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I just get out of the business if they held me for that. I'm an electrician and I do electrical work. Well now, they didn't have this before. My friend, I was showing him how to do it because I can't do work because I don't have any insurance on his house. But he was buying these electrical baseboards and instead of them having copper wire, they had aluminum wire. I couldn't believe that the company wouldn't spend a dollar more just to use copper wire where it's connected because it's very difficult for someone who never wired before to actually put an aluminum wire and a copper wire together and to do it right, put a wire nut on it and have it not touch fire. But that's what happened. It finally inside his wall, he had a fire. Luckily, it smothered out. All the stuff they got out there, I wouldn't even want to be held reliable, especially if they're coming back with losses. Oh yeah, I remember doing electric boilers. I argued and thought with my boss that there was no frickin' way we were putting any electric boiler in with aluminum wire. I hate that crap. They say you're safe going one gauge up, but when you're pulling 100 amps into a boiler, I don't trust aluminum. We did some retrofits on some commercial stuff that was aluminum and showed up and running the wires and pulling the new wire. All the electricians were freaking out because, well, I'm not an electrician. I said, well, I don't need to be. We have our license. We're able to do it. They said, yeah, but you're spending all this money putting in copper. I said, hell yes. We ripped out all the aluminum, put in copper, and then they freak out when you pull out the correct tool to do the job. I've got a mini torque wrench for torquing down breaker screws and boiler screws. Right tools for the right job, eh?