John Grabowski wrote:

You are demonstrating your inexperience in your statement. For one
thing "your own home" becomes someone else's home at some point.
True, one can determine that the conductor is shorted or open, but
when things are not


You should be able to do what you want in YOUR home. After all, it
would be YOUR family and YOUR friends that could be killed.


*Killing your own family and friends would certainly be rewarding
enough for doing whatever you want in your own home.

And if the extension he's planning is to his son's iron lung that he has to
have because he can no longer afford the expensive care at the nursing
facility?

There's always an exception to almost every rule, law, or code.