At the least they could of used uf wire .But WHY SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY. hope they are not planning to hide this VIOLATION with some siding ....

Good Lord!!.
Now I have really have seen it all.

Impressive, now there's a man who thinks outside the box.

What an elegant idea, running those NM's (homeruns, maybe...?) through the wall right next to the oil tank fill piping? I guess that's better than running them through the piping .

What do you do if you have to add more circuits in the future...put up more siding?

I'm sure every EC likes to hear, "...you just install the service meter and panel, and I will take it from there (i.e., you're so $#%^$^ expensive, I can do this a lot cheaper) It keeps the fire departments in business.

Mike (mamills)

{Just edited to remove multiple edits, Mike}

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The change from aluminum siding to vinyl has saved many a fool from an early funeral.
A "good" inspector will wait until the jerk has almost all the siding up before red tagging it.
Alan --

OH PLEASE PLEASE don't let this guy turn out to be an engineer, Lord!

Alan

This looks like the kind of work that the phone company does when adding an extension. Maybe the "installer" (outstaller?) is a phone company employee?

I bet this guy had a previous job as a cable tv installer.

Looks just like their work.


Dnk........

+1 for a former cable guy doing the install...

My bet's also on the TV man.

The plus points to this method of wiring:

1. Easy routing of wiring. Just decide on a position for the receptacle, smash a hole thro' the wall and run the wire to the next location.
2. Air/rain cooled conductors.
3. If it catches fire, the FD can see where it's alight.
4. Takes the casual observers attention away from that ghastly Mayan-style masonry effect wall board crap, thus making $50000 worth of improvement.
5. No unsightly wiring nailed to the sheetrock inside and no fishing.
6. Put some new siding on, and presto! it's inside the wall, just like a regular timberframe house!....er..um....wait a minute, can you red card it now?

Alan

ps. Oh No! He's an engineer!!!

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How did he handle wiring the outlets on the inside walls?

>How did he handle wiring the outlets on the inside walls?

Outlets on the inside walls? Who needs those? Just run extension cords and plug outlet strips into them! Afterall, if it works, that's all that matters right?

-Z

I'm with you there 'ise!.
If these are the bits that you can see, imagine what the inside of the panel looks like!.

name the violations? i think art 310-

"What's the violation?" is actually a pretty good question. I'd start by asking: is the space behind the siding considered "wet" or "damp?"

I'm also willing to guess that this guy way on the right track....that his house was wired with only half a dozen circuits (nowhere near enough for today's home). I'd guess he's abandoned all the old wire- which may not even had a ground- and is connecting these new "circuits" through the backs of the first box in each 'run."

What did he do for the 240V circuits?

3EK,
We ain't seen the roof yet!

Maybe I'm an incurable optimist, but what if they just haven't put up the furring strips yet?


(Gee, I wonder if there's a forum for carpenters where they put up pictures of bad siding jobs.)

Vinyl siding, I would not put that garbage on a building was going to have burnt down the next day, for fear of degrading the structure.

There is a way to surface run romex on the exterior before siding is installed. You take a router and cut a channel. Slip in the wire and cover with a strip of metal (12) gauge. Big head roofing nails at the edge of the strips to hold it in place. Then side right over.
Now for the big question, is it a wet,damp, or dry location if you do it the way I just described. I am leaning on dry.

Electure,
Wouldn't that be a forum to see.
CCN anyone?.

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Couldn't have been a TV guy---I see a staple