An electrician ‘fixed’ an issue by making this hole in a basement cinder block wall.
… how do I put that box back in or fix the wall or something?
Inside the box are two capped (hot) wires.
The pipe seems to be copper. Doesn’t bend or anything. It can’t (at least easily) be pushed back in.
I had wanted to use cement paste… but like what do I do about the box? I guess I could paste everything except the metal pipe but geez: then i still have this sketchy box hanging out.
Images: https://imgur.io/a/yBh2QBD (posted from mobile and don’t think the images went through)
Any ideas?
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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
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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.
