Time to break out the assault rifle!

[Dick Adams]

Sorry, I thought you meant it was recent new construction. My money is on the previous owners upgrading the electricity themselves.

Dick

[krw]

You're going to have to move the box anyway (it has to be accessible) so you might just as well put an outlet in it.

[Oren]

My home is about ten years old. I found a hidden/secluded electric box that should have never been the way it was - hidden. It was not the previous owner as he was in an asylum, he was a union electrician.

The builder labor hid the box; was my guess.

-- Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

[volts500]

I'd say he's gonna need a lot of ammo before he finally shoots the _right_ person responsible for that hack job. A lot can happen to a house in 45 years. Looks to me like that door was cut in after the house was built. Why would a receptacle outlet be placed that close to a door in new construction? Aren't rough openings for doors usually double-framed? That one doesn't seem to be. I haven't met a carpenter yet who will notch a double-frame for an electric box. Looks to me like whoever installed the door decided not to double-frame it, possibly because the electric box was in the way, was also the same person who didn't have the forsight to see that the door trim would be in the way of the outlet and/or cover plate, then to finish the hack job notched the stud (also something that most carpenters refuse to do). Sorry, but that looks like a classic DIY hack job.

[Stormin Mormon]

At a parts house near me, they told of a fellow who was buying many feet of 16 gage lamp cord. Someone asked why, he said he was rewiring his house and that was a lot easier to fish through the walls.

[Stormin Mormon]

Good Fast Cheap

Choose any two

[Tom The Great]

What you showed rightfully made you mad. The potential for danger was there, and glad you are fixing it. I have run into people who know the danger exists, but can do nothing about it(lack of funds, knowledge, etc.) Have a safe and Merry Christmas!

tom @