Thanks for updating the post to include the original video, Jim!

    The Tim | March 11th, 2011 at 2:42 pm

  16. I recognize the work, that guy was the electrician for the Hindenburg.

    dacounselor | March 11th, 2011 at 6:12 pm

  17. Partial credit for using electrical tape.

    bubblenerd | March 11th, 2011 at 7:50 pm

  18. Here’s the mothership:

    http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/

    chrisanthemama | March 11th, 2011 at 9:18 pm

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