Hat tip to the three different people who sent this in – do-it-yourselfers rejoice!
If It Ain’t Broke…
by Jim the Realtor | Mar 10, 2011 | Remodel Projects | 18 comments
Hat tip to the three different people who sent this in – do-it-yourselfers rejoice!
Haha. Nice.
Here’s about 25493494 more of these:
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/info/0,,20211283,00.html
Electrical grounds are for wusses.
I recogize that house. Santee isn’t it?
Jim,
Would that qualify as an upgrade?
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.
Code?….I don’t need no stinkin code!
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 🙂
Looks like romex… that’s what’s usually carrying the electricity inside your walls. Hence the splices with all the electrical tape.
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: Cost of outlet $3.85, cost of 12″ of electrical tape 2 cents.
I was desperately saying to myself “please don’t let it terminate into a light socket!”
Alas…
this is classic. I was wondering if that was going to terminate in the kitchen mixer or stove.
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!
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!
Thanks for updating the post to include the original video, Jim!
I recognize the work, that guy was the electrician for the Hindenburg.
Partial credit for using electrical tape.
Here’s the mothership:
http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/