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An average day

Plus it has to be accessible, right?

Brent

ETA: Have you ever thought about saving a step and just bring the other inspector along that will pass this crap?

You could get to be buddies.
 
MASSDRIVER said:
Plus it has to be accessible, right?
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You're getting pretty good at this Brent. If there are splices then it's a j-box and yes it must be accessible. I wasn't planning on going there. But you do have a point. Would this be considered accessible? The cover can removed but I doubt much could be done beyond that. I figured that if I got all of the conductors within a raceway it would be a winner. But you know I could be a wiener.
 
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If there are splices then it's a j-box and yes it must be accessible. I wasn't planning on going there. But you do have a point. Would this be considered accessible? The cover can removed but I doubt much could be done beyond that.
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That's why debates are fun.

"You need to fix that."

"You're unreasonable. We can't get to it."

"It need's to be accessible. Are you sure you cant get to it? You have to be able to get to it. Maybe move it over. Can't cover it with a furnace."

"What if we were to just fix the conduit?"

" Hey, there ya go. What if you just fix the conduit?"

Brent.
 
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I would consider the thought, I have 8000 pages of code at my disposal, do you want me to got their? or can we make the installation reasonably safe?
 
I was there for a final inspection of the solar installation. There's no permit for a patio cover. I left a notice to obtain a permit. I was back in the office at 3:00 when the owner called. I told him about planning dept. approval, permit and a drawing. I didn't even get to the part about no footing when he said, "How about if I just remove it" I said okay by me and that's for free. Then he said, "Cool, I bought the material last Saturday so I'll return it to Home Depot this Saturday"

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That's the first time I have seen lifeguard chairs at a residence and these folks have two.

I should probably take a closer look at this water heater....but you know that there's no permit for the water heater. People get riled up when you start piling on.

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This stuff should come in smaller containers. The electrical contractor that did this will do it one time. Well not unless he does another service upgrade in my area. So he had to buy a can of the foam that will be wasted.

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It is surprising how often I encounter a cantilevered girder.

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Then they smothered that little chunk of post with hardware but it's not attached to the block of concrete.

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What really cracks me up is that pier blocks are acceptable and the block they use is usually split and held in the concrete by the tips of two 8d nails.

Brent.
 
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Not to mention that it already looks like it is split in half....
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I don't think the post is split. The line that looks like a spli is a surface crack.
 
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What really cracks me up is that pier blocks are acceptable and the block they use is usually split and held in the concrete by the tips of two 8d nails. Brent.
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We haven't allowed those for a long time.
 
Do ya have to attach the FJ to the beam in CA? Toe nailed with three nails or simpsonize it!

Just pretending to be an inspector, on weed patrol!

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This furnace has been replaced by a wall furnace. It has been left in the attic because that's the cheapest way to go. The vent has been removed because it is easy to remove and they will probably try to use it. What they didn't do was seal the old roof jack so the rain is getting in. There is a puddle below the hole. It's not a big puddle and we did get a lot of rain last night and this morning.

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Here's another contractor that's into recycling.

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This was inspected today because I left a notice on the door telling the HO that HVAC permits were about to expire due to no inspection on a year old permit. I wrote nine corrections. So a year later the contractor will get a call from the HO. It will be an all day affair too.

There's a bunch of this.

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Well thankfully, this usually only happens once per job.

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It occurred to me that some people may not know what I meant by recycling in the post above. Transite vent is not allowed to be used with contemporary furnaces. The installation instructions for most if not all will not allow it's reuse. If there is no mention of Transite in the installation instructions a phone call to the manufacturer is warranted and they will tell you not to reuse it. The reason is that it takes too long to heat up and create a draw of the flue gasses. In fact, it may never get hot enough to aid in the rise of flue gasses. It worked in the past because half the heat produced by the furnace went up the stack. The efficiency has improved to the point that not much heat is lost to the stack.

The next question is did the contractor reuse the Transite as a vent or is it being used as a sleeve for a metal vent? I don't know but I suspect that is not the case.
 
The first time out it looked like this. The old service enclosure has been left in the wall and the new enclosure is mounted over it.

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Holes were punched in the cover of the old enclosure and the back of the new enclosure. Chase nipples were installed and pigtails were brought from the old service enclosure into the new enclosure.

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I wrote the usual corrections. The contractor requested inspection for today. He called me this morning to get an idea of what time I would be there for a lath inspection. I was expecting a rough inspection and told him to remove the lath.

Here is the owner and the mess. The contractor did remove the lath.

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The panel is energized. The owner has no power in the house.
You can see the caulk where the lath was against the nipple.

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The owner called,the contractor while I was there. The contractor was upset because the original correction notice said that he can't mount the new service enclosure over the old enclosure and he has removed the old enclosure. He wants a code section regarding splices in air. Then he said that if I find such a code he wants a section regarding J-boxes being accessible.
 
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So, not shlt, today I had the roofing torn off an addition, about 8 square, and ALL the dimensional shingles were installed upside down, meaning tabs up. Addition was permitted 5 years ago, roof inspection row signed off.

I purposely took no pictures as I thought it beneficial to society as a whole if there was no evidence of the a55hatery, on any level.

Brent.
 
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So, not shlt, today I had the roofing torn off an addition, about 8 square, and ALL the dimensional shingles were installed upside down, meaning tabs up. Addition was permitted 5 years ago, roof inspection row signed off.I purposely took no pictures as I thought it beneficial to society as a whole if there was no evidence of the a55hatery, on any level.

Brent.
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I hope this was a homeowner DIY project and wasn't done by a contractor! We all really would have appreciated pictures of that one however.
 
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