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- Location
- NY, NY
- Occupation
- Electrician, semi-retired
Our company has been working on buildings that were partially submerged by Sandy, replacing cable and other parts that were submerged.
In one neighborhood, people who didn't want to spend the money found an electrician (apparently there are a few of them) who said the submerged cable would be OK, and he signed them off with just replacing devices.
Now some of our customers are questioning whether they really needed to spend the money--I showed them the NEMA information, plus some other links including this website that convinced them they had done the right thing.
What stinks about the situation is that the AHJs are leaving it entirely to the discretion of the electrician whether the cable should be replaced. So some people are endangering their houses and neighbors through cheapness and/or ignorance. To my knowledge it's not stated anywhere in the code that cable should be replaced under these circumstances, isn't this an oversight ?
In one neighborhood, people who didn't want to spend the money found an electrician (apparently there are a few of them) who said the submerged cable would be OK, and he signed them off with just replacing devices.
Now some of our customers are questioning whether they really needed to spend the money--I showed them the NEMA information, plus some other links including this website that convinced them they had done the right thing.
What stinks about the situation is that the AHJs are leaving it entirely to the discretion of the electrician whether the cable should be replaced. So some people are endangering their houses and neighbors through cheapness and/or ignorance. To my knowledge it's not stated anywhere in the code that cable should be replaced under these circumstances, isn't this an oversight ?