Let me unequivocally state that playing Russian Roulette is always a very bad idea and we always recommend never playing it! That said...

We've seen quite a few home handyman electrical wiring jobs. This recent one tops our current list of "Who would have thought..."

I had finished inspecting the main electrical panel and had found two circuit breakers missing along with the open hole in the interior panel cover. (Which is very unsafe because it allows direct access to the interior of the main panel where lots of volts and lots of amps reside.) OK, two breakers are completely gone and the interior panel has an open hole in it at about head height for a 10 year old child. Very unsafe, very accessible and very dumb!

Later while inspecting the garage, this is what I found.



Go figure. This is one of the missing breakers. We never recommend wiring a breaker into a glob of wires and just suspending it in midair but that is what our home handyman did. Very unsafe. This picture still gives me the willys! I still wonder from time-to-time where that second breaker went...

 

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