Re: Your Favorite Install Tool?

["ranger" <hd_ranger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or how about drilling thru the ceiling in a boiler room, next to the wall,
for some surface-ran wiring, and hitting a 120V wire ran thru the ceiling
nailer. (Knew right away cause the lights went out.)   The fire in the attic
was small, though, and put itself out.  And this was the first of 21
pre-wires....

Rick C.

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Welp yah know...you NEVER know where some dumb electrician has run a wire!
I
> found that out years ago...I was drilling UP above a door header to
replace
> a door switch on a  house. Top of the door was less than a foot below the
> ceiling (old house). ZAP. Of course no one told me the door had actually
> been a window at one time so I guess the 110 vac had been re-routed from
> under the window to OVER the door.
>
>
>
> "Matt Ion" <soundy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | JoeRaisin wrote:
> | >
> | >
> | > Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> | >
> | >> Crash Gordon wrote:
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>> Basement is almost the same process...easier if your basement
doesn't
> | >>> have a finished ceiling.
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | >> The old, very damaged, suspended ceiling was removed the week I
bought
> | >> the house.  It's remaining with no ceiling until I finish several
> | >> rewiring projects, which I admit will be a few years at least.
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>> Except you wont have the problem of drilling out the roof...only
> | >>> smashing into the basement stem wall with your drill bit...and of
> | >>> course water pipes.
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | >> Oh yes, of course ... water pipes.  Thanks!
> | >>
> | >
> | > And 110 wiring... Don't forget 110 wiring.
> |
> | A friend was having a cable outlet installed in his apartment for a
> | cable-internet hookup.  The cable installer was drilling down through
> | the floor and hit a 110 wire, and shorted it to something else metal,
> | and started a fire.
> |
> | Fortunately, his apartment was right across the street from the fire
> | hall.. :)
> |
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