They you really have no basis upon which to stand with respect to your initial "blue wire" posting, or any criticism of posters such as Doug who have, over the years, evidenced a clear understanding and familiarity with the NEC as applied in the United States.
The fact remains, you *lied* in your original description of what the bozo was 'doing wrong'.
Those who took your *INACCURATE* description at face value, and made the mistake of believing _what_you_said_ -- they *were* correct in pointing out the error of your "as reported" violation.
What the 'bozo' was =actually= doing -may- have been 'wrong' and/or a 'code violation'.
What you SAID HE WAS DOING WRONG, was _not_, as described, a violation.
"Union card" or not, you're not "protected" from disciplinary action when you make overt errors such as that.
Just to clarify: the common wiring to a wall switch has the same black/white/bare wires as to a socket, but BOTH THE BLACK AND WHITE ARE LIVE. The white wire, therefore, IS 'used' for something else, and for that reason it must be marked (usually with a wrap of colored tape) as 'nonneutral'. When you add that extra tape to tag the wire, it effectively becomes no longer a 'white' color wire.
First I didn't post any of that confusion. Learn to read attribution lines and stop the bottom posting confusion with poorly designed readers.
Second the switch wiring is common practice and there is nothing in the Can code about using the white for hot. It does not need to be marked with tape. Our code only states the neutral shall be marked.
Didn't realize I would start such a thread. I hired an electrician. He tied the 110 armor cable ground to the same ground used for the 220 circuit (duh). He put in a few new 4 gang boxes and two switched outlets. I could have done the switched outlets but I would have run wire back and forth a few times and he did it in a single 3 conductor run, as it should be done. $150 well spent.
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