Interesting Day- Freakin Carpenters

[Greg Fretwell]

Will, how does EMT keep the rocker from roto-zipping the conductors in the box?
BTW EMT will not stop a determined person with a carbide tipped tool, nor will it stop a TEK screw. I have found TEK screws in raceways in steel framed buildings.

[tdietrich1]

Originally Posted by Greg Fretwell

Will, how does EMT keep the rocker from roto-zipping the conductors in the box?

No conductors in the box.

Or to have fun with the sheetrocker, blank them all off.

tom

[Peter Doane]

Originally Posted by tdietrich1

My arch-nemesis is sheet rockers. They use a 3" rotozip blades to cut holes for outlet boxes, while the rock is in place.

tom

Yeah,... saves them from measuring to locate the cut out. lol

[Paul W. Abernathy]

Come to think about it I did see a situation one time in a municple inspection I was doing where a TapCon screw was driven into the main service riser and well lucky enough it had not contacted anything...YET anyway.

[cyezza]

Originally Posted by pabernathy

and CHUCK as a Electrician in the field working I THANK YOU for the pride in your work. Sad to say with cheap labor and so on it is not always the case as I witnessed day before yesterday.

I am SO thankful the owner wanted to MOVE the recess lights or otherwise it would have been a total mess on the final because we simply would have been hard pressed to find this problem....and possibly before it was too late and this is a 2 million dollar home.

This post was eating at me all day Paul. I value your knowledge and expertise. I work with an Electrician on a regular basis and he has many jobs where the subs just tear up his work.
I did an addition years ago where the electrican ripped into me about my crew screwing through a wire. Before any diagnosis of the problem, he wanted to rip half the finished walls out. Me being the diplomatic carpenter that I am, I told him to check his work 1st. We found that he had a loose wire. So sometimes it isn't always the carpenter.

[Paul W. Abernathy]

lol.....but you have to understand my statement originally...My work was done well before they added these blocks and you also need to know how ANAL I about or electrical projects.

It is one of those things where....you just have to PRAY this is the only incident and it was DEVINE FATE that the client wanted to move the recess and it was found.....and crossing the fingers never hurts.

This is the problem more so in homes that get the home owner who is VERY involved and never have their minds made up from day one, they added these blocks 2 months after rough in inspection was done and who knows what else they added....

[cyezza]

I know Paul, I can understand your frustration. Been throught hat many times. You'll find out soon, Good luck with that one