light in laundry room
- Thread starter jstrang
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
Look at 410.11 and tell me what you think. Sorry you are in the 2005 NEC --410.5
John120/240
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- Olathe, Kansas
It is not a clothes closet per se. But is there a rod installed under a shelf
over the washer-dryer? Depends on the inspector & how he feels that day
around here.
over the washer-dryer? Depends on the inspector & how he feels that day
around here.
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- Logan, Utah
Actually it shouldn't.
The 2008 NEC has a definition of a clothes closet.
IMHO a laundry room is not a clothes closet.
Just because there may be a shelf with a closet rod does not make the room a clothes closet.
Chris
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
I agree, it's primary function is a laundry room so it doesn't fit the definition of a clothes closet.
Jim W in Tampa
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- Tampa Florida
Without the rod i see no issues. With it your inviting it to store clothes. Not an easy call. Would say bit of poor planning.
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Seems like an easy call to me. Does not fit the definition of a clothes closet. Who doesn't temporarily hang clothes in their laundry room?
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
Does anyone see an issue with 410.11 or am I alone on that also. 
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Does anyone see an issue with 410.11 or am I alone on that also.
I do not, and I have never seen someone trying to enforce it.
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
So the shelf is right below the light and you wouldn't worry about someone storing boxes or whatever too close to the light?
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- Logan, Utah
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
So when would 410.11 apply?
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
You've got me. The lights in the garage are over a few cans of gasoline so do they need to be replaced?
That section is very vague.
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
That's 410.12 which is lights over highly combustibles. But the shelf being 6" below the light would be a problem for me. I would not install the light there as
I see it as a violation of 410.11--or I would have a guard on the fixture. I realize that we don't know what will be stored there and it is a bit vague but it seems like an accident waiting to happen. Maybe a good code proposal here.
Jim W in Tampa
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- Tampa Florida
regardless of legal, what good will it be to anyone if blocked
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