Deleted User: You get electrocuted taking a shower ?

Riverrat: Well to answer your question you could burn the house down and everyone in it die. I doubt that would happen but that would be the worst that could happen.

weave: That could be the outcome if I let my buddy Walt continue. I learned a lot about this shit after the fact -- like we should have been running 12 gauge everywhere not 14 ... sigh.... "Hey, I put in 20 amp circuits for you" and I go and look and it's a 20 amp breaker on a 14 gauge wire. :-( So now I have to go replace all those breakers since that's easier than replacing the wiring in the walls. (Yeah, this is 14 gauge too but why not? The line feeding up to here is 14 as well and that goes through a wall we rebuilt a bathroom around....)

Mutts_Nuts: ^ so Walt fucked up then!!!

Riverrat: 14 gauge wire should only be used in a lighting circuit with a 15 amp breaker. You need 12 gauge wire if you have 20 amp breakers.

Homer: And u still let the idiot work n ur house?

UncleJesse: Just splice together wire hangers.

weave: Nah Homer, he doesn't work in it anymore. I do my own electrical work now and doing it by code. He buried some junction boxes behind drywall too. I found out that's a no no too. Some of it I'm not going to tear a wall out to fix but I'm certainly going to replace my 20 amp breakers with 15 amp ones. I don't need 14 gauge wire acting like a fuse.

Riverrat: I don't use 14 gauge wire for anything. It's better to have it over wired then under wired. It's too easy to overload an outlet with 14 gauge wire and a 15 amp breaker.

weave: Yeah, I know. If i was doing it over again I'd do 12. But all my feeds from my panel are all 14 gauge and unless I rerun them all back to the panel, it really doesn't matter at this point. I just have to drop the breakers down to 15 amp.