That the guy was born in czechoslovakia may have affected his mentality, but his education must have been in Austria, so it doesn't change much. As i said, we have some strange guys here. like the one who installed a fully grounded system in our appartment with Schuko receptacles everywhere and then "forgot" the ground between main fuse in staircase and our breaker panel 25 years ago.
I found out about that yesterday...
That guy was licensed!
About spanish wiring: I have only been there once on holidays and can just remember loose hot wires dangling around like grapevines, open receptacles and stuff like that. maybe they also had 110 V back then. (At least in one country my father tried to hook up a hairdryer to a standard outlet and wondered why it ran so slow-110V)
The wildest extension cord practice I ever saw was in fact in the US (Brooklyn, NYC). It's nice to have a 15A/120V duplex receptacle extended to 12 outlets using various taps, extension cords and strips.
