When The Electrician is Not at The Inspection

[jar546]

although I wouldn’t fail this inspection for just this. It is our policy that when you call for a rough inspection, a rough wiring inspection, that all of your grounds and neutrals and pigtails are in place so the only thing left for you to do is attach your devices, not start on twisting and adding wires. So the photo below shows something that if the electrician was present, I would have him take care of real quickly, but in this case, the electrician was not present, and there were other issues therefore, the inspection failed for not being ready. Don’t forget that the next time we are out there as electrical inspectors, it will be when all of the devices have been installed so we will never be able to knowif the proper grounds and neutrals were put together. This is also important because there are times when they bring two different circuits into a switch box and they will tie all of the neutrals together, even though they are from separate circuits, which is a violation.

 

[Paul Sweet]

Should they have just left the sconce dangling? If the electrician did install pigtails he would still have to connect the fixture wires to the pigtails, unless the fixture had screw terminals.

 

[jar546]

Should they have just left the sconce dangling?

That is their decision; however, the same situation can apply to receptacles and switches. The drywaller would not be happy. In this case, they just fished in a new sconce.

 

[bill1952]

Different case but if it had been conduit, would you even inspect between seeing conduit & boxes and finished & trimmed work? Or if Romex in new, Romex just stubbed into boxes and then a final?

 

[jar546]

Different case but if it had been conduit, would you even inspect between seeing conduit & boxes and finished & trimmed work? Or if Romex in new, Romex just stubbed into boxes and then a final?

A rough is a rough regardless of the type wiring so we expect to see the boxes grounded and grounds, neutrals and pig tails already made up.

 

[Mr. Inspector]

I would not have a problem with this. But if there was a lot of bad work at the job and failed inspections, I may have them open one or two up to check at the final.