"compentency is subjective"
Here in Jersey we had a pretty good test, you needed to know your stuff, to pass, then sometime in the mid 80's, they had complaints the test was to difficult, and they were not able to pass, so instead of sending, the poor babies back to school , they dumbed down the testing, so yes, even in jersey, there can be less than competent contractors out there, heck, they even complain now that the test is difficult, so now we have to run a CEU program, just to bring some of them up to a competent level, but we do have, a large number of competent electricians here, that do a good job, and are not crooks.
[This message has been edited by LK (edited 09-17-2006).]
