Cutting corners - Panel opening.

Gotta love it Robert :) Love the numbering system too---and the white breakers  make labeling a breeze

Very clever...lol, those little plastic inserts snap right in. He took 5 times as much time doing it wrong! Must be good old Uncle Bob!

Looks like they went to a lot of effort not to spend the $2.

Looks like a quick fix by the owner or previous owner. Pretty scary messing with electricity.

Wow that's hilarious when you're not selling the property or looking to buy it. I see stuff like this in the older homes when they don't have the cash to repair.

It is best to have a licensed electrician to do it the right way.

I guess plastic inserts were not readily available. .

it does not bode well... I would surely check to see if there's any current flowing through that "patch" before I touched it with my hand.

Funny that you wrote this when you did.  My home lights were flickering like crazy and randomly for the last few months.  I finally called out an electrician who came to me after a half hour of tearing the panel apart and showed me a similar cover that was screwed over the back side of about 4 breakers which were tripping regularly it seems.  The previous owner seemed to have a problem with these breakers actually breaking and working, so much so that he decided to lock them into a non-breaking position.  Scarely the hell out of me in that it has been that way the entire 4 years I have been in the house.  All is good now, but your post is an eery reminder.

Even an item as seemingly trivial as an electical box cover can speak volumes and leave impressions with potential buyers-- in this case, the impression left is a damaging one.

Robert, I cracked up as soon as I saw the photo! I can't enough of these inspector posts!!

Robert,

I sure hope they didn't use any screw longer than 1/2 inch...but I suspect they did. The screwy things that some sellers do.

Rich

wow, great info..   Thanks.

The stamped number even look upside down, hope the power is still flowing in and not draining out. Great Post .

"Where else have corners been cut" says it all. Sellers don't realize the message they convey when they do stuff like this. What about the stuff you can't see where corners have been cut? is what the buyer is thinking.

It looks like a rookie punched out too many spaces then ended up covering the panel. You would think his boos or the inspector would have flagged this.

Robert, So you saying sticking a pointed screw into a live electrical panel is a bad thing, shocking ;) Like someone else pointed out it always amazes me someone would take the time to do it wrong when the right way is so much easier. 

The cost doesn't matter, what is important, it's a good solution.

Make it a great weekend!

Hi Robert,

Really. There are a lot of ways to close up a panels front.

I guess this one worked for the installer.

Crazy.

Have a great day in Canada.

Best, Clint McKie