Some dipshit spackled over live electrical components

It's old, they ripped it back to wood lathe. And then got some Mexicans to put up drywall. So there's your dipshits haha.

I'm not sure what it is, that's why I have you guys!(electricians)😁

Anyone here an electrician?
I have a quick question

I have aluminum wiring and I bought a CO/ALR Switch from Leviton which was reccomended to me from the guy at home depot. I just want to double check and make sure that I can wire it right up to it.

@Deleted User @John O - @RevStench ☝🏻 Brass on deck.

@Deleted User Yes, the ALR designation means aluminum

Does it's have copper or brass contacts instead of steel?

Are you just swapping out an outlet or are you having trouble with the outlet?

Aluminum wiring can be dangerous, it can overheat enough to start a fire without tripping the breaker.
@Deleted User

And what John said

Nah, aluminum is fine. All our feeder wire is aluminum in the commercial projects I do

Plus, typically range wire in houses

Sometimes HVAC feeds

Yeah but if it's old, you can't assume.

I just want to make sure he's not having a wire issue or if he's just swapping out an outlet.
I ❤ you @John O - bro, and I appreciate what you do😃

no homo

Haha

Good point, though. @Deleted User why are you switching it out?

I'm just swapping the light switch

I will be replacing the outlets once I recieve my order of these. https://www.homelectrical.com/alumiconn-2-port-lug-aluminum-copper-wire-pack-25.kic-95025.1.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI146X-uaA2QIV1brACh0xlgl7EAYYASABEgJI-_D_BwE

@Deleted User I saw that and almost had a brain aneurysm. But it's UL listed, guess it's good

It has the gel inside it that keeps the copper from oxydizing. Looked more sturdy to me than just buying the pigtail AL/CO caps and the gel.

I've been double and tripple checking all this stuff. I had an electrician fix the worst stuff.

Now I just want to change out the light sockets with the usb ones. Figured I could do that myself since I have done it before. Just have never done it with aluminum.

But with the light switch, I am good to go, right?

Yeah

Awesome. Thanks brother.

Np

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I love DIY

I almost forgot this server existed. I'll have to post some before and after pics of the rooms I am renovating when I am done.

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If your home was built before 1978 be mindful of lead paint/dust.

silica dust is yummy

They don't make you guys use the HEPA vacuums?

We use one, I work primarily in residential. We have to set up little containment barriers. And I have to keep up with OSHA lead saftey classes. That's every 5 years, plus all those other OSHA saftey classes(fall prevention, ladder, scaffolding safety, lock out/tag out for the occasion I'm in an industrial building ect...) Then for KY I have to take lead abatement classes, pretty much the same stuff as OSHA. It's a lot.

That's bullshit

We have attachments that suck the silica out of the hole while you drill. Pretty easy, and better than dying before you're 55

My carbide scraper has a vacuum attachment. I wear a respirator almost all day.

I wish they would buy us fucking respirators

I'm surprised they don't have them for you.

No, you have to get cleared by a doctor, and my company is huge, so they say no across the board