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Posted by on June 11, 2008, 4:47 pm
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:43 GMT, "Doobielicious"
>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
>
I'm a licensed electrician. I charge $90 per hour, with a minimum
charge for one hour regardless how small the job is.
I can answer your question in one hour or less.
As soon as I receive your payment of $90, I'll happily answer your
question.
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Jansen Electric
PO Box 8103
San Antonio, TX 78209
We accept cash, checks and money orders.
Or phone in with your credit card number.
1-800-412-8103 (additional charges imposed for using our toll free
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Robert W. Jansen - Senior Company President
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