One of our first stops seemed so simple on paper. Go to a vacation rental and replace a fan. We arrive at the house and I promptly get to work dismantling the old fan and prepping it to come down while Jeremy starts prepping the new fan to go up. I casually mention to Jeremy that this ceiling seems awfully steep* and that just last week while installing similar fans I noticed a warning label that said “Do not install at an angle greater then 20 degrees”. He and I swap spots and he starts to take the existing fan down as I start meticulously pouring over the directions making sure there’s nothing about how steep or shallow a ceiling needs to be.

Lucky us! Nothing in the paperwork about mounting on steep ceilings….well take a look at the picture to see how that worked out.

Ahhhh, another fantastic Monday.

*if you’re not aware, a “standard” house in the Poconos usually features a great room with a vaulted ceiling and a loft area that overlooks.

I’m relatively new to the trade, so keep in mind that I haven’t seen nearly as much half-assed, poor and overall just not up to code work as some other more experienced people have.

Lucky for us, today’s house had a basement, which is a nice surprise compared to your average Pocono crawl space. Even if it’s not tall enough to stand up in, has a two inch layer of dust everywhere and what I’m sure was a serial killers victim’s last words scraped into the wall(really just a innocent game of tic-tack-toe…scraped into the basement wall?!?) I ALWAYS prefer a basement to a crawl space.

So I ventured into the basement to find a junction box Jeremy said most likely existed. I found it, mounted above five water pipes in such a way you had to nearly become intimate with the pipes to access the box. After getting closer to some hot water pipes then I’d like, I was able to un-splice all the wires in the box, which is when I snapped this picture.

Now like I said, I’m kinda new to this, but I don’t remember a note in the box fill section of the code that said “The shorter you cut your wires, the less they count towards you’re overall box fill”. If someone would be kind enough to point that code out to me I’d appreciate it very much.

-Jesse

After an early morning(a 1am alarm is never happy), a long drive and a ton of new knowledge we’re finally on our way back to the WB headquarters as certified AV level 2 residential EVSE installers.