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Access to bedroom receptacles
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
PC,
"I have an apartment where the bedroom outlets are all covered with boxes and bags of clothes and where you can't get into the room."
You really need to clean your apartment.
I know what you mean. I once went to inspect a gas fired water heater that was in a closet; with clothes piled all around it.
2006 IRC, R109.3 Inspection requests. "It shall be the duty of the person requesting any inspections required by this code to provide access to and means for inspection of such work."
If your conducting an inspection and the outlets were part of the inspection; I would fail the inspection; "Outlets not accessible for inspection". If you move the boxes; there is always the chance that something in them is broken and now you have another problem.
Uncle Bob
PC,
"I have an apartment where the bedroom outlets are all covered with boxes and bags of clothes and where you can't get into the room."
You really need to clean your apartment.
I know what you mean. I once went to inspect a gas fired water heater that was in a closet; with clothes piled all around it.
2006 IRC, R109.3 Inspection requests. "It shall be the duty of the person requesting any inspections required by this code to provide access to and means for inspection of such work."
If your conducting an inspection and the outlets were part of the inspection; I would fail the inspection; "Outlets not accessible for inspection". If you move the boxes; there is always the chance that something in them is broken and now you have another problem.
Uncle Bob
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
Pc -
I use the International Property Maintenance Code for issues as you describe.
Sue
Pc -
I use the International Property Maintenance Code for issues as you describe.
Sue
pwood
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
i use the international code of silence. i don't say anything or sign anything, i just leave :mrgreen:
sue,
watch out for the incoming nor-wester! buy beer on the way home.
i use the international code of silence. i don't say anything or sign anything, i just leave :mrgreen:
sue,
watch out for the incoming nor-wester! buy beer on the way home.
Alias
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
You guys need to quit stealin' my snow. So far, every major storm has missed us. :x The one that buried Mt. Shasta.......1/2 inch maybe....last storm, an inch maybe......and it is all gone. Long dry summer a comin'......
:x
Sue
pwood -pwood said:
You guys need to quit stealin' my snow. So far, every major storm has missed us. :x The one that buried Mt. Shasta.......1/2 inch maybe....last storm, an inch maybe......and it is all gone. Long dry summer a comin'......
:xSue
mtlogcabin
SAWHORSE
Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
We have had 1/2 our normal snowfall
Which equates to wildland fires :cry:
We have had 1/2 our normal snowfall
Alias
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
We have had 1/2 our normal snowfall
Yeah, they're telling us that we have 'average snowfall' for the year. I can see the tops of the mountains and this is year four. Uh, sure........I'm wondering how well sagebrush and juniper burns....? :roll:
Sue, lost in the high desert
Which equates to wildland fires :cry:mtlogcabin said:
We have had 1/2 our normal snowfall
Yeah, they're telling us that we have 'average snowfall' for the year. I can see the tops of the mountains and this is year four. Uh, sure........I'm wondering how well sagebrush and juniper burns....? :roll:
Sue, lost in the high desert
Daddy-0-
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
Take some of our snow....please. We are waaay over average and very cold this year. Should be a green spring if it ever comes.
Take some of our snow....please. We are waaay over average and very cold this year. Should be a green spring if it ever comes.
Paelectrician
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
We have hit our season average in just Feb alone!!
We have hit our season average in just Feb alone!!
Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
We've had (2) 100 year snow storms in one month...
I'm done with snow..
If the receptacles are accesible by the tenant.. even if they have the junk that God allows them to have.. it's not a Code issue.. its a property maintenance issue...
Hey! I like my junk, too...
We've had (2) 100 year snow storms in one month...
I'm done with snow..
If the receptacles are accesible by the tenant.. even if they have the junk that God allows them to have.. it's not a Code issue.. its a property maintenance issue...
Hey! I like my junk, too...
fatboy
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Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
If it's part of new work you can, and should require the outlets be accessible. If it's existing...well, you really don't have a leg to stand on. Looking around my home office I have several outlets that are covered by desks, file cabinet, book shelves......etc. Code requires they be installed, not readily accessible.
Of course, as stated ealier, unless you can enforce the IPMC issues of unsanitary........
Average snow.........just friggen tired of the cold.....unusual winter for our area, we usually get a storm, then two days later it's 50-60 degrees, and it's gone. Not this year tho..........
If it's part of new work you can, and should require the outlets be accessible. If it's existing...well, you really don't have a leg to stand on. Looking around my home office I have several outlets that are covered by desks, file cabinet, book shelves......etc. Code requires they be installed, not readily accessible.
Of course, as stated ealier, unless you can enforce the IPMC issues of unsanitary........
Average snow.........just friggen tired of the cold.....unusual winter for our area, we usually get a storm, then two days later it's 50-60 degrees, and it's gone. Not this year tho..........
Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
"...I like my junk, too..."
George Carlin's monologue on "stuff" cleared it all up.
If it's somebody else's it's solid waste, but if it's yours it's just stuff.
I have been inside of occupied "dwellings" where the stuff was piled up to waist and shoulder height, with little paths through rooms. In Florence, Italy I passed a "bookstore" where the books were piled up to 6' and higher, with maybe a path in there, but the apparent "occupant" was sitting outside on the storefront coping engaged in deep conversation. I wasn't sure anybody could really get in there.
"...I like my junk, too..."
George Carlin's monologue on "stuff" cleared it all up.
If it's somebody else's it's solid waste, but if it's yours it's just stuff.
I have been inside of occupied "dwellings" where the stuff was piled up to waist and shoulder height, with little paths through rooms. In Florence, Italy I passed a "bookstore" where the books were piled up to 6' and higher, with maybe a path in there, but the apparent "occupant" was sitting outside on the storefront coping engaged in deep conversation. I wasn't sure anybody could really get in there.
Re: Access to bedroom receptacles
The only thing I could come up with was extension cords under the stuff? and that was week I know. Could'nt close it down for too much stuff! Thanks for the input!
Don't eat any yellow snow!
Blue is ok, it's called an icee!
The only thing I could come up with was extension cords under the stuff? and that was week I know. Could'nt close it down for too much stuff! Thanks for the input!
Don't eat any yellow snow!
Blue is ok, it's called an icee!