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So, say you have a electrical gang-box that needs upgrading, located behind some wooden panelling that ends about 10 inches below the box with no obstructions. Do you:
a) Remove the old box, slightly enlarge the wall opening to accomodate the dimensions of the new box, and push a new flush-mounted box into the panelling in the place where you want to install it, snaking the wiring up under the panelling to the box?
or
b) Say, "Screw that", and simply take a Sawz-All to the (original, probably irreplacable) panelling so that now there's all the space in the world to install a stud-mounted box?
Guess which option my electrical contractors chose?
The really annoying thing is that a different crew on Monday installed a brand new double gang-box outlet in the wall under my computer table, having to cut a new hole for it through the exact same type of panelling and run wire from under the subfloor, and they did an awesome job. In a place where no one's likely to notice it. As opposed to this box, which is in the most visually-prominent spot in the kitchen.
Grr. So if you were me, what would you be demanding from the contractor right now?
- Repair? I don't know if it can be repaired without looking like an obvious patch - and besides, the section they took out is unusable and I don't know if it's possible to find matching replacement panelling (this stuff's 50 years old).
- Ask for a discount - which does nothing to fix the cosmetic problem? Or get a quote from a remodelling contractor and ask that the electrician pay for it?
- Have the Corian countertop backsplash run high enough to cover the damage? That would probably look silly.
I'm stumped. Suggestions?
Inside view.
I covered the tape with the last sheet of the moley that I sticked on it.
So you have an inside cover perfectly clean.
The first real photo stop of the 5 day visit to Aus. The sun had not long risen and I was greeted with this scene not far into Royal National Park, where the road crosses the Hacking River.
Mein Wort zum Bild:
www.boschblog.de/2010/04/10/baecker/
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Emmanuel Goldstein (@2600), Aleph (@techberto) and Denerval Cunha (@Curupira) after more one hacker meeting in YSTS 1.0
Hack the Debate. The first presidential debate integrating web 2.0 technology in this new media generation. A partnership between Current and Twitter, the Galapagos televised the presidential debate by engaging the audience in commentary through twitter.
A sampling of custom trucks we've built at Hack Shack. Some dropped to the ground, and some lifted to the sky.
Bolted on my chunk of wood, put in the extra screw to fill the first hole (the one closest to the center), and now I'm ready for the thermometer
This interesting bridge abuts Hackness Hall (over the wall on the left) and is unusual in that pedestrians get their own little bridge to pass through, there is one on the left, not too clearly seen here and out of use I guess as the modern road has no paved pathway on that side. Hackness Hall is the private country house of the Barons' Derwent ,a title taken from the local river and less of a mouthful than their workaday names, the current Baron being: Robin Evelyn Leo Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 5th Baron Derwent.