Location of bathroom switches

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Well, I just spoke with the inspector in person today about being gigged on switch location. He said 680.... I said (with code book in hand) 680 is for hot tubs, spas etc. etc. Showed him an illustration from a Mike Holt workbook showing that "adjacent to" is not a violation. He said "then try 90.4". Hmmmmm ......game, set, match. I love my job!
 
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Well, I just spoke with the inspector in person today about being gigged on switch location. He said 680.... I said (with code book in hand) 680 is for hot tubs, spas etc. etc. Showed him an illustration from a Mike Holt workbook showing that "adjacent to" is not a violation. He said "then try 90.4". Hmmmmm ......game, set, match. I love my job!
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Then he's making up rules as he goes along. Start moving up the ladder.
 
Guess I'll take my medicine....I do agree with you guys, but you know what they say, don't argue with a fool....folks may not be able to tell the difference.
 
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Guess I'll take my medicine....I do agree with you guys, but you know what they say, don't argue with a fool....folks may not be able to tell the difference.
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You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. You are part of the problem. :rolleyes:
 
Ouch! That stung. So by not going over the inspector's head, which may still not solve the problem, but would most likely result in said inspector taking a microscope to my future work, I am the problem? Sorry, I don't see it as that cut and dried.
 
Let them take a microscope to your work. Every job we do should stand up well to close scrutiny. Sometimes inspectors get confused just like I do. This however sounds like you are dealing with a meglamaniacal moron. Don't let him bully you!
 
I can respect your decision regardless of my personal opinion...

I can respect your decision regardless of my personal opinion...

While many of us have offered advice, both publically and privately, to the OP and have strong individual opinions about how THIS situation should be handled by US ; I think it is important to remember ultimately whose decision this really is, and we may not have the full picture of what the OP is dealing with… (When it is your decision you will be responsible for said decision…) I can respect your decision, regardless of my personal opinion... (even if it is not the right decision for me...)


...many of us have been in similar situations and have effected remediation to obtain "compliance" in an unfair situation, because we felt it was genuinely the right thing for us to do with this situation, and hopefully we still learn from those decisions as well. (When you are not the one dealing with this situation first hand, you don't really know what the ultimate best decision is for this OP...)


In all fairness to the OP, many of us have been in situations (some of them dealing with such sandbox bullies, requiring many different outcomes from us…) where it is necessary that we, as individuals choose between the lesser of evils for an outcome which is inevitably best for us… as an individual. (...please pardon my repetitive rambling...)

…What you feel is the right call, may not be the right call for the OP in his particular situation…

When you make the right call for you, you have nothing else to explain to anyone...

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I would , regardless of my actions to satisfy or not, his rule,.. file a complaint to whomever signs his check with the relevant supporting material.
 
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…What you feel is the right call, may not be the right call for the OP in his particular situation…
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True enough. But...if you put it out here on a public message board you better be prepared for answers you may or may not like.

I say grow a pair and do the right thing. That is what I would do. Maybe you will be under a microscope from now on, maybe not. I'd rather make compliant installations that pass inspection and be under a microscope then make compliant installations that fail because of a pinhead inspector. What happens the next time he comes up with some hogwash reason for not passing a job? Who's paying for these unnecessary changes? In the situation laid out the op already did more than was required by code and that still wasn't good enough. :rolleyes:


This is pretty cut and dried in my view.
 
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I have no interest in making someone comfortable with getting bullied by a yahoo inspector.

I'd rather make him uncomfortable enough to stand up to the guy.
 
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