TerryP
Staff
I thought I'd seen a lot, not everything, but at least a good majority of 'short cuts' contractors make when building homes. Until this past week.
Yesterday morning my next door neighbor ask me to install a Ring™ doorbell. She even offered to pay me a little money for it which I refused. "It's only a couple of screws."
What I didn't expect to see is instead of using the correct wiring for the original doorbell, the contractor took phone cord and used two of the five wires. A phone cord...and to say the least it can't handle the currents.
Wednesday, I'm helping a friend install flooring at his house. As we're pulling the base off to install new...found a piece of base behind the sheetrock. They'd put it there because the framing was out of line and that base kept the sheetrock semi-straight. Certainly not square.
My doorbell is literally hooked into the hot on an electrical switch that's on the opposite side of the house. In my mud room! Literally, four rooms away, across half of the house. Why?
I don't have an answer for any of these. I'd love to find the guys who built these homes to ask a simple question, "WTF?"
Yesterday morning my next door neighbor ask me to install a Ring™ doorbell. She even offered to pay me a little money for it which I refused. "It's only a couple of screws."
What I didn't expect to see is instead of using the correct wiring for the original doorbell, the contractor took phone cord and used two of the five wires. A phone cord...and to say the least it can't handle the currents.
Wednesday, I'm helping a friend install flooring at his house. As we're pulling the base off to install new...found a piece of base behind the sheetrock. They'd put it there because the framing was out of line and that base kept the sheetrock semi-straight. Certainly not square.
My doorbell is literally hooked into the hot on an electrical switch that's on the opposite side of the house. In my mud room! Literally, four rooms away, across half of the house. Why?
I don't have an answer for any of these. I'd love to find the guys who built these homes to ask a simple question, "WTF?"