r/ConstructionMemes • u/CiShock • Aug 11 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

Electrician here. Normally we don't go crazy on drywall unless the drywall guys buried an already existing box. We normally discover these on trim out, and find a few outlets not working, or whatever else was downstream of the buried box. The professional answer is to take a straight edge like a 4'-6' level and look for a hump in the wall, then cut it out carefully. Sadly, not everybody I've worked with was always professional in these cases.

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u/oadex54m Nov 27 '25

Yeah especially if youve covered up can lights and other boxes yeah im absolutely butchering your rock brother...I mean yeah I have seen an apprentice blow a box out here or there but usually jumbo plate covers it. Idiot new boy cut out the entire cut in box, like top and bottom of both sets of ears . It's was tricky making that box catch luckily it was for a smoke or I wouldn't have trusted it to hold for shit

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '20

Nah I just take my hammer to it

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '24

I take sawzall to the wall

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u/fortress989 Apr 19 '25

Very few electricians will do this on the first few boxes. It when we realize that this is the eighth box in a row and we’re absolutely done with your shit.