An electrician ‘fixed’ an issue by making this hole in a basement cinder block wall.
… how do I put that box back in or fix the wall or something?
Inside the box are two capped (hot) wires.
The pipe seems to be copper. Doesn’t bend or anything. It can’t (at least easily) be pushed back in.
I had wanted to use cement paste… but like what do I do about the box? I guess I could paste everything except the metal pipe but geez: then i still have this sketchy box hanging out.
Images: https://imgur.io/a/yBh2QBD (posted from mobile and don’t think the images went through)
Any ideas?
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Is that shit to code?
Tell him to come back and finish the job, because that is shit, and you’re paying him to do the whole job, not half-ass it.
Funny enough he claimed this was the job and the only way to fully fix it would be to replace the whole wire pipe and break a line up the wall and fix it… and charge at least a thousand bucks more for the pleasure.
Ridiculous.
Maybe a short talk with a lawyer is not a bad idea if you can afford it.
Nope. He could have just properly installed the box flush in that wall using plaster of paris or something. He was just to lazy.
Pipe? What pipe?
The wire to the box is inside a copper pipe. Its wall -> copper pipe -> electrical box.
The wires are in the copper pipe.
Right then that’s a conduit and you can probably bend it back.
It didn’t want to bend. I wound up hitting it many times with a hammer to bend it inward… not fun but hey it may work out.
Then I’m confused about how this looked before, was the conduit always sticking out?
Nope. There was an access box flush in the wall. He broke the wall, pulled it out and here we are.
You probably want to slip some conduit around the wire to protect it from the mortar, patch the hole, then use a surface mount box screwed to the wall with the wire fed in the back.
The wire is inside a copper pipe. The line going to the box is a copper pipe with 2 wires in it. (I think its already protected.)
If that’s the case, I’d probaby try to cut the copper pipe back, install a 90 degree fitting and do the rest of what I suggested.
Any chance of disconnecting the wire and pulling it out of the conduit? Then you could cut the conduit off inside the wall with a reciprocating saw or better, an oscillating tool, abandoning it.
