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Backstabbing: electrician says all outlets in home should be replaced?
It didn't even occur to me that is what happened because it's so careless, but I'll bet that's exactly what the maids did! I bet the vacuum tripped the circuit breaker on the first outlet, then they plugged the vacuum into the other two outlets without switching the vacuum off first, and those...- kronius
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Backstabbing: electrician says all outlets in home should be replaced?
My initial reaction was that it must have been a defect in the vacuum. That makes sense that it could have just been a problem with the plug that caused arcing. The electrician convinced me that it was a more serious problem because the circuit breaker didn't trip, but I could see how arcing...- kronius
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Backstabbing: electrician says all outlets in home should be replaced?
I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal in Europe, since it is a practice designed to save companies time and money at the cost of making the consumer less safe. I've attaching pictures below so you can see what I mean. In "backstabbing", instead of securing the wires to the screws on the...- kronius
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Backstabbing: electrician says all outlets in home should be replaced?
Hello everyone! We bought a new construction home in 2018. About a week ago, our cleaning service had an incident where our outlet sparked when they tried to use their vacuum cleaner. The maids said that it happened when they plugged the vacuum cleaner into two different outlets and the sparks...- kronius
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