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.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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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.
Nope. He could have just properly installed the box flush in that wall using plaster of paris or something. He was just to lazy.
Maybe a short talk with a lawyer is not a bad idea if you can afford it.
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.
They make circular conduit cutters not much bigger than the conduit itself. They go for around $25. One of those would easily fit in the opening you have. Be sure to turn the power off to the circuit first though.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/General-Pipe-Cleaners-GPC-1-2-in-Auto-Cut-Copper/1002782800
Is that shit to code?
Electrically speaking it is in the proper housing, but the box is not secured, so I would ding it for that at the very least. I agree about cutting the conduit back and putting in a proper secure box and then cementing around the box. You could also use a surface mount box. In that case you would cut the existing conduit back, put a 90 degree elbow with a enough conduit to extend past the wall edge. Patch the wall and then install a surface mount box where the wires are connected in.
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.
Wow, what did he "fix" then? He did a terrible job. I understand an electrician not fixing the cement block, but they should have properly installed and secured the box flush with the concrete.