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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: electrical codes
Message-ID: <196@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 15:45:02 GMT
References: <17905@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
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In article <17905@topaz.rutgers.edu> awalker@topaz.rutgers.edu ($   *Hobbit*) writes:
>I have cause to seriously wonder how many commercial electricians have
>really *read* these.  A hospital near me recently built a new wing that's been
>plagued ever since with electrical fires.  Just the other night I found an
>
[...]
>I have seen good installations with nice neatly-dressed-back wiring too, and
>can't understand why there is so much variation among the work of tradesmen
>who are all supposed to have read the same documents.  There's no way in hell
>I'm going to let them anywhere near the wiring in *my* [hitherto theoretical]
>house...

I think it all depends on what you mean by "commercial electricians".  If 
you are referring to *UNION* electricians, you can rest assured that
they know the National Electric Code forward and back.  You see, in
order to become a member of the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, you would have to work days and attend night school for
four years studying not only code, but lots of theory too.  I would be
willing to wager that the "neatly-dressed-back" wiring you have seen
was installed by a union shop.

Unfortunately, with the sentiment of the present regime in the White
House non-union labor has become very prevalent.  This seems to be the one
common failing of our society: The lowest bidder gets the job; quality
isn't an issue.


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