Nope. Wires should not be cut.


On the other hand, when they sheetrocked my neighbors house using mostly
glue, they sheetrocked over the outlets and did not come back to cut out
outlets until after the glue dried so the glue was useless. They had to
comeback and screw down all of the sheetrock. The homeowner was concerned
that the sheetrock was not on tightly because the outlets pushed it out so
even with the holes cut the sheetrock was slightly buckled out. 10 years
later the house is fine with no unusual nailpopping.

Whereas after that fiasco, I met the sheet rock hangers at my house under
construction and made sure they cut holes as they went and the sheetrock was
up tight against the walls held by glue. Notwithstanding, I have tons of
nailpops. My belief is that glue sucks for sheetrock. I think it holds the
sheetrock too tight to the studs so when studs move as house settles you get
more nail pops. My next house will only used screws for sheetrock.



"SteveB" wrote in message
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Yesterday, a team of aliens (Martian, I believe) came and started to
sheetrock my new addition. They worked 1.5 hours, since they had trouble
locating my house and didn't get there until 3.

After they left, I noticed that they had sheetrocked over outlet boxes,
and rotozipped around and in boxes, cutting the insulation of wiring in 6
boxes. They cut the tv and phone cable in two inside the boxes.

When I called the owner, he had an attitude and said that was the way its
done today in the State of Utah, and that they go back and find the box
and cut it out. He also said that it was common practice for the
electrician to fix the wires, and since it was electrical, it was his
responsibility to make sure it was right before heating up the wires.

Is this common practice today?

Steve