Home Depot ad for using their electricians

Like Roy said, a mud ring would help: :slight_smile:

Hey Larry how you doing Brother?

Still above ground, my friend…and loving’ life. :smiley:

You good?

Yes Sir! Always good to here from you.

Here’s what I see as violations.

Romex wrap not cut back
No mud ring
White and black wires should go to opposite sides of device
If continuing a circuit, wire to device should be pigtailed
If the OSB sheathing is an exterior wall it should be an airtight box.

That’s a long list of mistakes if your using that photo to sell electrical work.

What!

In Minnesota airtight boxes for exterior wall moumts.

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Home Depot knows its customers well, doesn’t want to scare them away by showing how its done correctly

I scrolled all the way to the bottom because I saw he was putting the black wire on the neutral side. But it is a GFCI, so it will have a “line” and a “load”. The line usually goes on the top plug and the load usually goes out the bottom plug making everything down stream protected by the GFCI. You would only pigtail it if you wanted the downstream side to not be protected.

Oops, those are USB ports, not GFCI Test and Reset buttons.

In the words of the late great Roseanne Rosanadana, “Nevermind”

I thought the same thing at first. Glad you caught that.

Home Depot needs clearer photo’s. :smiley:

No mud ring required if a raised cover is used. Quite typical and better than a ring and a surface cover for exposed work.

There is nothing wrong with using the device to splice instead of a pigtail.

Part of his head looks like an alien!

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:mrgreen: Now that we have taken this entire ad photo apart, I think HD is trying to sell materials, not workmanship or aliens.

I think that’s the correct answer Brad;-)