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Posted by mm on April 14, 2007, 2:31 pm
On 14 Apr 2007 08:09:04 -0700, stpaulspillars@hotmail.com wrote:
>I just had an electrician over. I realize that he is an electrician
>and I am a no-nothing, so I assume that what he told me was accurate,
I would never assume that anything anyone says is accurate. I was
just thinking about that earlier this morning, after my friend's vet
gave me some very dubious advice, and someone else told me he's bound
to be right because he's a vet. I remember the five times medical
doctors have misdiagnosed me, and how 3 of them at least prescribed
either drugs or surgery totally inappropriately because they had made
the wrong diagnosis, and the orthopedist who set my broken leg
improperly. Three of these six were specialists, and one more
specialist (a seventh doctor) gave me mistaken advice, although it
didn't reach the level of malpractice. None of these doctors were
newbies, they all had a decade or more expeience, plus medical school,
internship, and for the specialists, residency.
And then there was the guy with a new Ph.D. in political science about
to teach a major university especially well known for its political
science department, who made the kind of blunder that I, 22 years old
with a degree in mathematics!, would never have made. Which almost no
one would have made. I don't think any one did more to cost us the
election I was working in. We lost by 4 votes out of 50,000 cast.
It's harder to live without being able to rely on more people, it's
unnerving, but it can also be unnerving to rely on someone who turns
out not to have known what he's talking about.
**
>but still.... I have a light switch in a central location on the
>wall. I want to move that switch further over about a foot closer to
>the edge of the wall. He told me that he would have to cut out the
>drywall between the two points (possibly more depending on wire pipe
>locations), and then we would have to get the drywall repaired and
>repainted.
In addition, to the other questions people have asked, do you have
access to this wall from underneath? You don't have to be able to
tell exactly where the wall is. I just want to know if you there is a
finished ceiling below it or an unfinished space with the floor above
showing or easily accessible.
>Suddenly, moving a light switch turns into a $2,000
>project (my exaggerated estimate, not his). How come the wires that
>are currently in the wiring pipe up to the switch cannot just be
Is metal conduit required, or you just have it for some other reason?
>extended horizontally from point A to point B where the new switch
>would be? Then, he would just cap the old hole with a cover and cut
Yes, a cover. Someone else noticed that.
>out a single square for the new switch.
There are boxes that can be put in walls with holds no bigger than the
box. They're called "old work" boxes, even though they're new,
because everything else is old.
> I understand that I do not
>know NEC codes (or anything about electricity for that matter), but is
>there no easier way to move a light switch one foot?
You could also put an electrostatic pillow in the wall between the old
switch and the new switch. They are about 45 dollars, but no wires
would be required.
You don't think this would work? See, you do know something about
electricity.
**Details of just two example above: 1) I had a pain in my side, and
the first doctor wanted to do an appendectomy. She would have done it
I'm sure if I hadn't gone to see another doctor. I had just a little
bit of fat at the right spot, and despite how small it was, even after
he told me it was there, I just couldn't see around it to see the
bruise on my side. 2) In high school, when I would get dizzy standing
up suddenly, after an EEG, my GP prescribed a drug which I later
learned was for epilepsy. I don't think he told my mother anymore
than he told me, but she wanted to see a specialist. The board
certified neurologish prescribed a second drug in addition to the
first, and when my mother asked if it was habit-forming, he said,
"What do you think we're doing here, Mrs. MM, running an opium den."
He never did answer her question. We had to go see a second
specialist to find one who listened carefully to my story (for
example, it ONLY happend when I stood up.), and took me, over the
course of a couple weeks, off both drugs. Story is too complicated,
but later a prime researcher in epilepsy told me that I didn't have
epilepsy and had never had it. I got dizzy, or feint, just like about
half the papulation does if they stand up too fast.
>Thanks,
>Zack
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