As an electrician, I do not understand why builders and contractors only put in what is the minimum code requirements. They figure that the prospective buyer will not notice the number of plugs until they have already bought the house. This is a national problem. I am so tired of hearing "it is not required."
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Tangent: Do any of you remember a few years (or decades) ago when a big storm hit Florida and there was a neighborhood where two different builders built homes on each side of the street? One side had 1/2 of the roofing blown off while on the other side not 1 shingle blew off. The good builder commented (in broken English)," how do the other contractors sleep at night(doing inferior work)?".
--- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, Jan Flood <jan.flood2@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for the comments. My only knowledge of electricity is turning a light on and off :) Would defnitely have the electrician do it, however, it sounds more costly than I had hoped. It would probably be fairly easy to run it under the house and up -- but the labor would be much higher. Lived with it for 6 years so will continue. One of the things I loved about building our own homes, I had all the outlets I needed, where I needed them!
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> Don't understand the builder though, this is an upper-middle class home, guess that's what you'd call it, less than 20 years old. He was/is a skilled builder and his homes are sought after for the high quality. So why are there so few outlets in the house? It couldn't have been cost, wonder if it was something as simple as the area? Maybe builders in the midwest didn't put a high priority on that type of thing?
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