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The old farmer that owned my house for decades was supposedly an electrician. Uhhh yeah. What I have found since I have owned the house:
So yeah please do it right.
- He had apparently drug home a "split buss" panel from a job site. There was no main breaker in the panel. If I loaded up the panel by turning everything on the only thing limiting current was the fuse out at the pole.
- 2-pole (220V circuits) being split to feed 120V receptacles in the house.
- 3-prong receptacles wired with 2 conductor (no ground) wire.
- And the grand daddy of them all. Last fall I heard the steel siding on my pole barn buzzing at 60Hz. Very long story but the old boy has used old recycled fabric coated wire as a service entrance. Instead of doing it right he drilled a hole in the wood soffit and looped the wire over the sharp top edge of the siding. The siding eventually wore thru to the wire. The grounds for the siding had corroded to the point of being useless. The whole thing acted as a current splitter. The more loads I turned on in the barn, the more current, the louder the buzz. Turns out the current was getting to ground by jumping from the siding, to an old license plate jammed behind the black pipe for the gas line, then thru the gas line. The license plate was burned.