18 Comments

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   Geotpf on March 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm

   Haha. Nice.

   Here’s about 25493494 more of these:

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

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   greenlander on March 10, 2011 at 5:17 pm

   Electrical grounds are for wusses.

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   GameAgent on March 10, 2011 at 6:03 pm

   I recogize that house. Santee isn’t it?

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   Consultant on March 10, 2011 at 6:54 pm

   Jim,

   Would that qualify as an upgrade?

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   Lyle on March 10, 2011 at 9:38 pm

   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.

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   BottomFisher on March 10, 2011 at 10:32 pm

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

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   Kathy on March 10, 2011 at 10:47 pm

   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 🙂

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   Mark on March 10, 2011 at 11:30 pm

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

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   JordanT on March 10, 2011 at 11:54 pm

   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.

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    SD_Coastal on March 11, 2011 at 5:56 am

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

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    François Caron on March 11, 2011 at 6:38 am

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

    Alas…

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    Myriad on March 11, 2011 at 9:55 am

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

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    Susie on March 11, 2011 at 10:41 am

    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!

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    The Tim on March 11, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    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!

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    The Tim on March 11, 2011 at 2:42 pm

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

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    dacounselor on March 11, 2011 at 6:12 pm

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

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    bubblenerd on March 11, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    Partial credit for using electrical tape.

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    chrisanthemama on March 11, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    Here’s the mothership:

    http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/