fatboy
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Based on the cleanliness of the water closet and surroundings, I wonder if the health department had been there in a while. 
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MtnArch
Sawhorse
ICE
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Corrections that make no sense:
This correction was written during a re-roof sheathing inspection. The existing transite vents were disallowed.
This correction only applies to vertical walls.
As mtlogcabin pointed out in another thread, any framing that is less than 60° from horizontal is not a wall. Any wall less than 90° from horizontal is not vertical. My guess is that nearly all walls are not vertical.
This correction was written during a re-roof sheathing inspection. The existing transite vents were disallowed.
This correction only applies to vertical walls.
As mtlogcabin pointed out in another thread, any framing that is less than 60° from horizontal is not a wall. Any wall less than 90° from horizontal is not vertical. My guess is that nearly all walls are not vertical.
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ICE
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Pictures sent to me by an inspector. The cabinet has been mounted over a hole in the wall with conductors leaving through the back wall. There has been a dismal effort to fix that.
Another shake my head set of photos & ask what were they thinking? But that is the problem they were not, I have never had much use for EMT 90° fittings, and if they enter a cover as it looks it does, how does one access it? The EMT connector used as a substitute chase nipple, & the Myers type hub substituting for the proper bolted hub are sloppy choices, that fit in with the rest of the work. How is the damaged stucco going to be repaired?
ICE
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The inspection was for solar....but not this solar array. This array was previously approved along with an electric service panel upgrade. The PV wire is laying on the roof. There is an armored GEC running under the rafter tails.
They pointed out that the ground clamp was in bad shape so they replaced it.
Apparently water behind vinyl siding is not an issue.
They pointed out that the ground clamp was in bad shape so they replaced it.
Apparently water behind vinyl siding is not an issue.
steveray
SAWHORSE
Paul Sweet
Sawhorse
ICE
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Six feet of shear wall. I mentioned that there is a problem. The workman called the contractor. Contractor says that he has a letter from the engineer that blesses this.
Big bundle in a big hole.
One pipe clamp and one drywall screw.
Big bundle in a big hole.
One pipe clamp and one drywall screw.
ICE
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They might have learned about bundled cable today.
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ICE
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Half of the house has a new framed roof. The request was for roof sheathing. The contractor says that he uses the step ladder to access the roof.....mainly because ...well that's the ladder that he has..
ICE
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I said that there is no sediment trap. There was a previous inspection when the inspector wrote a correction to install a sediment trap. The animated owner protested that there is a sediment trap right behind the Unistrut. He's right and it's wrong.
I mentioned that the cloth straps are cutting into the duct he got a little more tense. When I commented that there's no attic ventilation to support combustion....the F work came out and he told me to leave.
I mentioned that the cloth straps are cutting into the duct he got a little more tense. When I commented that there's no attic ventilation to support combustion....the F work came out and he told me to leave.
ICE
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ICE
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That took as long to do as the rest of the building.
Beniah Naylor
SAWHORSE
ICE, I am curious... when you do inspections, do you call out violations as you see them, or do you make a list and hit the worker/contractor/owner with a big list all at once at the end of the inspection?
steveray
SAWHORSE
Depends...Could come out of stackers too...It only needs to hold the cable until the drywall goes on....And then it does not need to be supported at all...
Whoa. If code calls for electrical cable to be supported within 12” of an outlet … are you saying that only applies until the drywallmis installed?
Beniah Naylor
SAWHORSE
The only NEC section that specifically addresses this particular situation is 110.2. If they bent the fitting a little so that the NM cannot feasibly escape, it is both supported and secured. There is no requirement to use any particular method of support, or even a listed method of support. 2020 NEC 334.30.
NM is allowed to be fished in concealed spaces where you can't get in to support the cable without removing drywall per 334.30(B)(1).
mtlogcabin
SAWHORSE
I find it hard to believe contractors are still using these. However I see they still cannot install them properly. 120 ft long building and every one was installed like this.
steveray
SAWHORSE
See the last part of post #5084 from Beniah...
Saw that. But that applies after the drywall is up. Why can’t you run all the wiring unsupported, and tell the inspector it will be compliant when he can’t see it?
steveray
SAWHORSE
I am just saying that it is foolish to pick nits...If ICE was teaching them a lesson, Shirley I understand that too...
ICE
Oh Well
It's more like, "Picking fly shlt out of the pepper."
Look at the pictures. The electrical work was a cluster of corrections. As to the pipe clamps....they are everywhere and the few staples that I found were over-driven. I told them to remove the pipe clamps and I explained what 4.5' on center means. I had to school them about bundling, cable clamps and shear walls and why the foam is only supposed to be used at plate lines. So yes the pepper is cleaner but I still wouldn't use it.
