It would have been far easier to repair to have snapped 2 straight lines and made 2 long cuts and removed that whole section.
Now your stuck trying to patch a bunch of odd ball sized holes.
The joists between the lights are shown in blue in the very rough drawing below. To get the wire from light A to light B, holes have to be drilled in the joists, and when there is a finished floor above, you have to cut some holes in the ceiling.. Some people cut a hole between every joist and some cut a hole between every other joist. A hole between every joist is quicker and a hold between every other joist means less drywall repair. If often boils down to cost; who costs less, the electrician or the drywaller.
And HVAC ducts can create problems.
Some will try to to drill blindly with a long flexible bit, but it can have a mind of its own and drill through the floor above or anything in between holes like ductwork and plumbing.
It would have been far easier to repair to have snapped 2 straight lines and made 2 long cuts and removed that whole section.
Now your stuck trying to patch a bunch of odd ball sized holes.
Am a noob to wiring , but I have 2 x 200 amp panels installed by electrician from a 320 amp transformer and need to run power to my rv pedestals from the panels and several sheds(lights, plugs) all within 100' to 150' away from my main panels, so do I need to run 4guage single aluminum wire to pedastels and a different wire to my sheds .... what wire do I run to these two different places from my panels ?
Any advice would help, looking asap
THANKS
Doing some painting and a few other improvements in a 1940s house we just bought. I removed a 3 prong outlet to see how it was wired. The wire is 2 wire / no ground, and the previous owner had made a white wire jumper to go from the neutral terminal to the ground terminal. Was there ever a time when that was allowed?
03-03-21, 01:11 PM
