I cannot count the number of times that the painters around here have removed the paint shields from our structured wiring panels and blown paint all over the inside of the can and the wires.

About 6 months ago I had a big prewire with 2 rack locations, two 48in panels, over 40 outlet and keypad locations. I spent half a day wrapping and covering all exposed wire and panel locations. Wrote "Please do not remove" in both english and spanish on the paint shields and masking. Came back after paint to begin trim to find that the painters had renoved EVERY bit of masking and blew paint and texture all over everything. None of sparkys wiring had so much as a drop of paint on it.

Rather then pushing the painters off their scaffolding (I was beyond pissed). I went to the GC and showed him what had been done. Watching a bunch of angry painters cursing at me in spanish while cleaning off a few hundred wire ends made me smile....... Bet they never do that again.

RR