Contractor hit a wire while nailing up moulding in kitchen

Posted by ransley on October 13, 2009, 9:43 am

> Had a guy come in to help put up wood moulding in the kitchen. =A0Must ha=

> hit a wire becaue it blew a breaker.
> He pulled the nail out (small nail) and hammered it in elsewhere. =A0Flip=

ped

> the breaker back on. =A0Said don't worry about it.
> Now I lie awake at night fearing its a fire hazard.
> Is it?

I will bet if he knew you would not hold him responsible he would say
fix it, just like he would in his own house. And in the same line of
thought, he doesnt care what he hides from you.

Posted by Master Betty on October 13, 2009, 9:51 am

> Had a guy come in to help put up wood moulding in the kitchen. Must have
> hit a wire becaue it blew a breaker.
> He pulled the nail out (small nail) and hammered it in elsewhere. Flipped
> the breaker back on. Said don't worry about it.
> Now I lie awake at night fearing its a fire hazard.
> Is it?

Chances are nothing will happen but it's possible you could have a short
there. It happened to me. A problem could occur if you have two appliances
plugged into the same circuit and they complete the circuit. If you had two
guitar players or mics in the same circuit and the musicians touched it
could be deadly. You need to open the wall up. Pull the wire out. Cut it and
splice it back together in a control box. Sorry for the bad news but there
is a potential problem. BTW: the same thing happened to me. I destroyed a
computer when I plugged it into a printer on a different outlet.

Posted by Master Betty on October 13, 2009, 9:57 am

BTW: ....get an electrician to fix it.

I read Christopher Young's post and got nervous. :-)

Posted by Tom G on October 13, 2009, 10:16 am

> BTW: ....get an electrician to fix it.
> I read Christopher Young's post and got nervous. :-)

And I would assume that a good electrician could just run a new wire from
the attic down the wall to the outlet or whatever, disconnecting the old
wire. A lot neater than the messy job of opening the wall and repatching.

Tom G.

Posted by DerbyDad03 on October 13, 2009, 10:39 am

ian to fix it.

> > I read Christopher Young's post and got nervous. :-)

> And I would assume that a good electrician could just run a new wire from
> the attic down the wall to the outlet or whatever, disconnecting the old
> wire. =A0A lot neater than the messy job of opening the wall and repatchi=

ng.

> Tom G.

re: "And I would assume that a good electrician could just run a new
wire "

Of course, that's *after* assuming that the wire in question is
nothing more than a point to point run, with access to both endpoints.

In a house that old, with "upgrades" that may not have used best
practices, that wire could run between 2 concealed junction boxes or
whatever.

We can already assume that things weren't done to code since the wire
is assumed to have been too close to the surface, so who knows what
else was done "wrong".

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