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Originally Posted by Shotsie
There's four different types of electricians:
Lineman: the guys that work for the power companies. PECO, Con-Edison, PSEG, etc.
inside wireman: the guys who install the power, lighting, controls and other electrical equipment in commercial and industrial buildings.
Telecommunications: the guys that do data and phone, Verizon guys, etc. otherwise known as phone fags.
Residential wireman: specialize in installing all of the electrical systems in single-family and multi-family houses or dwellings.
But there's no subspecialty for doing service work, either one of the wiremen do that. If you can do commercial and industrial work you can handle anything residential. An apprenticeship for residential is only three years, everything is cake in a residential dwelling, it's all single phase 120/240 romex.
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I'm not talking about what electricians call themselves, I'm talking about what they were called in my area when subcontracted out as part of residential contruction projects. There are probably regional differences in what such specialized teams are called, here they were called installers.
I hired them, I worked alongside them, I signed off on their work as the stages progressed, I paid them, I know that what I am talking about is not what you just described above - most of which is irrelevant to new home construction.
Installation trades for residential contruction come and go in a series of waves as a house is being built. The subbing companies set up specialized teams that move from house to house, and thats pretty much all they do, is installation in new construction. It's a trade subspecialty.
Have you done it? That kind of work? Installations in new residential houses.
And right now those teams are mostly out of work. There is only a fraction of that kind of work going on as there was during the oughts residential home boom.
I don't understand why you are bringing up a bunch of other electrician specialties that have nothing to do with what is being discussed. We started out talking about roofing. Typical roofing is a residential specialty - roofing for commercial buildings is another speciality that typically requires a fairly different set of skills and laborers.
Not that commercial building hasn't crashed as well, but I wasn't talking about that.