I don’t know who this Thomas is but he needs to have his fingers duct taped together.
I sent this to my boy who is a journeyman electrician and he said it was a fire waiting to happen.
It looks to me like there is enough extra wire and junction boxes there to wire a two bedroom house.
When I stopped the video and started counting, I see at least 16 freaking junction boxes!
That right there is what ‘seasoned’ (cough) professionals in the business call a “Spaghetti Factory”.
And, yes, it’s a fire on the countdown clock to ignition.
It is a mess, however if all the connections are secured correctly and there are no bad connections, then why would there be a fire problem?
As I understand it, every connection creates heat.
Every mechanical connection has resistance, so…..yes
HOWever, a good mechanical “crush” creates very, VERY low resistance.
Sheesh
When “I know a guy” goes wrong.
Sumbitch. I’ve never run across high voltage wiring that bad. Lots of horribly disorganized low voltage cabling in the wiring closets and computer rooms of retail stores and office buildings back in the day when I used to do PBX installs and data cabling.
Lazy dumb shits wouldn’t remove old cabling, or would use network patch cords 2-3 times the needed length because that’s what they had with them. Saw some atrocious cable management messes. This video is something else,.though. 100% of that shit needs to come out and be redone correctly.
Since I’ve done datacenters as well as wired residential and (one time) commercial, this is absolutely a horror show.
It took me three weeks once to rewire a SMALL datacenter – 12 racks – and I hated every second.
I’m glad it’s over for me.
Never have I ever seen such sheer incompetency. I wonder what an IR scan would show…
Ever tried to figure put an old mine-company home with knob-n-tube, fabric, and romex all wired hot and with pennies in the fuse box?
It’s all great until the sawdust in the walls catches fire…
I, my brother, and my Dad did a knob-and-tube house as a kid (15) across the street from my childhood home, it was built in 1909. The WHOLE HOUSE was on a 20-amp wattmeter that had wingnuts on the face if it! When we rewired, the electric company wanted the meter for their museum, it turned out to be the *oldest* meter they had ever seen! We were happy to donate it to them.
No pennies in the one and only fuse socket !!
I only see one junction box. The rest look like recepticle boxes for switches or outlets.
No building codes at that location. I remember a Taiwan built fishing boat I was asked to look over by a friend. The electrical system consisted of large 480VAC cables joined to smaller ones then smaller, right down to the normal 16 gauge for a 220VAC outlet. Everything was well documented including color changes in each size of wiring. This is how the builder stepped the voltage down from the dock supply to outlets by the resistance drop in each size of wiring. When I opened the main electrical panel the main buss bars were glowing dull red. I told my friend to bail on this one before it burned to the waterline.
Best advice you ever gave him!!
Lotta grow lights in that place
A tweeker’s wet dream to find that in an “unoccupied” house.
I’ve seen worse that that on the streets of Mexico. In the open, hanging off the power line pole. But yeah, I’d trip the main box and just cut all that shit out and start over, it ain’t worth trying to fix.
I bet the guy who did that has a picture and brags about how good a job he did.
“fingers duct taped together”
You misspelled “cut off with a bandsaw”.
Company my wife worked for had channels under a raised floor. For forty years, as new systems/wiring was installed (phone, power, security alarms, fire alarms, ect), NOBODY removed the old because they had no idea where it went or what it powered, so they just laid in new over the old and ignored the rest. It reached a point where there was no more room in the channels for more wire. It became cheaper to build a new building and sell the old one than to redo all the old everything. We knew the wiring was bad, apparently the plumbing (pipes that went somewhere, both for water, heat, and venting) was almost as bad.
That stuff really pissed me off to no end back when I installed low voltage, telephone and data cabling. Even worse when we had to run new cabling (usually cat 5E) through Walker Duct systems under the floor slab for customer like Target and Walmart for their point of sale system upgrades (coming off old IBM 4680 series 4MBit token ring networks) and there was so many dead runs in there (along with mouse shit and piss) that we couldn’t even start without back pulling almost everything already in there. I scrapped a LOT of small gauge copper back in the day.
Stores built in the mid-late 70’s were the worst, because they’d often been through 3 generations of network technology (and the corresponding cabling) when we’d get there in the late 90’s-early 2000’s. Overhead runs (above the acoustical ceiling) were almost as bad in some places, and cabling was strung willy nilly over air plenums and through bar joists.
I see that mess on boats often, the bigger the boat the bigger the mess. I have several types of line tracers.
Always saw that on Broward yachts. New stuff on top of old mostly because the old stuff would be secured inside a bulkhead and the owner didn’t want to pay for tearing stuff open. Hence our saying
“Don’t be a coward, go to sea on a Broward”. After 10-12 years and several owners the value would have dropped enough that money would be spent on a proper refit. That and it would be hard to find a captain (a sober one anyway) that would take the job.
Short version.
Bar I worked at about 1985 had a bunch of wiring done by the rich asshole owner’s father.
One breaker box was hot to the touch n romex runs were scattered a bit like spiderweb.
Shit happened 1 day, fire dept came, took a look & then called the inspectors.
Hehehe. Electricians took over a month to unfuck it and put in new up to code wirining & breaker panels.