nancy3•24d ago

A sub called me out on my rough-in order and it saved my butt on a big job

I was wiring a 12-unit apartment building in Atlanta and getting complaints from the drywall crew about my boxes being off. One of the subs finally pulled me aside and said I was running my rough-in without marking my top plates first, which made everything drift. I started snapping chalk lines on the ceiling joists before pulling any wire, and my box alignment went from trash to perfect in one day. Has anyone else had a basic framing step totally change how their electrical rough-in goes?

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the_taylor24d ago

Man I learned that exact same lesson the hard way on a duplex. Chalk lines on the joists saved me a ton of headache from the rockers.

thompson.xena24d ago

My buddy Mark snapped three chalk lines before his drywall guys even showed up.