| Shotsie |
10-22-2011 04:26 PM |
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Originally Posted by Bill8
(Post 18508921)
I'm not talking about what electricians call themselves, I'm talking about what they were called in my area when subcontracted out as part of residential contruction projects. There are probably regional differences in what such specialized teams are called, here they were called installers.
I hired them, I worked alongside them, I signed off on their work as the stages progressed, I paid them, I know that what I am talking about is not what you just described above - most of which is irrelevant to new home construction.
Installation trades for residential contruction come and go in a series of waves as a house is being built. The subbing companies set up specialized teams that move from house to house, and thats pretty much all they do, is installation in new construction. It's a trade subspecialty.
Have you done it? That kind of work? Installations in new residential houses.
And right now those teams are mostly out of work. There is only a fraction of that kind of work going on as there was during the oughts residential home boom.
I don't understand why you are bringing up a bunch of other electrician specialties that have nothing to do with what is being discussed. We started out talking about roofing. Typical roofing is a residential specialty - roofing for commercial buildings is another speciality that typically requires a fairly different set of skills and laborers.
Not that commercial building hasn't crashed as well, but I wasn't talking about that.
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Well, the guys you're describing would be residential wireman, otherwise known as romex jockeys. The kind of contractor that you're talking about that does mostly ground up residential work on tract homes for big builders like Toll Brothers or Hovnanian typically does service work as well. I was pointing out the fact that licensed electrical contractors usually do any type of work that they can handle, whether it's service work or ground up work doesn't really matter to them, money is money. Any electrician that can do ground up work can do service work as well, a contractor isn't limited in the types of jobs he can take, and he certainly isn't going to turn down work if he's slow. The same guys that wire those tract homes are the same guys that might come to your house to troubleshoot some lights that aren't working or install a ceiling fan, that's all I was pointing out.
To answer your question though, yes, I have wired a couple houses. |
