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.
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!!