A recent call from a out of State crew called with switching and lighting issues on original commercial wiring near me? The crew could not go home until the projects that they were working on were 100% completed and this was the last issue that was holding them up as no one on their crew could figure it out?
The service call problem was 1 kitchen lighting and 1 ceiling light for an office along with 2 gang switch box for control. Scheduling the project meant after normal business hours repairs evening work for me and one other of my crew member.
Arrived onsite and spoke with their crew leader and his explanation of the electrical issues? Discover that to the original described electrical issues that also splices were discovered in the attic area X 3 different octagon metal box locations that also are part now of this original wiring issue?
Crawl up into attic area and do visual inspection on the 3 splice octagon metal box locations and discover yet more nightmares of many NMB romex cables of #14 2 & #12 2 mixed together going God knows where and many wire nuts and wires wrapped into a twisted mess in each of these 3 splice box locations.
It worked once make it work again was the crew leaders message to me. Bewildered why anyone would want to keep such a mess as this original wiring harness was in? And it was explained that the the original wiring would be upgraded in next phase of their projects that were upcoming. The old wiring harness just needed to work as temporary power till those projects were then completed.
The fix was to disconnect all wiring within each of the 3 attic splice locations and tone generate each wire individually for line, switch leg, neutral, ground it worked once make it work again, it was also discovered that 2 separate circurit breakers were controlling each light and switching individually.
What took the good ole boys many hours to try and figure out was completed in 2 hours by myself and one other of my crew member by performing the testing of the original wiring issues.
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