From Michael Cash

Let's see, we've got water pipe, a garden hose, now all we need is water in this mess to fill it up. (At least I think it's water pipe.)

Ohh, there's wires in them pipes!

Okay, I know we've seen garden hose as conduit before,but I can't find the thread. Water pipes/fittings and garden hoses, I guess he was a "Two wrongs make a right" kinda guy.

Ian A.

I don't recognize that white 90 in the last photo. It looks like there are three holes in it along the vertical axis. What is it? Another custom part?

I have to say that it's a first for me to see garden hose used as conduit...but I'm a young punk....

RSlater,
RSmike

That 90" fitting looks like something we had on our jacuzzi " bubbler" for the pool.. It was an air inlet of sorts... Could also be the spout off a chlorine jug too.
A.D

The holes in the white fitting are for heat dissipation.

Now that is the reason I hate selling to homeowners. They won't spend the extra money on the proper fittings. I do have one question though. When did the weep hole for a panel become a wire entry?

Allen

Bob you took my line! LOL

Ian A.

At least he provided some mechanical protection, I have seen worse.

He is certainly is not a tradesman.

It looks like that the green earth wire in the last picture doesn't continue in the grey pipe.

that green wire might just be a really bad pull job. I think that it is just looped there. Regardless, this should just all be re-rewired to make it less awful.

The garden hose idea isn't that bad, however, provided that it is for low voltage and temporary use only. I have a fiber cable run inside a garden hose that I use for really long runs where twisted pair wouldn't work. I use it a lot for outdoor concerts if were streaming audio on the web. It is only for temporary stuff, though.

I give him credit for at least using the proper colored THWN instead of bell wire or extension cord.

Peter

Is her boyfriends phone number (800)HANDYMAN? This whole schlabang looks terrifyingly (is that a word?) familiar..


Thats if this isn't for a 240V pump motor.. If it's for the pool light, I'd love to know if there's GFI protection...

iwire,
I had to make the picture of Curly my desk top backround lmao.

Frank....I made it my background as well.

Hey Iwire, where'd you get that pic ? Is there more where that came from ? Its a beauty.

I made it my MSN pic. People ask me about it and I just tell them its a picture of myself at work

A.D

Garden hose with "T&E" (Romex) pulled through it is all too common here when a homeowner has wired power to a garden shed or garage.

I worked with an old-timer who use to tell me about garden hose in concrete slabs. I guess they would plug both ends and fill it with water and pour around. Then they would let the water out and pull the hose out of the concrete creating a nice round raceway.

I guess it was either red-neck or cheap.

Top this guys....
Not too long ago I was part of a conversation where one of the participants (not me) was bragging about using black plastic lawn irrigation pipe to run natural gas from his house to the garage. I kept my mouth shut as the guy was busy justifying how and why he did it and how much money he saved

RSlater,
RSmike

I used to work for a combined electric and gas utility company, and it wasn't uncommon in the ghetto areas, to find plain old cheap garden hose used to pipe gas, especially from a customer who was still PAYING for gas service, to all the neighboring deadbeats who were stealing his service.

It's funny what guys will do for the girlfriend.....