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Posted by RBM on June 9, 2008, 10:06 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
For one thing, as of the 2005 NEC, all bedroom wiring should be AFCI
protected. That situation would trip an AFCI breaker. I would question the
electrical inspector regarding no AFCI protection, and certainly what the
electrician did is improper and potentially dangerous
>
>
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