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I like that they took the time to paint the conduit. There is different colored conduit on the market, but probably not that color?
 
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Is there anybody else out there that would vote c-taps off the island.

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Question ... is the problem that they are using the wrong size? Doesnt look like it wraps far enough around the smaller wire. And i assume they are allowed by code, otherwise you would have (reluctantly) issued a citation.
 
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Not sure i agree. Look at the raised panels in the top row ... the one on the left touches the header, the one on the right has a gap at the top.
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That picture is just funny as hell I almost get dizzy just looking at it. Up here I have seen many of these issues due to frost heave. When I was a young guy I saw structural damage due to bentonite clay. Many of the builder's in my area used to bury trees and stumps on the lots which forever settle - so I have responded to lots of structural damage because of these bury pits.
 
e hilton said:
Question ... is the problem that they are using the wrong size? Doesnt look like it wraps far enough around the smaller wire. And i assume they are allowed by code, otherwise you would have (reluctantly) issued a citation.
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The c-tap is too small. There is a specific tool that’s required for the crimping of the c-tap. That tool will emboss a number where it engages the copper. The number corresponds to a particular die for the specific c-tap. That didn’t happen and almost never does. Beyond all of that, this is a bare copper grounding electrode conductor to ground rods.....in a planter .....that requires protection from physical damage.

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e hilton said:
Not sure i agree. Look at the raised panels in the top row ... the one on the left touches the header, the one on the right has a gap at the top.
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I put a ruler on the picture and they are too close to say otherwise. I saw the different reveal and wondered if it’s just the door.....everything looks like the day it was built but something is way off.
 
If it's a #6 AWG GEC and free from physical damage the GEC can be run along the building surface without protection if secured. If not it would need protection, preferably in conduit.


I don't know the GEC size but assume that the GEC is a #6 AWG:

Question: Would you classify this install free from physical damage?

ICE said:
Beyond all of that, this is a bare copper grounding electrode conductor to ground rods.....in a planter .....that requires protection from physical damage.

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Replacement furnace in a closet. It goes with the condenser above.

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The previous vent has been cut with tin snips. A section of single wall has been pushed inside and a flexible B-Vent is in the single wall.

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A California contractors license is no indication of competence. There are businesses that prepare people to take the test for a license. It’s the same for inspector certifications.
 
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I hear inspectors saying that they do not go on roofs for inspections. The contractor for this job must have figured I was one of them as I had to ask for a ladder.

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I'm no legal scholar but it seems to me that if a licensed contractor walked away from this he would bear a legal responsibility if it fell into the back yard. What the Hell, it's not attached at all.
 

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Inspector Gift said:
Give Tiger a break, Conarb. As you well know, the first guy up is never tied off.
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A few years ago, I believe it was in Marin County, an inspector was on a roof and a contractor happened to drive by and see him, he turned him into CalOSHA and it made all the papers. If it was me I wouldn't have done that, I would have taken a picture with my cell phone, the next time Tiger came by one of my jobs and wrote my up I'd whip out my cell phone, show him the picture, and say: "Now Tiger you don't really want to write me up do you?"
 
I brought you this picture earlier. A correction was written to, "Provide 30"wide by 36" deep working space in front of the A/C disconnect.


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I was there today for the corrections. The condenser has been rotated 90°. The guy said that is what I told them to do.

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I was dealing with a legitimate, licensed mechanical contractor. They have trucks and uniforms but not much else. I finally pointed out the service panel within reach of the condenser. I resisted doing that. I didn't want to do it....really I didn't. I was miffed that they can be so clueless yet take on these jobs. I gave in because they'll never get it if we don't teach them. That's a jacked up system.
 
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Tiger, I don't know, isn't there a requirement that a condenser must be a certain distance from a window? Looks like the hot air is going to blow right back through that window.
 
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