Hey Ron!! Hope you had a great trip to Dallas! Nice work with the EMtT!! Why didn’t you use PVC?? lol Just kidding. Have a good one!! Jets and Giants tomorrow!! Enjoy🍻🍻⚡️⚡️🔌💡🏈🏈
Ron, I enjoy your videos and I feel for you too. I’m regionally worked in the south for 45 years and somehow I got tricked by my wife move to Midwest. I have never encountered a smorgasbord of the wiring technique and how it ever got passed by inspection. I’m still scratching my head, there’s a NEC way and then what you’re doing correcting, unsafe, wiring techniques. I hope the homeowner understands that if something happens to the home and the fire marshal reports this the insurance will not cover their home. It’s Very important to have a license electrician/contractor for the homeowner safety. Keep doing your great stewardship videos.
Brother you aren’t kidding! This house under contract so these violations were brought up in an inspection report. The buyers hire a home inspector then the owner pays to have the work repaired/ replaced/ and/ or removed. I love what I do! I’m happy you enjoy the channel!!
Just to comment on the insurance. My home caught fire due to faulty wiring that was not up to code. Not only will the fire department investigate the fire and determine the cause, the insurance will send their own team in to do their own investigation. The fire department blamed a faulty chimney, despite telling them there was not a fire in the fire place. The Insurance found bad wiring that was also not up to code. They covered the claim and as per them, other than my word they had no idea if I had done the wiring or a previous owner. The previous owner did tell me they hired a licensed electrician to update the wiring. Obviously it's always better safe than sorry and the wiring needs to be cone correctly, but I thought I'd share this to let people know how the claim sort of works.
Curious that I have seen exposed Romex in other videos of yours as acceptable . Mostly in basements with electrical panels . Would it not be acceptable on the ceiling of this garage ? . Also when you think about it running Romex in attics you would think walking on that Romex while working in the attic subjects it to physical damage . It's such a vague description on what constitutes physical damage . Now I run conduit for all my exposed work . Nice job .
Hi Ron. When I wired my two-car garage, I ran all exposed cables through metal conduit. I did this in case a blade or other sharp object got loose or I became DIY frustrated and threw something. All wiring is 12 gauge, and all outlets are 20amp rated. For four or fewer outlets, I wired them to a separate breaker also rated for 20amps. I realize this is overkill, but it is still cheaper than hiring an electrician, and it looks so good.
Nothing wrong with more than what you need. 20A x 120V = 2400 watts. Plus (4) circuits like that! 4 x 2400 = 9600 watts. Dude, you can run a lot of stuff with that much capacity.
Hi Ron. Thank you for your nice reply. I forgot to add why I strive to do the best electrical work. My next-door neighbor is a retired master electrician. He knows I always strive to do the best and my time, effort, and cost don't concern me. Thanks again and have a nice and safe day.🔌@@electricianron_New_Jersey
Nice job. As a consulting/design engineer I always required two hole straps and did not allow screw fittings, but that's just me on commercial, educational, and industrial projects.
That's because, as an engineer, you don't know what is practical and what is not. In the field, we often just ignore unrealistic pie-in-the-sky engineering specs.
@@edisont.picard4112 after 25 years of experience inspecting work, there are too many loose set screw couplings, conduits coming disconnected, fasteners pulling out, It's simple, follow the specs or I don't sign your pay application, and you get to do the work over. Specifications my client paid me to write can exceed Code minimums. Remember, the Code book is not a design guide, but minimum standards.
Great work!!! I cant believe the person that lived there before couldn't reach out to someone that at least has some knowledge of Elec work... I have to DIY BC im rural but I always re check my work with a qualified Electritian through FaceTime
Lightning strike Tuesday morning took out all my new shed wiring and a fair bit in the house. Mini-split died last night, right after the tech thought it was OK. Metal covers on jct boxes blew off. All GFIs gone, plus 5 breakers. Hope the wires in the wall are OK. Great fun. Thx.
I've always thought that EMT was used indoors, whereas PVC is used outdoors and underground feeds, since it can be made watertight and does not rust and collapse underground. Of course unlike EMT its not self-bonding, being non conductive, so you have to remember to pull a green wire to bond the system.
I was surveying my brother's garage. Only one receptacle. NOT GFCI. While following lines to panel I found a neatly roller up line of ROMEX rolled up in the rafters with zipties, LIVE, going nowhere?! Will be doing some updates for him.
I have a hard time swallowing that the risk of damage to the cable on the ceiling outweighed introducing all those additional joints in a feed to a dryer. That said, the wire running from the light to the side of the cabinet was pretty cringey.
I would much rather use EMT than PVC. Wires pull easier in EMT. PVC gets crooked and wonky unless you use a lot of straps. EMT 3' off the box and every 10' (I usually did 8') and you're done. Nice little job Ron. That old wiring was better than a lot of DIY stuff. At least the guy grounded it. If you really want to cringe, go to upstate NY or Vermont. You have never seen sketchy until you go there. I had a Masters in VT before I retired. Back then you didn't need to have a license to wire a house. Don't know if that has changed.
What is the fishtape that broke on you again. I'm thinking of getting 1 & want 2 avoid it. TIA. Great work! IMO & IME PVC should never be used. It just turns into a mess! We had some put in at my work & like 2 years after that the clips started braking & everything, was just a HUGE mess & I volunteer for a local no kill pet rescue in my area that is a 501 C 3 non-profit so that was a HUGE & expensive problem!
Old school and alwsys used EMT in houses. Too often I would not run any PVC and cement was bad. Ran EMT in rear of my basement to feed washer & dryer & new circuits and to the garage. Only wish that I would have ran EMT or ENT to second floor bedroom TV'S 40 years ago. Ran RG 5 cable and a few years ago when cable company installed new cable boxes tried to tell me that I ran the wrong cable. Told the cable clowns that far superior RG6 cable was not out when I ran that cable.
Nice cleanup there. WTF is that really old 10/2 (or 10/3) romex with the fiber sheath going to the dryer receptacle?! Did you deal with that end of it? That is so strange, someone recently installed that old cable? Must be recycled cable obviously. PVC or EMT? I vote PVC for outside residential, and EMT for everything inside that doesn't need liquid tightness. EMT just has the "workmanlike" aesthetic in a dry environment. Though I think EMT is suitable for wet environments too, I think it comes in aluminum and stainless.
Good one . Just trying to help out channel by commenting . I thought it helps with the algorithm . I like your set up and enjoy your Real world videos .
Another great video. I SEE YOU A MILWAUKEE MAN I LOVE MY DEWALT. I HAVE THAT KLEIN TESTER LOVE THEM BOTH. ARE YOU A ONE MAN COMPANY OR DO YOU HAVE OTHER WORKERS. GREAT VIDEO KEEP THEM COMING
Hello, I'm new to your channel. I just finished building a garage and I'm trying to get a real answer to what wire I should use from house box to sub panel in garage. I have been told 6/3 and others have different size. House is 100 amp, sub will be 50 amp. Other than lights,openers and a small air compressor I have a 125 welder that plugs in 110. Hope you can help.. thanks
You're not allowed to run low volt wiring meaning telecommunications cables, doorbell wiring, in the same raceway or outlet box as line voltage unless the box has a divider to separate the low and line volt wiring. You're also not permitted to install service conductors in the same raceway as feeders or branch circuit wiring, but feeders and branch circuits can be in the same raceway. Service conductors are UNFUSED, and a short between a service conductor and a feeder or branch circuit conductor leaves a circuit with no overload or short circuit protection.
Hi Ron, love watching your videos. I have a question. You left the two Romex cables running from the electric panel to the first junction box. They were tucked into the corner where the wall meets the ceiling. Is this OK to have exposed Romex this way? I always thought you could not have exposed Romex more than just several inches.
There is some ambiguity as far as the “protection from physical damage. It’s pretty out of the way in the corner but sleeving the whole cable might have been better
@@electricianron_New_Jersey I agree with the changes to the light. And I'm sure that you did what you had to do to those 2 circuits to meet code in your area. And you did it in a cost-effective manner that the realtor likely prefers. Still, it is videos like these that make me grateful that my service panels (and other utilities) are in my unfinished basement where things can be more easily upgraded properly. Adding 2 splices to each wire just goes against the grain for me for the limited practical safety improvement.
Gee's Ron! you get a pass because you do not work with EMT, but you could have done better. 10 degree offsets for the junction boxes needed and 30 degree offset's for those corners. well, I give you credit for using EMT.
You can do whatever you want on your jobs. Sure, I could’ve done a 90 and a 3-4” offset at 30 degrees but I didn’t see it like that while I was doing it. I’m fine with my install.
@@electricianron_New_JerseyI checked out the Milwaukee powered fish tape after seeing you using it and also saw all the crappy reviews on it…Milwaukee blew this one unfortunately 😢
