Posted on 08/20/2014 1:13:26 PM PDT by EveningStar
Not everyone is great with home improvement projects, as evidenced in this video. Check out what just may be the worst garage door installation, ever. Sure, the garage now has a power door, but the lengths the installer has gone to seem a bit absurd.
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It will clear the inspection by ripping down the wire and calling the garage doors manual open.
Openers pre-installed for future use.
This does not bother me. Since it is plugged into a light circuit, I assume it is protected with a 15 amp breaker or fuse. The power strip is probably only 10 amps. As a temporary circuit it is fine. They might have added a ground fault breaker at the light socket. I would be far more worried about “the law” than about the electricity.
I’ve found houses with 50 amp fuses in 15 amp knob and tube circuits. That bothers me. I’ve seen electrical heaters on carpets. That bothers me. I’ve seen toasters half full of crumbs...
If I need a long temporary extension cord, outside, I won’t hesitate to use a roll of 12-2 with plug/socket pigtails. Ground fault breakers are great for nut job hookups like this.
As long as you are on YOUR side of the main circuit breakers, and your house is not connected to other houses, do whatever you want.
Ping....
Fascinating wiring job.
Try that on 240V. :)
I saw this same level of electrical wiring expertise in Iraq.
That's how it's done in Mexico all the time. There is a tradition that the poor get to steal electricity by draping a copper hook over a hot wire and running a line - consisting of scrap copper wire and old extension cords, to their tiny little 2-room homes. We talk about code in the USA; in border towns you'd be shocked at what passes for code. The Mexican call the hook a diablito, or "Little Devil."
See some pics below:
Um, as a general contractor, I’ve seen many similar wiring jobs, as well as the same quality structural work in some cases. Just when you think you have seen the absolute depths of stupidity, someone comes along to prove you wrong.
Genuine Moron.
“Any moron would see it for how unreliable it is and the fire hazard.”
Don’t be hasty there, “any moron” might be a bit too broad!
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I knew of a guy who had a problem with a neighbors cat coming in his garage at night and sleeping on the hood of his car. He decided to teach it a lesson and left a couple of hot wires dangling just about it. Cat never came back but it left a whole bunch of scratches all over the hood.
It appears the garage did not have a power source. That is not up to the garage door installer. If I was doing the job I would have told the home owner to make sure there is a electric supply in the garage. That being said the installer sure had the “can’t see it from my house” mentality. I will also say you get what you pay for.
The openers look to be installed correctly. I’d bet that installer left with the cords hanging after testing them with his own extension cord..
The patch job? in my industry we call that type of work as being performed by Pizza Pete.. I do computer work, but Pete, well, he’ll do anything between pizza deliveries if it pays.. Normally the type of work you see out of Pete mimics this wiring job.
I hope the homeowner has LOTS of homeowner insurance for this outrageously dangerous Rube Goldberg firetrap.
Years ago I came home from work and my wife said she was getting little shocks from the vacuum cleaner cord - I looked at it and could tell she ran over it with the vac, multiple times - the cord had exposed wire all up and down it!
She's a great cook, though....
We've remodeled two houses and helped my son with his and friends with others.
The level of work done in these places is absolutely appalling.
We've yet to see any home improvement work that was done well or even to code.
My husband and son have done my son's house and the building inspector was really impressed with the quality of the work they did themselves. Mr. mm is a real stickler for doing it well and right.
They don't want you to know that anybody with an IQ over room temperature can easily learn basic wiring principles in about an afternoon. They don't want you to know this because they want to be the "experts".
So they come out with videos like this to scare and ridicule people who might be considering to take on a "do it yourself" electrical wiring projects.
Three words:
Alexander Hamilton Motel
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