Electrical Wiring Why do people do this stuff?

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Misc pictures of crap work that is being done in the real world.

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Education

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• electrical wiring
• electrical training

[TreyMhn]

the jod went on today this old hosue I have 7 Electrical Panel and Turn off the main only one room wnet off and the Rest of the hosue stay on I got go back tomere take some pic for you take care

[sparkyUonline]

@TreyMhn Cool,look forward to seeing them!

[dachroof]

I think your videos are great. You show what everyone ele's work looked like before you arrived. Why not show what it looks like after youu are done. Lets get a side-by-side comparison of before and after. We know what WRONG looks like. Show us what RIGHT looks like.

[sparkyUonline]

@dachroof I don't always complete the work my self,so I am not there when it is completed. I have been uploading a few how to's on some new work that I have done.Look for more "new" work videos soon. I've been busy working on a project out of town this last moth so I really don't get a lot of computer time.

[pmgodfrey]

Soooo.... What's wrong with adding a sub panel? It saves wiring hundreds of feet of wire. I have two 125 amp sub panels -- one in the garage and another 40 feet from the main panel for all lighting and outlets in the basement. Both run off of a 60 amp breaker.

My main 200 amp panel is full to capacity. I did all the wiring and it's all done correctly. It would pass code.

[sparkyUonline]

@pmgodfrey If a person does their due diligence and gets load calcs then ok. I run into homes and commercial buildings where they just keep adding on till the panels get overloaded.

[SilentServiceCode]

Please increase the volume of your audio when you upload your video... I cannot hear you.

[watching538]

it is very hard to hear on your videos can you speak louder?

[sk8er4ever0101]

mainly work on the walls, but can just as easily replace outlets/switches. Just replaced one today not attached to the box, but wired into an entertainment center and taped... i lold, not even the courtesy to throw some electrical tape around the damn thing.

[DISTURBEDINTEGRITY]

on one 12 /2 wire and had covered it all up . truly i reported him and am glad i still believe in safe wiring enough to keep a family safe

[DISTURBEDINTEGRITY]

i was wiring a house every thing was wired right i used arc fault breakers in bed rooms and although its not required to in children's rooms i use a added gfci in case they stick some thing in it every thing past the pre inspection then when i came back to the house i was working on the home owner de sided that he was going to change my work and dry wall over it so the inspection would not show his short cuts he had cut a bunch of the lines out and scrap the wire and run his bath and 3 bedrooms

[WizzRacing]

The switch box is the best. Lets use the 14ga ground for the switch leg and see if we can kill someone, cause we bought 12/2 and not 12/3. I don't know how people can screw up 3 ways. There is a damn picture on the box! Just remember the damn line side neutral goes to fixture. The rest is simple to figure out.

[WizzRacing]

@pmgodfrey Well for one the total rated amps for 2-125 amp sub panels is 250 amps. The main is rated at 200 amps not including what is being used in your main service. You might want to check the wire size at your weather head. The total rated amps "can not" exceed the line side wiring size feeding all of it. Even if you only use 200 amps, you have the "ability" to use 250+ amps, thus the main service has to be sized correctly. Not including any motors or compressor's start up loads being added.

[NorthTheMaker1]

his wording sucks ....all he does is slam and degrade ...its obvious its done wrong

[easterlingderek34]

Totally know what he means. Some of these are Bad but i bet he has had worse. I Frame houses but my Great uncle is a qualified Electrician. We learned a lot from family about it and we do wiring on occasion. We repaired a switch in a closet and when i pulled it out. It blew me a way that the house was still standing. They had stripped the Hot 2 inches and then took a second wire and laid it beside it and wrapped it with electrical tape. I wish people do it right as well.

[michaelalanlee]

Some amazing examples here. I enjoyed watching. I have seen a lot of weird wiring in old houses and I am not even a professional. The main point is not that the previous work was stupid or careless, but that it was unsafe does come through in the video but perhaps could be emphasized more. Wiring to code may be a pain sometimes, but 98% of the time, the result is safer and lasts forever. Helps a person sleep at night.