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Hey, they just a light for old Saint Nick on his yearly rounds. They just forgot that light bulbs and Flour. tubes need to be changed from time to time....

Dave

when i moonlighted for a major alarm contractor you should have seen some of the boners i saw. One place used to be a gas station, closed in the 70s, when they converted the guy instead of pulling the hoists out of the floor in the garage left them there. put 3 inchs of concrete over them to make em level with the office.
now 25 years later the old hoists started to leak. he had the environment people up his rear so quick, cost quite a bit to decontaminate the place, as well as demo the offices in the former garage to get to the hoists!

You would be amazed what you find behind sheetrock. I was doing a job in a major mall here in quebec where some sheetrock was pulled down in front of 3 of the anchor stores. at the Bay (major department store) there was a simpsons neon sign still there, simpsons folded into the bay in 1989, in front of another pair of stores there were steinbergs and miracle mart signs (2 stores owned by the same company that folded in the early 90s. What ever happened to removing un used wiring ETC these are signs that have not seen the light of day for 20 years and are still there preserved!

above the sheetrock was a suspended ceiling and intact 4 tube 8 foot long flourescent lights, for the fun of it i put my meter on the lights and found they were still powered...

I have an office customer that occupies a space with an 8 foot dropped ceiling. Normal tiles and grid until you pop up a tile and look above. The space could have been a Home Depot with 20 feet above the ceiling to the roof. There are even high bay HPS fixtures up there. Every time I have to run some wire I go out in the hall to an electrical panel and switch them on. Seems I'm the only one who knows what those breakers are for.

-Hal

Went to a friend’s house to put on some phone jacks in a newly finished basement... the electrician already pulled the wire before they drywalled. Of the 6 jacks only one would tone out. There were 8 wires at the 66 block… one toned out; I found another coiled above the water heater (?). After cutting a few big holes in the utility room the cables went through the wall and a beam by the steps, on the other side cut a small hole but no cables. He called the electrician who said “it must have been a bad box of wire or the dry wall guys cut ‘em, but for a price he could fix it.” My friend put an end to cutting his drywall so I put a 25’ cord on the working jack and said good day.

Have a friend who remodeled his garage into a family room. Talked him into a jack centered in every wall. Wasn't easy, he's tighter than a tick! He had a laundry room in 1 corner where all the utilities, including phone came into the garage from the basement. Wanted a jack in the laundry room, so I used a 'biscuit' and also used it as a junction point. TOLD him, LEAVE THE JACK OPENING POINTED DOWN! That was Saturday. Monday evening he calls from the neighbors house, been trying to get the phone to work ANYWHERE in the house since Sunday PM. Yep, he turned the 'biscuit' straight up so it would be easy to plug in the phone. Full of water, and little green fuzzies. Scotchlocked the mess and discarded the jack. "Get a long line cord, Steve." "No, Steve, I'm not going to put another jack there. If you do, DON'T call me when the phones quit again!" John C. (Not Garand)

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