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seal top plates

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Licensed contractor. Service upgrade and re-wire a dwelling. The first inspection garnered 12 corrections. One of which was that the new service enclosure was surface mounted over a hole in the stucco wall. The previous service was recessed in the wall and now it is an empty box with the new service over it.

The hole in the sheathing is there for the service riser that is gone because the panel is now recessed in the wall where it should have been in the first place. I inspected that work two weeks ago and wrote a correction to install a structural strap across the over-bored wall top plates. A week later at another inspection they had installed unistrut to studs. So I drew a picture of a strap over top plates and they did this. The correction stated "Install ST62 strap across over-bored top plates with 10 #10 1.5" long on each side of the damage". "Seal top plate penetrations with approved fireblock material".

This is am MST48" and they sealed the nails but not the top plate penetrations.


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The drawing that I made for them should have have a note that says "not to scale". 32 nails on each side of the conduit is probably enough.
 
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