I hate lazy-ass contractors....

[wkearney99]

For the longest time I've had an Audiowizard amp for my steam shower that's been languishing on a shelf, waiting for me to install it.  Trouble is, I had to run a second control cable from the touchscreen in the shower back to the control location.  Yeah, poking holes in drywall on the opposite sides of the rooms, all because the contractor didn't pull the second line THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE BOX.  Which, I suppose was a blessing in disguise because in trying to snake through the second one I found the first one was wrapped more than once around the live steam line.  Just great! Thankfully the jacket on the cable wasn't melted enough to be a problem.  So now I have more holes in the walls than a frat house after a raging kegger. 
 
And, of course, they didn't leave me a 110 box in the access panel as the plans indicated.  Nor is the nearest outlet close enough to avoid having to go through at least one stud.  
 
All so I can stream audio to the shower.  Wretched excess has it's costs, I suppose.
 
Now I just need to find a way to make the Dot usable from the shower.  The steam unit audio accepts streaming from a bluetooth source (like a phone or tablet).  With luck it'll also pair from a Dot.

 

[IVB]

My house was built in 1911, the stuff I see in the basement has me recoil. Comcast ziptied cables to HV lines, random stuff wired to the water lines. I have an awesome handyman, we just did some electrical work, he and I spent hours trying to determine which circuit the junction boxes were wired too. There are places where I have 5 in 8 linear feet. I haven't counted, but there are dozens in the crawlspace. I have a 1700 sqft 1 story house, absolutely zero reason for this.
 
And then there's the shmoes that the prior owner hired to extend the house. Random fireblocks in various locations, turns out the attic space was built with whatever wood the guys had laying around as occasionally there's 4 in-congruent sizes meeting at the corner.
 
Last August I "accidentally" ripped a room to the studs. We were just supposed to move an inner closet wall, but when we tore down the existing one I realized I actually had 3 distinct walls. Owners over the years never removed a prior wall, they'd just put up a new one. I got so angry I took a hammer to the whole wall and told him I was re-focusing him (and I did much work over the weekends myself).
 
I still have plaster/lathe in 90% of the house, god I hate that stuff. Impossible to touch a wall without ripping all down. I replace it with acoustic inwall insulation & sheetrock as I go, but one day i'll take 4 months off and take out the whole first floor.

 

[LarrylLix]

Protect your lungs from asbestos inhalation. Most of the earlier plasters contained asbestos and mesothelioma is nothing to sneeze at .

My brother died of it after 20 years of suffering in hospitals wondering wtf was wrong with him. He walked through a dusty boiler room each day for a summer job and died 35 years later.

YMMV.

Oh and those cheap surgeon's masks they use on the soap operas are for containing sneezes of sick people, not inhalation protection.

 

[Del91574]

Keep in mind, a 110V JB is normally considered buried no matter if there's an access panel to get to it or not and would be considered a code violation in my locale.