FREEBALL
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- york pa usa
A friend asked today, actually my boss, about his subpanel in his garage. It was installed in 1999. It is 100 amp subfeed fed with 3 wire which was allowed back then. There are no other metalalic connections between the buildings. It has a ground rod driven in the ground bonded to neutral. Now he is selling the home and the home inspector cited this as a hazard since the grounds and neutrals were not separated. Question is wouldn't this be grandfathered in since the installation was code at the time it was installed. But what floored me was that he stated to fix this problem would only cost 100 dollars. I explained to him that the inspector is wrong because to fix the problem a ground would need to be installed back to the panel, to separate the ground from the neutral, and that would most likely be more than 100 dollars. I explained that when you factor in pulling conductors out, if are in conduit or possibly not (possibly being able to use existing conductors) then repulling back in with a ground. This would be a large undertaking especially if the conductors are not in conduit. Any thoughts.