We've rounded up the 10 worst wiring jobs ever.
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Electrician Makes a Mess
Fixing a Bird's Nest
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Wiring Enclosure Disaster
This Can't be Real
Disaster Zone
Rat's Nest in Producer's Home
Most Would Walk Away
  
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Rat's Nest in Producer's Home

This two-day project came to Home Tech Wiring from a movie producer, whose 20,000-square-foot home accumulated a rat’s nest of wiring in the garage.

The garage was home to a 40-inch Leviton panel that had “far more devices than it could correctly hold,” says Robert Casey, president of Home Tech Wiring.

Casey says there is a cable splitter, an intercom system, 110 punchdowns for phones and a router “just hanging in there.”

All of the guts were just hanging there, “sticking out about 4 inches,” he says. “There was no way the panel cover could be put on.”

“They had about 40 phone lines and as many TV jacks,” he says. It was pretty aggressive.”

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