Originally Posted by leroycnbucks
Six months ago I witnessed an electrical crew of Hispanics pulling hot legs to main breaker lugs. I asked the white superintendent of the electrical contractor if they had a license and he said that they were just general laborers and not licensed electricians. Him lying to me just pissed me off that much more.

It doesn't require a license to do that work. Some companies will have employees with a journey man license. But when I was 18 I was doing that kind of work. The owner of the company had his master electricians license and everyone just worked "under" it. The only time it ever came up was when a meter was being installed in the city limits and the city inspector would want someone to sign the paperwork.
My MIL bought a house and I rewired the whole thing except running the wires from the meter base to the inside panel. She called a licensed electrician out to do it. Worst wiring I've ever seen, The male connector they used as a bushing was upside down. Plus it was a bottom fed panel. They came in the bottom of the panel, looped the line wires around and came into the top of the lugs. You could only use half of the breaker space. Kind of scared me, it was so bad.

Last edited by goodman_hunter; 02/07/25 06:35 PM.
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