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Residential Electrical Wiring for the Warehouse Rehab
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" Right now want to interrupt Eddie Fisher our electrician. I RAF. I don't Bob good good good you've got about five or six guys on your crew working on this building so you really tearing through it. You want to finish this is weekend -- I want to talk to you about New York City building codes in terms of the electrical rough. It's pretty sophisticated here right yes over here we use BX armored cable armored cable everywhere everywhere. And so everything we're looking up tears and -- came -- old fashioned armored. Katie yes and the way we do it is after what she's -- then we -- up -- Inside on the -- there was other pushing for us the little red thing I guess it doesn't cut and today cable the wire doesn't cut into the case. OK and have a secondary ground which we. Put this around the cable yet so in case anything happens to the ground there's not a good connection -- secondary. The secondary ground pulls it through -- why is this better than just the vinyl clad cable because. It lasts and lasts longer and the vinyl clad cable it's easier to penetrate if you don't. Work with sheet rock wood and nails or anything else comes into grounds from metal to metal hot -- never have a disruption of grounding wire anywhere around -- Whereas in the plastic -- you need to grounding wire. And sometimes it. Breaks or it doesn't that make a good connection in here Tom what we got going so this is what they're switching system. And we have to on the cable coming in and as you notice we have. They have connections right inside the box yes all you have to do is just cut their armor. And then you install it inside and then you just stood and with a screwdriver deadlock students that doesn't Woolsey always have a good ground. OK now are you also wiring for cable and computer and yes yes this is far out. Cable TVs. Right over here and flopped telephoned him to -- we have -- putting all of that at duke. And what about -- main riser and main riser is going to be coming down from downstairs. We have a 10220. Coming to each panel box now do they let use aluminum non human. -- copper only copper only all right so. Here we've got this metal studs everywhere so how do you go about attaching your your work life and David is going to be installing a GFI in the back. Solid selling the box and the Soviet ground fault interrupt you just wears -- required. Transient and anyway area. Plus he's going to be bringing direct line from the panel box straight to the front pulled out. Directly to each one yet on -- Rashid. Hung grandeur of the first of July you were quiet. A separate line from the panel box to big platform -- That's one clean cut. And then -- Eddie from the point of view of making the connection there and explain yeah you insert again the plastic bushing. And you put this secondary ground around the -- of -- armored cable yeah. And then he's going to make a hole in the box in the top of the box. Where is the man. She -- the cable inside. -- you have to still on the other side where you just tighten up on the cable into the box. So it makes quick work that went for it well. All right -- amenity that we're -- five men that's the radio yes all right we'll get out you can't thank you thanks didn't."