OOPS

[Rewired]

Several years ago my buddy Jeff bought this nice older house on the "West mountain" for cheap that he had planned to renovate, add an apartment in the basement and live in the upper half. There was no problem doing this as there is a whole group of us that are involved in the trades and have no problem helping Jeff on this project that took about 2 years to complete... Anyway, about midway through this reno,(and on the coldest day of the winter) the heating system was up for replacement. I being the sparky showed up with a pair of construction heaters and hooked them up to the nice new 200 amp service, no problem LOTS of power there. Randy the drywall and stucco king showed up with one of those propane "salamander" heaters and a 20 pound propane cylinder, but decided not to connect them as the electric heaters were doing a good job of keeping the house up to temperature... Time passes on and more and more things were getting built and installed especially down in the basement, walls started going up, getting drywalled and FINALLY the hot water tank went in.. No problem there... Time passes on again and one Saturday Morning our friend Jim who is a concrete truck driver / "comedian" is down in the basement checking it all out and yells "Hey! Trivia question of the day, how are you going to get THAT" (pointing at the forgotten propane cylinder under the basement stairs) "out from behind THAT" (pointing at the water heater located beside the furnace, yet in the way of gaining access to under the stairs...
After laughing about it for a good 20 minutes to 1/2 hour and trying to figure out how a "bomb" got framed in under the stairs, and after another 15 - 20 minutes of trying to sneak it out around all the plumbing and duct work, with no luck. Poor Randy though he wasn't too happy when he found out we had to remove drywall to remove the "bomb" that belonged to him anyway!!

A.D