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My neighbor had an inspection for rooftop solar yesterday. In California the AHJ is allowed to perform just one inspection for solar and that is the final inspection. The inspector was there for less than four minutes. The house is two story with five bedrooms and there wasn't time enough to verify the smoke and CO alarms much less perform an inspection of the solar. I don't know if the work passed inspection but the contractor and owner were all smiles.
 
An inspector sent me this. The next step is installing the windows.
The plans call for a MST48 at each corner. The contractor installed CS18. It is dutifully nailed to the entire header and sill. At the sill it is in the way of the window nailing flange.

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Whats the purpose of the adjustable connectors above the window … the ones that have been mashed flat?
 
classicT said:
e hilton said:
Whats the purpose of the adjustable connectors above the window … the ones that have been mashed flat?
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Force Transfer Around Openings.... it is an engineered design that allows for partial credit of shear resistance from the sheathing around the opening.

Learn more from APA @ https://www.apawood.org/ftao
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Sorry... if you were referring to the connectors at the rim board, it is likely an additional connection from the rim board to the top/bottom plates of the wall above/below. If they are Simpson A35, they should have been installed on the inside of the rim where they would not have been smashed flat. Looks suspect. But it is clearly an engineered design, so need to know what the engineer designed to know more for sure.
 
Hope they ordered a window with tempered glass?

Should be a gap between OSB panels, oh well, same thing happens here.
 
250.53(G) Rod and Pipe Electrodes.
The electrode shall be installed such that at least 2.44 m (8 ft) of length is in contact with the soil. It shall be driven to a depth of not less than 2.44 m (8 ft).

This was done by a licensed general contractor. There is ample evidence that the contractor should not be performing electrical work. Had anyone involved known much about the electrical code requirements the rod would be driven to a couple inches above the concrete. While that is short of 8' it has been an accepted practice forever.

The label is the true indication that they are clueless and not because they didn't read it. Since the label is present, the typical reply, "That's a ten foot long rod" will not suffice as usual. They didn't know that there is a ten foot rod available and perhaps they would not lie even if they did. Now the GEC and armor are too short but luckily, there is just one rod.

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Besides the rod not driven far enough, do you have testing results of 25 ohms or less so that they can only drive one rod? See 250.53(2) 2017 NEC. It also looks like that condensing unit may be supplied with flexible cord, but can't tell for sure.
 
Norcal said:
Besides the rod not driven far enough, do you have testing results of 25 ohms or less so that they can only drive one rod?
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They wouldn’t know what an ohm is. The lucky part of the single rod is that there is less wast of #4 GEC and armor. But looking at the picture I think that I could be wrong about the single rod. The GEC doesn’t stop at the rod. ….but maybe it continues to the water main. Who knows….

The picture was sent to me by an inspector and the condenser was not mentioned by him.
 
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ICE said:
They wouldn’t know what an ohm is. The lucky part of the single rod is that there is less wast of #4 GEC and armor. But looking at the picture I think that I was wrong about the single rod. The GEC doesn’t stop at the rod.

The picture was sent to me by an inspector and the condenser was not mentioned by him.
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250.53(2) still applies, no test a 2nd rod is required & is the quickest & cheapest way to comply, the testing equipment is expensive and need to be qualified to perform the testing.
 
I can't say that I have ever seen a grounding rod set that high before, looks to far out in the pic to have hit a spread footer? The ground rod indicating 8-ft is diffently calling out ....WRONG on the install.
 
ICE said:
Plan check engineers get tired of the BS.

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I find this slightly shocking. Dunno about your codes of conduct in the U.S., but it's drilled into our heads (and now encapsulated in law) that we are not to provide design guidance. The most I'd expect is "submit designs that comply with [insert code or standard reference.]

fatboy said:
That correction notice is flippen ridiculous! The contractor should scream, how about something I can read. I would have an inspector on the carpet in front of me.
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Charge the AHJ for translation from Coptic to English.

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That's ingenious.

ICE said:
They wouldn’t know what an ohm is.
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People are so resistant to knowledge.
Thank you, I will be back later this week.
 
I was cleaning up the photo library and found this picture from a virtual solar inspection. There's a bunch of it and I didn't see it until now.

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Here's another photo from a virtual inspection:

The #4 was moved so that there is paint where the setscrew engages.

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Is it damage or dirt?

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