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So let me get this straight, did someone actually HACKSAW this receptacle in half?

How can you possibly do that without the thing shattering into a million pieces? I mean the plastics used to make the shell of these things are sturdy, but I doubt they'd take such abuse!

It looks more to me like someone just built the backsplash against an existing receptacle.

Hmm,
This pic may explain a few things.

One more from royal12136:

OH.....MY ...... GOD!!

I don't even wanna know how long it took them to mutilate the socket like that.

I am finding a lot of interesting things with this old house (1920's).
Both receptacles were still hot, the lower one was taped over with electrical tape and Teflon tape. I guess that made it waterproof. No ground to be found, which I figured. It is planned to completely rebuild the house when I finish my apprenticeship in about 3 years. I had a service upgrade last year, so I at least know that is good.

Sven,
There is a term we use here in NZ for people that do this sort of thing.
We call them BUTCHERS.
you don't see it very often though.
Thank the Lord!!.

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Yes, may I have your Texas Chainsaw outlet department?

Seriously... In the time it took to saw that outlet like that, one could've likely flipped the box sideways under the window...

Or perhaps.... maybe... Just maybe...
... Measure the height of the outlets before building the counter and blacksplash??

I was once told that you could not make something "fool proof" for long, as they kept coming out with better fools!

I've seen this sort of situation several times- the backsplash encountering the receptacle- but every handyman seemed to solve the dilema by trimming the backsplash.

Another solution- not code-compliant, but a definite improvement over this HACK saw job, would have been to replace that duplex with a single receptacle.

I came across this situation once. My solution was very creative.

Both cables came in from below. Both were AC cable, in internal clamps. There was no slack in the wall, and no access from the basement.

I cut open the sheetrock, since they were planning a new backsplash anyway. I connected the two cables into a duplex connector, screwed that into a rigid coupling, which I secured to a 4x4 box with a chase nipple. This gave me a 1.75" rise, without compromising the grounding, and left a whopping 4" of conductor in the box, which I pigtailed to a GFCI.

Not ideal, I know, but what else can you do?

WHAT THE HECK! Somebody actually did that just to make it fit!?! I'd rather take the saw to the backsplash!

'Round here we call that Yankee inginuity!