Electrical Contractor Failures - Trade Tips

this morning I'm going to show you a few things with our electrical now this is not to bad-mouth an electrician or a mechanical company that can I'm going to say who they work curious who had uses contractors we do have a website where we have listed some of our contractors there will obviously be two electricians listed for this reason but maybe we'll give them a rating of some sort so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to walk you through from the main panel just through parts of the house and show you some things that you should look for before you call out your inspector or pay your electrician ground rods you see here should be buried in the ground this should not be sticking up should be below grade it's junk in the bottom of this thing not okay another thing got to check these wires this one here holds right out it's loose and I think you can see the other problem with this panel without me pointing it out the grounds they didn't have the right size bolt so they just simply I don't even know whatever this is absolutely positively unacceptable our electrical did not pass the main panel back here where we have just a random ground wire that is sticking it out of the back of the air conditioning unit again magnet passed inspection and we have our box who are AC units here and we follow that through here through where the wires are coming through the masonry notice this wire is just rubbing against this metal in the masonry and it's actually already wearing into the wire itself this should be sleeved these should be sleeved everything should be sleeved going through the masonry to protect it this is not gonna pass I'm here you can see that wire is anchored to the studs as it goes through now let's just follow this wire nothing whatever reason they did not anchor this one to anything all the way out just let it hang where this one is properly anchored down here if you look at that wire you'll see where the strippers actually cut into the wire that is not going to pass because it's basically weaken the wire and it's cut the wire my six-year-old and the strip wire without indenting the wire yeah this does not pass this right here's our air conditioning set panel the other thing that we've run into on these is there should be some sort of grease in these fittings on all the electrical fittings it's not 100% necessary where there's copper but none of our panels where the fittings were done using that type of electrical grease I'm not a hundred percent sure if you can mix the neutrals in the grounds right here these probably grounds but this this one here is just a mess mainly because these wires were cut cuz they were stripped so the whole thing thing has to be cut back rewired hopefully we have enough slack here to get it work this is not electable related but it's the same company see here a broken this corner this vent cover is broken when they installed it and there's one good reason why this won't pass inspection mr. spider here has done a nice little cave back in that hole so that's gonna have to be replaced same company non-electrical awesome workmanship the thing these lights are great to have we have them all the way through our crawlspace and this is not something the electrician did but something the electrician was supposed to check I've installed outlets on each piece so you can plug something in if you're working underneath the house there should be a ground fault for that circuit there's not the main panel inside the house is not the main panel to the house this is the main stuff you know so with that being said there's a few problems here there are absolutely no arc fault breakers in this panel they're just all standard breakers everything in a room where there gonna be people gathering sleeping or doing anything has to have an arc fault protection on and the other thing is the grounds and neutrals are mixed cannot have a ground and a neutral sharing the same spot and you really can't even have the neutrals doubled up so if the neutral is doubled up that's also not okay because this is not the main panel of the house and is a sub panel the grounds should actually all be on a separate plate than the neutrals and I'm not meaning a separate plate here and here this entire ground wire should have been pulled over here and stuck into probably a longer version of this bracket back here that it's just one long bar that all the grounds would go into and then the neutrals would have plenty of spaces to go over there without doubling up so nothing back here is wired correctly none of this none of this is wired correctly it's neat and tidy looking but I mean indict it doesn't pass if correct correct work it's not been done the read of lack feed wires on this panel should also be reversed regi on right and black on left this outdoor outlet looks fine but if you plug something into it nothing's gonna happen because there are no wires running to the salad it was just for whatever reason skipped so that outdoor outlet is what we call a dummy outlet because the dummy wired it there see how they wired in the vent plug for the vent over our range that is self-explanatory unacceptable there should be an outlet there there should not be a hole even if that were okay that should be fire I mean this is just unbelievable now we have the dryer hookup over here this is the washer hookup and you would think if this were on its own way it would be fished in from the bottom seeing how the wires coming down from the top guessing that that is jumped off of just a regular service outlet at the top that doesn't pass code because the washing machine itself has to have some dedicated 20 amp circuit here is a nice bucket full of a bunch of the outlets and I had done the outlets but the attrition was supposed to check our work the main problem that we have here with these alice is that it's nice and new as they are they aren't tamper resistant and apparently this is news to me but the new code 2015 requires that all residential outlets be tamper resistant so these outlets won't go to waste we're gonna be building other facilities on the property and we'll want ground fault breakers and we'll want the ground fault receptacles we'll want these receptacles so a lot of these we'll be able to reuse there's probably eight receptacles in this house and I think I probably put in about 20 or 25 of them as tamper resistant just simply because we do have little kids so but in the rooms where I didn't use tamper resistant they are now in a five-gallon bucket now if you can see this this right here this is a combination of the drywall guys not paying attention when they wire up the outlets but the drywall cutters come in and cut this out here a lot of times their cutters will pick up wire don't want any of this exposed side your box so you got to pull them out further cut them back movies mix that one that's for real bad so those Knicks can't be in the wire that's gonna cause something that arcs I'm just gonna get shocked here you can see a little piece right there says homerun those were labels that I had labeled on the wires so that we would know which one was a homerun lot that's important when you're when you're wiring this stuff up to make sure that you label everything you don't remove those labels in the rooms that I wired there's a little yellow piece right on the home run on most of them some of them they were removed somewhere in the process but that makes things a lot easier to identify the new electricians that went through the house and I put up some stickers here's it's two switches unused what happened is we have wires that run through the walls the future wall sconces for example on this switch there'd be a wall sconce on the other side of this wall and there's actually wire running through the ceiling right and center there where our island will eventually be those wires shouldn't have been wired in with the other wires they should have just been capped off because we're not using them yet we wanted the wires in the wall before the drywall one up but we're not using them we don't want them live we don't even want them connected in any way whatsoever they need to be terminated and not attached to the rest of our electrical so in here everything had been wired up and attached so I had gone in and went ahead and installed switches because the switches will be here and we want to be able to put a cover over it but the switches are each wired into a lighting circuit and only one of these lighting circuits should be live at the moment and that's for our cam lights in this room so they have to come back in and now test to figure out which ones are in the walls this is it's similar situation in all of our bathrooms everywhere else we now have to test where those wires are because we're dry well then we can't see them and they shouldn't have been wired in by the electrician but that's hopefully an easy trace so here's another situation where we have a receptacle switch here and this switch powers part of this receptacle this receptacles have switch path light when these were originally strip during roughing and wired and the electrician took off the labels we couldn't tell which one was the line to the switch and which one was the line to the you know the line feeding it so we had to come back in here and identify which lines were which and trace them down so make sure you know if you're doing some of your likes bold electricians doing some of the electrical a lot of this is just sloppy electrician work because that thing you know they would but wasting time later trying to trace this stuff down make sure that your labels and you label things are being left on they strip them back like I showed you with that home run wire you can see on all of these they're coming back through relabeling them when I wire these I made a specific point to label all of these this is just a dummy move altogether I think in this room is just it's it's just got a single draining center it will hang on the wall so we really don't need to vanity lines off to either side but definitely shouldn't put water lives right above anomaly so these water lines can be cut and moved by a plumber and we're just gonna have one in the center the way it should be but right now this is what it looks like in its not gonna pass code our original electrician is also our plumber so you can see how this ended up right here I am showing you our at grade receptacle which they were supposed to install it's invisible it's the invisible at grade outlet it's required by code to have on a grade and we have an invisible one and it has to be a dedicated service outlet well the at great outlet not sure if it has to be the dedicated service outlet but there should be a dedicated service outlet within 25 feet of the air conditioning units so you may have well just made it the same one but ours is invisible it's just it's very hard to find and you can believe it when you don't even make it ask about box the main box three wires the electrical inspector is not gonna let things fly when they come back out they're gonna inspect every outlet they're gonna bring three inspectors they do not trust the electrical in this accident I don't blame you if you can't wire up the main panel you don't belong wiring up the rest of the house now luckily I wired most of the house I didn't do the main panels that didn't do the appliances I didn't do a lot of the things that we showed you today but those were things we had left in the hands of the electrician and went wrong so I think we'll be okay on the rest of the house needless to say and justifiably so we've hired a different electrician to come in and put his license on this project means they're gonna go through everything that we have done and everything that the electrician has done anyway and the reason why we're doing that is because our inspector does not trust the work that he sees out here we want to gain his trust back because we still want to finish the project on a good note with it so we're bringing in a whole new electrician and he's going to go through this whole thing top to bottom and fix anything else that he sees one thing that I didn't mention that you can't really show on the video because it doesn't make any sense if I tried to show to you but we should have a 20 amp surface outlet on the outside of the house or you know at least to get shown service and that we should have its own 20 amp service in the attic space of the house where somebody can go if they're servicing the air-conditioning or an air handler and plug in their tools and equipment and have their own their own breaker to work off of that's for safety reasons there's a lot of reasons for that we don't have that in this house because nobody ever put it in so hopefully you learned something from this video hopefully I planted some things out to you that you may have not known that you need to check for but make sure that you see arc fault breakers in your panels make sure you see GFCI outlets throughout the house we got those in but I put those in and make sure make sure that your contractor has wired up your panels correctly because if you can't make it past your panels you're gonna fail everywhere else

Channel: Yanasa TV

Views: 809,407

Keywords: Electrician, Electrical Wiring, Electrical Code, Electrical Inspection, Bad Electrician, Hazardous Wiring, Rankin Ranch, Rankin Ranch NC, Reconstructing Spirit Hill, Wiring, Electrical Box, Cooper, North Carolina

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Length: 20min 2sec (1202 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 15 2016