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#122404 11/03/05 08:28 PM
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From renosteinke

So, which is it? Good? or Bad?


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#122405 11/03/05 08:43 PM
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Hmm,
Is it good or is it bad,that's the question.
I'd have to go with the latter, after all, how much can a "Real Estate Executive" know about good wiring practice?.

#122406 11/03/05 09:04 PM
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Hope the power was off.. This really does make me wonder about the soundness of the idea behind H for H and other charity groups that go to 3rd world countries and do this sort of thing... but then again you are not as likely to be sued for defects in a house you build in Mexico, either... My vote is for "bad". Most real estate types are mechanincally over-challenged when you pass the point of changing a lightbulb anyway...

#122407 11/03/05 10:18 PM
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From what I have heard there are real electricians to supervise and the volunteers are taught how to do the task at hand; drill holes here, pull wire like this to here, get this tool for me, make the switches like this etc.,like a green helper. Rod

#122408 11/03/05 10:32 PM
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Based on the description, bad.

#122409 11/04/05 07:28 AM
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It's both. Good for the "system" because the house gets built cheaper but bad for the poor licensed electrician who has to supervise the job, repair all the mess ups and take liability for the whole thing. The newspaper never sees the guy who spends 40 hrs correcting what the execs did in 10.

#122410 11/04/05 08:27 AM
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I am on the "Depends" side.

If this is bad, because of the potential lack of knoweledge of the agents doing the wiring, then this poses the question about Jimmy Carter doing framing for these houses?

And Jon Bon Jovi was recently featured building Habitat homes for Hurricane victims.

What do they know about this, probably nothing.

So, my conclusion would be, with the appropriate supervision and oversite, practicly anyone could do anything.

When you factor in that this is for a good cause, in the end, this could be a really good thing.

Dnk...

#122411 11/04/05 09:20 AM
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It is not really as bad as some think.
I worked a habitat for humanity house with my church a few years back. The laymen weren't allowed to do major electrical work. No service entrance orlarge loads like A/C and the like. They were allowed to wire light fittings, switches and outlets, nothing major. They were all showed how to do it and the work WAS thoroughly inspected after wards. In my experience they didn't do too bad. You did have to look at them a little more closely. But, it was no big deal.

#122412 11/04/05 04:34 PM
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We had a thread not so long ago about "qualified help." The Three Stooges were used to illustrate the principle.

No matter how you slice it, "real estate executives" are not "qualified help." No matter how good their intentions, they have no business even as "the dumb end of the shovel."

Do you think, that for even one minute, they considered letting a well-intentioned electrician handle the sale of the house? Well, their objections apply to their own doing electrical work.

Ours is a trade that takes time, brains, and expereince to master. There are lives, and property, at stake. Nor is it the job of the inspector to check every detail- which is why many places restrict who may do "electrical work."

You can be sure that "Habitat" uses real archetects and structural engineers in their plans. There is no excuse for not using real electricians. The poor deserve better.

#122413 11/04/05 05:04 PM
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Dont bash H for H Scouts Can makes me do 48h of volenteer work I do mine with H for H .... but Real Estate Executives i do have a problem with


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