It's a no win game. Even if you you perfectly customize the electrical to the current owner the next one will come along and assume your a moron for the way you placed things.
The first custom I was responsible for was tailored to exact specs working closely with the owner. It took forever and my boss wanted to know why I was trying to ruin the company by dragging the job out so long.
As it turns out, some years later they sold that house and the new owners call an electrician who happens to be me.
After much explaining myself and delicately stepping around the fact that is was the former owner and not me who is the moron, I was finally allowed to help in the kitchen remodel. The last thing---the floor plug in the concrete slab is in the "wrong" place. It's about 6" "too far forward" to be hidden properly under their couch.
"Could you move the couch forward 6"? "-----"Oh no, that wouldn't look right."
I'm no fan of coercion but I have to say that "code minimum" probably is the only thing that makes some houses livable to future owners.
Last edited by ChicoC10; 10/19/10 10:11 PM.
