peter d
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What else would anyone expect out of them?
To keep water out, which usually means a bit of duct seal or silicone on the top.
GEC question in Iwire's pic
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To keep water out, which usually means a bit of duct seal or silicone on the top.
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- Massachusetts
Considering they are a funnel pointed up the last thing I expect of them is to keep water out.
Of course on painted homes after a few paintings they are pretty well sealed.
stickboy1375
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Pierre, you want to share the code violation or just talk smack to marc?
peter d
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Considering they are a funnel pointed up the last thing I expect of them is to keep water out.
Of course on painted homes after a few paintings they are pretty well sealed.
Which is exactly why you need to silicone the snot out of them for them to be effective. In fact, it was bad duct seal around a sill plate that caused water infiltration into my panel, which I had to replace.
stickboy1375
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peter d
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Iwire is on top of that one, always drill the hole in the structure upwards.
Or, just say no to sill plates.
Pierre C Belarge
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If you had read my earlier posts, you would have seen the issues I posted about.
You don't need to defend Marc, he does a far better job of it himself.
Not only that, I was not talking smack to Marc, as I do not even know what smack is.
TOOL_5150
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LOL @ the last 7 messages! Anyway, If you drill the hole upwards, and use a sillplate, Doesnt that make a very sharp bend in the SE cable?
~Matt
~Matt
stickboy1375
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Just using a sill plate requires a VERY sharp bend.
LarryFine
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That's the kind of bend I make by over-bending the cable before fixing it in place.
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I think so. Even drilling straight in makes a sharp bend. Like it or not a hole drilled on a downward angle is the best for the SE cable.
TOOL_5150
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Yeah, I think drilling down, sealing the heck out of it with some 50 year silicone, then a silplate on that would be the best option.
~Matt
~Matt
stickboy1375
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I only use ductseal, never used silicone in my life either.
peter d
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Hack!
The main reason I don't like ductseal is it dries out too quickly. So when you work for me you will have to use silicone.
stars13bars2
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So you are saying that the five gang meter base is listed for having an additional (what looks to be 200 amp) base tapped from it. Does this thing come with feed thru lugs or just how do you make this addition legally? I have had applications in the past where this setup would have worked and saved time and money, but I didn't think I could get it passed the inspector. I ended up ordering meter sections with tenant breakers.
TOOL_5150
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I have personally never used SE cable outside... Here we use pipe and wire. We CAN use SE, but I have always just prefered pipe.
~Matt
~Matt
stickboy1375
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I do whats in the budget myself.
stickboy1375
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Hack!
The main reason I don't like ductseal is it dries out too quickly. So when you work for me you will have to use silicone.
I have seen dried out ductseal, just never any I've installed, so I dont loose any sleep over it, job security in my eyes.
peter d
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stickboy1375
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I'm not talking to you anymore. And you can't be my friend either.
Seriously, how many jobs have you seen your own duct-seal dried out or got a call back for?
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