Good point, I don’t know why I make a video, I just get bored at lunch time so I make a video and I posted on RU-vid and is there for whoever wants to watch it, not asking or forcing anybody to watch my videos which, by the way, are horrible with no helpful information, not editing, or professional content, I am just having fun recording and posting that’s it!! Thanks for your comment though 👍🏼 ✌️
Dude, your English is only fair, HOWEVER your work is just beautiful to look at. Your pride shows. I’m very picky and I’d hire you even with a higher bid.
Nope, the old meter was 2 foot six inches to the center of the globe, the new code requires the meter panel to be 3 foot 6 inches minimum and 5 feet maximum height to the center of the globe, usually we make those splices underground but the costumer didn’t want that so we made the splices inside the meter panel, which is more dangerous but we are professionals and we can handle it. If you see close both line and load are splices, the load side each splice kit is 75 US dollars, so we didn’t come up short.
Yes it is, it is tray cable and is rated for a 100 amp, the town where that job is, is very strict and they check all that, those inspectors don’t play around
There's still Romex from the 50s in the house I live in, I try my best not to think too much about it besides being prepared for a possible electrical fire. (having extinguishers, knowing where breakers are, etc)
@@prashp143 nope, there is an apartment upstairs and there is a couple living in there and just like downstairs it smells horrible, its disgusting, I can’t comprehend how people can live in those conditions
@@extranosito hmm. I assume the undertaking was because of the rental/mortgage prices. It’s crazy to think the previous owners just sat on such an asset.
Twice during my lifetime narrowly escaped injury and death caused by landlords, or slumlords if we're being specific here, doing shady stuff to the electrical system. One was an apartment, other was a house. I was in my mid 20s just finishing a two year trade school and living by myself for the first time (😂excited 😂) First incident was at the Rivers Edge apartment complex , Waterford MI. in April 2014, the day of move in. There is a through the wall air conditioner that was plugged into a standard 15 amp 120 volt outlet, the factory plug on the unit had been changed to fit the outlet, never thought anything of it. I had one of those 8 to 10 dollar Walmart brand floor lamps with the plastic shade and 3 way switch, I was using a 23 watt CFL bulb instead and where the air conditioner was plugged in, also happened to be the most convenient place to plug my floor lamp in at. As nighttime approached, as soon as I turned the switch, there is loud popping and bright flashes, the CFL caught fire and in a full blown panic, smashed the lamp through the window out the second floor with the bulb and shade on fire. After a few shots of whiskey to calm nerves, I grabbed my multimeter and sure enough, 240V. Trying to get the landlord to accept at least some responsibility for this near tragedy, was like talking to a wall and to add insult to injury, told me, "well you shouldn't have plugged your lamp into that socket, dummy " Second incident happened in Pontiac, MI. Rented a 3 bed 1 bath bungalow built in 1936. A few weeks before Christmas, as I'm dozing off in front of the TV, the power goes out, and I heard a roaring sound resembling a chimney fire, in the wall, windows shattering, dense smoke in the hallway leading to the bedrooms, no smoke detectors went off. I crawled out the front door in pitch blackness. Went I got out to safety, flames were shooting out the roof and the entire side of the house with the bedrooms, was fully engulfed. I was treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation, hypothermia and frostbite to my toes. Had I been fully asleep I wouldn't be here today, before the home was a 1 ½ story with basement, balloon framed, and the fire started in the basement at a splice between the knob and tube wires and some newer romex. For those not familiar with framing, balloon framing was commonly used from about the 1860s up until about 1940, and consists of studs running from the sill, to roofline with no horizontal blocking between floors, allowing for a chimney effect and a fire on a lower level that entered a stud bay to spread uncontrolled. In modern construction (post WWII) we use platform framing, which as the name suggests, construction for a second floor is done over the first floor after its framed, and horizontal lumber, called firestops, are added in the studbays as well, to add stiffness to the structure and to slow the spread of fire in the wall cavity should it occur.
The best I've ever seen was in a building with a courtyard, with mechanical basement on one side. The drainage in the courtyard couldn't keep up with heavy rains, and there were cracks into the basement. I showed up to find water streaming down the walls, 1/2" on the floor because the sump couldn't keep up, and in the middle of the wall was a panel, door partially open, water cascading over the front and in-between each breaker, filling the bottom and all the rigid runs into the floor. It had been like that for a decade and operating continuously.
@@extranosito yea for sure. Worst I've seen with kids was a home owner who didn't want to pay for a ceiling fan to be installed in his kids room. He did it himself. Of course he didn't use a fan rated box....on a cathedral ceiling. Thankfully the kid wasn't in his room when it fell and swung around the room and ripped all the Sheetrock down.
I was an electrician for 30 years one of the worst I can remember was a service call they had a bowl of dog food on the kitchen floor covered with maggots and there were chickens in there eating them
I've been a cable guy for 18 years. I go into sketchy homes almost daily. This looks no different. I'm guessing it's from the 50s or 60s and must have some major humidity problems! Lots of old homes in decent areas here are being sold as teardowns that get replaced with two narrow, tall homes. In the sketchy areas, many are just burned down :(
Yes, it’s an old house, very humid and the smell is so bad, and it looks like the people that lived there never took care of the place, and I’m pretty sure there was a kid living in there
@@Monkeyvr-Titanic the owner of the house told me that it was hard to get that set and that’s the reason he has it on display right on the main entrance of the house. I mostly work on high end homes and I usually see nice, unique and expensive things.
@@melvinbrumski1446 good observation my man, I’m an electrician and we were addressing two bad smoke detectors and a smoke and c o combo that were bad, we were waiting for the new smoke detectors to get delivered so I decided to take a video of that little bar, so every time I get the chance I take a video and I posted here on RU-vid, you can tell I don’t have a pro camera, I use my iPhone and I don’t edit any, I just do it for fun, but good observation and thanks for your comment. By the way that house has a value of around $4.3 million 🫡
Good point. In this case: for what we saw in the main panel, this receptacle was installed more than ten years ago, second this was an indoor outlet installed outdoors and third it was installed 7 feet above salt water. In the past three years We have seen this problems more frequently but thanks for your comment 👍🏼
@@extranosito me too. I only do residential. They care, they react, you get coffee, lunch and a pat on the back. 44 years of this and I've got a lot of family where I live. The rewards if you're good at your trade can't be measured. 👍 I'm betting you feel the same.
@@T1000Rex si, yo uso ese nombre porque estaba comprando unas frutas en el Chinatown de New York city y el señor me decía: extra, no, si, todo y pues la manera que lo decía se me hizo graciosa y se me quedó grabado. De allí es que decidí usar extranosito
