Called in our electrical contractor to give us a price on some work in several schools. I've had to call him back on a couple of projects lately and haven't been dazzled with the quality of his work. The "lowest bidder" rule in government contracting at its best.
Anyway...I want a new sub pannel installed in a school. I show him the switch gear, tell him where I want the new breaker installed, show where the EMT should go across a boiler room and into a hallway drop ceiling. I suggest that he can go to MC or greenfeld there since it will be out of site but I want EMT wherever we can see it.
He suggested switching from EMT to SO and running SO down the hallway to swith back to EMT where it becomes visable again. I told him I didn't want SO and he's going to quote greenfield but is SO even allowed?
