MrDude_1 wrote:wno offense, but Phoenix AZ is full of houses built way too fast with not enough oversight. Im sure you're aware of how fast it grew. lol.
None taken. I know all about the slapdash construction around here.
Iv'e fixed a fair number of things for friends who moved into various places, and scratched my head as I thought "how in the world could they have missed that?" or "what made them do it this way?", etc.
In one expensively built house, I have seen banks of switches near doors for all the outlets in the room, and it was also automated with the X10 stuff so you could control it via internet if you liked. But even in other expensive homes I still only see the same sort of ~1 switched outlet per room, sometimes two or three in a really big room (some of them with one switch for all of them, some individually switched), generally.
And even places like my house, completely rebuilt inside (just original slab walls, beams, and roof remain, except a back room farthest from the fire that had to be totally torn down, dug up, and rebuilt from scratch cuz it was "built wrong") after a fire destroyed a bedroom, all wiring and plumbing/etc had to be brougth up to current code and inspected, and there is just one switched outlet in the rooms that have one. Bathrooms and utility room don't have one at all.
However, I don't know what the codes actually require, or how good the inspection was (not very, from what I can tell so far), cuz some stuff didn't work when I moved back in and I had to fix them. (water heater had one wire not actually in the wire nut, for instance, so it didnt' work at all). Found another problem a few weeks ago (been back here a year now) that worried me, of a wire not all teh way in the wire nut on the stove hood, cuz it mysteriously stopped working one day. Have been checking wire nuts in outlet and siwtch boxes around the house since then, and found no problems yet, but I haven't finished yet. Havent' gotten up in the roof crawlspace to check that stuff yet either. The A/C up on the roof doesnt' work cuz nobody put fuses in it, and never brought them by or installed them after I asked about that, and wouldn't tell me what kind it uses (it's not labelled). I finally found some in my junk boxes last week and put them in, but it still doesnt' actually work for the compressor, and the blower pulls air backwards, blowing *out* the filter intake in the hall, and sucking it out of all the vents in teh rooms.
