kwired
Electron manager
- Location
- NE Nebraska
You know you have a problem if an inspector shows up at your house and offers to do the dishes or the laundry:lol:
Flicking lights !!
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ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
:lol:I am picturing Frank:lol::lol:.
PetrosA
Senior Member
- Location
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania
I've only worked on one site where I know the building inspector was bribed - I came in after most of the work was done. The homeowner also owned a resort in St. Kitts. The inspector evidently like spending time in the Caribbean on a regular basis. Lots of strange things done on that job. To this day (8 years later) there are still a number of buildings with power but not metered. Evidently the electrical inspector and the POCO rep didn't get invited along. I think the new owner will be in for a surprise at some point when the POCO wakes up to almost a decade of lost revenue...
I had an inspector try to extort a foreman of mine when I first started. It was actually very funny looking back:
Inspector- yea everything looks good except the twisted ground on the service.
EC- I'm sorry, what's that mean?
Inspector- oh you don't know about that, it's a local thing.
EC- ummm ok show me
Inspector- (takes a pad of paper) See you've got the hot and the neutral (draws parallel lines)
=
And the ground is all twisted up (adds to drawing, Ends up with---
$
..... And the screaming started!!
Inspector- yea everything looks good except the twisted ground on the service.
EC- I'm sorry, what's that mean?
Inspector- oh you don't know about that, it's a local thing.
EC- ummm ok show me
Inspector- (takes a pad of paper) See you've got the hot and the neutral (draws parallel lines)
=
And the ground is all twisted up (adds to drawing, Ends up with---
$
..... And the screaming started!!
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