Remember people, interior romex goes on the inside of the house.

"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody) 05/19/2020 at 13:34 • Filed to: WTFLOPNIK

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N ot the outside... Jesus Christ.

Seems the previous owner employed the lowest bidder type contractors. They ran an interior romex cable from the basement to the second floor on the outside of the house. Also turns out that this was running off a 20A breaker up until about a year ago when I swapped in a 15A breaker because the outlet was 15A. 

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 05/19/2020 at 13:48

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That’s cute. A previous owner of my house decided to put an outlet at the end of the retaining wall in the back yard. T hey fed power to it using 2 pieces of romex held together with a wire nut and electrical tape and buried it about an inch and a half in the dirt. The box in the basement ceiling  was chard.

HammerheadFistpunch > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 05/19/2020 at 13:56

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My basement right now. A junction box in the ceiling. This isn’t the only one we’ve found either .  We found it looking for why half the outlets and lights went out in the basement one day and found that the wire nut holding it all together was barely on there.

jminer > HammerheadFistpunch 05/19/2020 at 14:24

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How’d you manage to find that in the ceiling?

HammerheadFistpunch > jminer 05/19/2020 at 14:27

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some sluething, and trial and error.

SiennaMan > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 05/19/2020 at 14:31

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 These type of stories make me feel better about my house..  and the fact that the previous owner just left shit broken.  As annoying as it was, it's so much better than for them to have done stuff like this..

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > HammerheadFistpunch 05/19/2020 at 15:28

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Bloody hell. Suffice to say this weekend I’m climbing through the house to make sure there isn’t anything else, I mean I did fix a few ungrounded outlets so I shouldn’t be surprised... 

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/19/2020 at 15:29

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Roadkilled > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 05/19/2020 at 16:08

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I’ve seen worse, unfortunately.

sn4cktimes > HammerheadFistpunch 05/19/2020 at 17:02

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AAAAAaaaaannnnnd that’s why there’s electrical codes...