kmead
Old enough to know better
This is an off topic thread so you can move it after a few people have seen it...
So I have had a project waiting around my new house for me to get to.
When I bought the house it had two circuits serving 1800 sf in the basement which had two bedrooms, a bath, a family room, a shop area and two storerooms. One circuit had over thirty hardwired elements on the circuit. The other which served the shop was more appropriately loaded.
Additionally some of the work was a bit suspect. Apparently the electrician fancied himself as quite the solderer of wires.
Keep in mind that this was all done by an electrician, I have found some other similar handiwork in several junction boxes around the house that I have been excising as I go along. All the things we all dislike about soldered connections apply here as well as my furnace wouldn’t run some of the time, come to find out it was a broken soldered connection hiding in electrical tape...
The first image shows the 7, 3 wire groups after removing the tape on them to expose the fine handiwork. Keep in mind these were inhabiting a 4x4 junction box. 22 conductors in all including the box ground.
The next shows the chopped out soldered assemblies.
Finally where I am now. I have lots of stapling and clean up to do, along with some labeling. I added a sub panel using the two circuits from our now defunct cooktop (another story), I had to add a ground wire as the electrician who ran the new wires to the cooktop didn’t bother with 3+G so I could keep the neutral and the ground separated. (You no longer bond the neutral in a sub panel to the ground).
The diagonal wire “lights supply” will be going back to another circuit, when the pic was taken I hadn’t re routed that one. It’s also a panoramic pic so the one junction box looks a bit wonky in the center of the image...
So I have had a project waiting around my new house for me to get to.
When I bought the house it had two circuits serving 1800 sf in the basement which had two bedrooms, a bath, a family room, a shop area and two storerooms. One circuit had over thirty hardwired elements on the circuit. The other which served the shop was more appropriately loaded.
Additionally some of the work was a bit suspect. Apparently the electrician fancied himself as quite the solderer of wires.
Keep in mind that this was all done by an electrician, I have found some other similar handiwork in several junction boxes around the house that I have been excising as I go along. All the things we all dislike about soldered connections apply here as well as my furnace wouldn’t run some of the time, come to find out it was a broken soldered connection hiding in electrical tape...
The first image shows the 7, 3 wire groups after removing the tape on them to expose the fine handiwork. Keep in mind these were inhabiting a 4x4 junction box. 22 conductors in all including the box ground.
The next shows the chopped out soldered assemblies.
Finally where I am now. I have lots of stapling and clean up to do, along with some labeling. I added a sub panel using the two circuits from our now defunct cooktop (another story), I had to add a ground wire as the electrician who ran the new wires to the cooktop didn’t bother with 3+G so I could keep the neutral and the ground separated. (You no longer bond the neutral in a sub panel to the ground).
The diagonal wire “lights supply” will be going back to another circuit, when the pic was taken I hadn’t re routed that one. It’s also a panoramic pic so the one junction box looks a bit wonky in the center of the image...
