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From: dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: electrical codes
Message-ID: <4134@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 01:13:42 GMT
References: <17905@topaz.rutgers.edu> <196@conexch.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner)
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In article <196@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
>In article <17905@topaz.rutgers.edu> awalker@topaz.rutgers.edu ($   *Hobbit*) writes:
>>I have cause to seriously wonder how many commercial electricians have
>>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
>
>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.

I don't think that the current administration should be held responsible for
much of the poor quality in house wiring.

I bought a new house in New Jersey in 1967 and nearly every connection was
faulty. I first noticed the problem when an outlet overheated while I was
vacuuming the house. There were two 14 ga wires under each screw on the duplex
outlet. The leads were sloppily dressed, hot bare wires accessible etc.
Every screw on all outlets were loose. I doubt that the work was inspected.

When the telephone installer installed the phone he tore out two strips of
ceiling insulation and left it in a heap in the attic.

A guy in my carpool in NJ commented that he thought that a qualified amateur
often does better work that most commercial professional electricians, plumbers,
etc, etc simply because the amateur knows that it is his house and has pride in it.

I agree with him.


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