An imbecile is loose in the world

[vash]

my handiman installed a dog door so the security panel was on the outside.

i dont know what was more shameful, the dog door mistake or the fact that i was too lazy to install a dog door.

i bought a new slightly bigger dog door and reinstalled it since my wife's new dog was biigger.

[sammyg2]

And imbecile is loose? What is it?

It's a stupid person who is allowed to move about freely, but that's important ...

[sammyg2]

When I bought my house 26 years ago, it had a nice new ceiling fan in the master bedroom.

I soon discovered that the PO wired it up by cutting the end off an extension cord, stripping the wires, and then twisted them onto the ceiling fan wires and wrapped them with electrical tape in the attic.
No junction box, no conduit, no twist locks, just electrical tape.
The other end of the extension cord was fed through a hole in the ceiling in the closet, and routed down and plugged into the wall socket that was controlled by the light witch.

What could go wrong?

[tabs]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

I clicked on the thread-hoping it would mention me, but it didn't/

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NO NO NO...it is all about me!!! I will fix it so that it is....

I don't see anything wrong with the door hinge...

[tabs]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

When I bought my house 26 years ago, it had a nice new ceiling fan in the master bedroom.

I soon discovered that the PO wired it up by cutting the end off an extension cord, stripping the wires, and then twisted them onto the ceiling fan wires and wrapped them with electrical tape in the attic.
No junction box, no conduit, no twist locks, just electrical tape.
The other end of the extension cord was fed through a hole in the ceiling in the closet, and routed down and plugged into the wall socket that was controlled by the light witch.

What could go wrong?

Doesn't Everybody do it that way?

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

FWIW I don't think a tradesman would do something like that. More likely a PO.

We hired a company to replace two doors. I hate doing it with brick so we hired it out. He would have done that and then when you complain he did it wrong he would blame the door manufacturer. I had to fix the issue myself when he screwed ours up and then blamed the cheap door for not being plumb.

[GH85Carrera]

My old bachelor pad house was built in the mid 1950s. Back before every house had central air, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, and garbage disposals. All of the previous owners had been fix up the house types. It had the only two car wide parking driveway in the neighborhood, central air, a place for me to plug in my washer and dryer. It had just an 80 amp service to the house. The entire house electrical was inside of metal conduit, and old style two wire circuits, and the conduit was the ground.

If the AC was running and I flipped on the lights in the bedroom and the refrigerator cycled on, the circuit breaker would blow. If I had the washer and gas dryer (just 110 volts) running and the TV was turned on, pop goes the circuit breaker.

It took me several years to save the money to rewire most of the house, but I still was limited to the 80 amp service. I just had figured out how to spread the load. When I was getting married my FIL was an electrician. I never could figure out how to add a bigger service panel to the house as the meter fed right up the wall to that panel. He made it real simple, cut the tag, pull the meter, and then add the bigger panel. Replace the meter, and just reach in his pocket and put on a new meter tag.

So I lived in the house for 24 years, and put up with the 80 amps. To sell the house, I had to put in a 140 amp panel.

Oh as a bonus, all the drains were lead pipe. I had a heck of a time finding a plumber to replace the toilet drop from the floor to the sewer line that had been lead.

Also when I moved in in 1982 the only phone line was one line in the middle of the house in a phone nook area. I installed phone outlets all over the house, and eventually had three phone lines. One for my land line, once for my BBS once for my modem.

[Hugh R]

I hate it when people paint hinges, you wouldn't paint over a door handle would you?

[javadog]

No they didn’t paint over the door handles but hinges and strike plates were fair game. I will eventually replace all of the hardware.

[brp914]

Maybe some of you retired guys with some extra time could track down and mercilessly flog whomever decided that it was necessary to change the thread pitch on 2" ABS pipe from what it was 20 yrs ago. That and shower drains. Appreciated.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My novel...

What is it uphill both ways and snowing every day?

[look 171]

That is funny. I have to hand it to the installer, it works.

[URY914]

My brother-in-law took a door off to install a doggie door.
You guessed it-he installed it on the top of the door and not the bottom.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by brp914

Maybe some of you retired guys with some extra time could track down and mercilessly flog whomever decided that it was necessary to change the thread pitch on 2" ABS pipe from what it was 20 yrs ago. That and shower drains. Appreciated.

Hahaha!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by javadog

What is it uphill both ways and snowing every day?

Nope, but I was barefoot!

My parents house was built in the late 1930. It needed just about everything upgraded. Location location location is why they bought.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by URY914

My brother-in-law took a door off to install a doggie door.
You guessed it-he installed it on the top of the door and not the bottom.

So your doggie has to jump through a hoop to go potty..

[tabs]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I hate it when people paint hinges, you wouldn't paint over a door handle would you?

If you were sitting in my Living room when I had a paint brush in hand you would find yourself painted over..

[john70t]

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by javadog

Probably the same guy that installed the closet rods with 16 penny nails.

As in hanging an audjustable length closet rod on a 16 penny nail driven through the wood support.

Yeah, going to fix that, too.

Hah! a hundred years ago when I was a painter on the tracts I went into a closet to paint the backside of a pocket door and found that the carpenter who installed the shelf and pole nailed the sucker open using some bodacious long nails in a gun.

AFA as the hinge, I've been in the trades for 50 years and have never seen that. How do we know a "boss" was even involved? The blind leading the blind?

Oh, wait, I guess we can't say things like that anymore.

[GH85Carrera]

Just check your roof joists. Make sure this idiot did not work on your house!