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Is my electrician dangerous? Please read Doobielicious 06-09-2008
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Posted by Doobielicious on June 9, 2008, 9:44 pm
OK. My electrician has 1 feed for one of my bedrooms and a couple plugs in
hallway. The feed coming from my basement to my 2nd story has a short. They
think the drywall or siding guys screwed into the wire. The circuit was
tripping so what he did was tied the neutral white wire into the breaker and
then tied the black into the neutral bar of my panel. All works plugs/lights
work. I caught this before and asked why he put the black on the neutral bar
and the neutral wire on the breaker. He said he had a short somewhere and
did that to find where the problem is.

So when I was at work I was told by my contractor that the electrical was
fixed up and ready for final inspection. Curious as I am, I decided to take
the cover off of my panel and found that he didn't make the change but that
he put black tape over the neutral wire and back into the circuit breaker
and left the black on the neutral bar.

I called my contractor (not the electrician) and told him what he did and
said that there was no way that this would pass inspection. Am I wrong? Is
this a fix that would pass inspection? Is this a common thing for
electricians to do? This to me seems like a lazy fix, but am not sure if
this presents a hazard.

Like I said everything works in my hallway and bedroom so I am thinking he
reversed his wiring to make things work. So what it appears to me is that
the black wire is hitting the ground wire form when someone screwed the
drywall or siding.

Please offer me some advice and please let me know what I should say to the
electrician when I question him on it. I know he will say hey don't worry it
is safe, but I need to know if it is not safe and if it is not safe why it
isn't safe to do this. That way he will not jerk me around and it would
appear like I know what I am talking about.

I am almost thinking about telling my general contractor that he will not
get paid for my reno until this electrical situation is fixed properly and I
am thinking about getting another electrician to make the fix because I
don't think I can trust this electrician.

Any and all advice is welcome

Thanks in Advance



Posted by kzin on June 9, 2008, 9:50 pm


> I am almost thinking about telling my general contractor that he will not
> get paid for my reno until this electrical situation is fixed properly and
> I am thinking about getting another electrician to make the fix because I
> don't think I can trust this electrician.

If you have a general contractor why are you dealing with the electrician?
Just tell them you want it to pass inspection and let them deal with it.

Posted by Red Green on June 9, 2008, 10:07 pm

>
>
>> I am almost thinking about telling my general contractor that he will
>> not get paid for my reno until this electrical situation is fixed
>> properly and I am thinking about getting another electrician to make
>> the fix because I don't think I can trust this electrician.
>
> If you have a general contractor why are you dealing with the
> electrician? Just tell them you want it to pass inspection and let
> them deal with it.

Technically, the electrician does not work for the homeowner. They work for
the GC. My belief anyway.

Posted by kzin on June 9, 2008, 11:16 pm


> > If you have a general contractor why are you dealing with the
> > electrician? Just tell them you want it to pass inspection and let
> > them deal with it.
>
> Technically, the electrician does not work for the homeowner. They work
> for
> the GC. My belief anyway.

Poor phrasing on my part.

Just tell them, the GC, that you want it to pass inspection and let them,
the GC, deal with it. It in this case being your dubious electrician.

This is what General Contractors are for.

Posted by John Gilmer on June 12, 2008, 11:40 pm


>
> If you have a general contractor why are you dealing with the electrician?
> Just tell them you want it to pass inspection and let them deal with it.

You might want to give your contractor a "Heads Up" on what you saw.

What was described just "ain't right" (i.e.: not safe) and you may consider
dropping a dime on the electrician and ensure that the inspector looks
closely at the work.


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