The job is a service upgrade to accommodate PV. This is the old cabinet. You can see that it is a surface mount with KOs missing in the back.
This is the new cabinet. As you can see, it is also a surface mount and it's quite a bit longer than the old cabinet.
This is where the old cabinet was mounted over an old recessed cabinet. The plan was to place the new cabinet over the recessed cabinet/hole.
This method is practiced, mostly unimpeded, on a large scale. I turn it down every time. And every time, I hear "You've got to be kidding. I've done it this way for years and you're the first inspector to say no". I don't think that they are lying about that.
The contractors that do this are not all hacks and bandits either. I have inspected many jobs with clean, correct work...except for this one fatal flaw. The disappointment on their faces tells me that they don't see anything wrong with this.
In as much as this happens so often and I am convinced that I stand alone with this correction, I am thinking that I might just lay off. You know, what the Hell, houses aren't burning down....so many are past their expiration date anyway....why should I keep pi$$ing these people off?
This is the new cabinet. As you can see, it is also a surface mount and it's quite a bit longer than the old cabinet.
This is where the old cabinet was mounted over an old recessed cabinet. The plan was to place the new cabinet over the recessed cabinet/hole.
This method is practiced, mostly unimpeded, on a large scale. I turn it down every time. And every time, I hear "You've got to be kidding. I've done it this way for years and you're the first inspector to say no". I don't think that they are lying about that.
The contractors that do this are not all hacks and bandits either. I have inspected many jobs with clean, correct work...except for this one fatal flaw. The disappointment on their faces tells me that they don't see anything wrong with this.
In as much as this happens so often and I am convinced that I stand alone with this correction, I am thinking that I might just lay off. You know, what the Hell, houses aren't burning down....so many are past their expiration date anyway....why should I keep pi$$ing these people off?