1st. house wired.....

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Hi everyone. I have been reading through posts on here for some time now and have learned a lot about the pains of starting a new business and working for yourself. I have been a industrial plant electrician for 20 years now and I am trying to branch off on my own...some residential and light commercial. Anyway, I wired my first home and had it inspected today. It failed for one fan box not grounded and I had the stove hood fan ran off one of the two small appliance ckts. I knew this had to be changed but forgot to before the insp got there. Not to bad for my first house I guess. My question is do most of you just wire the hood fan into a the kitchen lighting ckt. or even a general lighting ckt.? I don't think a dedicated ckt is needed.....

Thanks for taking the time to read this......
 
MRI said:
. . . and I had the stove hood fan ran off one of the two small appliance ckts.
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Was it a gas stove? If so, this would have been acceptacle, per Exception 2 to 210.52(B)(2). Otherwise, it could be on a lighting circuit, provided the circuit had capacity for the load. I see no reason for it to be on a dedicated circuit.

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Yes, its a hard wired connection. I'll change it to a lighting circuit and call in another inspection for tomorrow. Thanks for the help.
 
jimport said:
If this was a cord and plug connected range hood it would require a dedicated circuit. If it was hardwired it could be on the general lighting circuit.
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Before I posted my earlier comment, I took a quick look through the code, and couldn't find that requirement, and had to go back to work (sigh :roll:) . Can you give me a reference article?
 
MRI said:
Hi everyone. I have been reading through posts on here for some time now and have learned a lot about the pains of starting a new business and working for yourself. I have been a industrial plant electrician for 20 years now and I am trying to branch off on my own...some residential and light commercial. Anyway, I wired my first home and had it inspected today. It failed for one fan box not grounded and I had the stove hood fan ran off one of the two small appliance ckts. I knew this had to be changed but forgot to before the insp got there. Not to bad for my first house I guess. My question is do most of you just wire the hood fan into a the kitchen lighting ckt. or even a general lighting ckt.? I don't think a dedicated ckt is needed.....

Thanks for taking the time to read this......
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It sounds like you may be considering leaving your Industrial maintenance job for your own business....Is that right.
 
charlie b said:

Before I posted my earlier comment, I took a quick look through the code, and couldn't find that requirement, and had to go back to work (sigh :roll:) . Can you give me a reference article?
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I believe he is refering to 422.16(B)(4)
 
charlie b said:

Was it a gas stove? If so, this would have been acceptacle, per Exception 2 to 210.52(B)(2).

I think because it is a gas cook top that this exception covers me....I will wire it to a gen. ltg. ckt. and not argue the small stuff with the AHJ on my first insp.
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mdshunk said:
That was a pretty sharp inspector who caught one fan box not grounded. Either that, or you ticked him off somehow. :grin:
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Around here, once the inspector "knows who you are" then he doesn't check much of anything.
 
peter d said:
Around here, once the inspector "knows who you are" then he doesn't check much of anything.
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I think that's pretty much true everywhere. Unless I'm doing something sufficiently weird, I really don't get checked out very well, and that's a shame. I really appreciate a good once-over. I'd actually welcome a righteous red tag every once in a while. It's part of learning.
 
Well I'm sure since the inspector hasn't seen my work before he was going to be looking a little closer until he knows me a little more, it happens in every aspect of the industry. As far as the hood fan, he really had no way of knowing it was going to be gas. Maybe I should have tagged the wire so he would have known???? No one was on the job when he walked through. The ceiling fan box was in a 14' tall ceiling in the family room....how he noticed it wasn't grounded......I don't know.
 
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