2005 NEC UL listed nail plates

[tom baker]

The 2005 NEC allows the use of a thinner nail plate, it is a tougher steel and is listed.
Does anyone make this new nail plate? I guessing Caddy will make one, it will be yellow similar to the EC300-11 they came out with following the code change on use of suspended ceiling support wires.

 

[george t. everett]

Re: 2005 NEC UL listed nail plates

Do nail plates have to be listed?

 

[George Stolz]

Re: 2005 NEC UL listed nail plates

Read 300.4. Nailplates are essentially spec'd out as to thickness, etc, but I don't believe the normal ones are required to be listed. If I had either of my codebooks around me, I could sound more confident. I'd bet 20 cents that it's not worded toward listing.

The 2005 NEC allows the use of a thinner nail plate, it is a tougher steel and is listed.

I remember reading that and wondering what the gain was, for us? Why the interest?

Edit: Fixed code reference...

[ January 21, 2005, 07:05 AM: Message edited by: georgestolz ]

 

[rcarroll]

Re: 2005 NEC UL listed nail plates

Years ago when I was wiring homes, I had a couple of friends who hung & finished drywall. They told me they would yank the nail plates because the plates caused a bulge in the wall. I don't know if rockers still remove them. So maybe the thinner plates might be the answer. Yeah right

 

[George Stolz]

Re: 2005 NEC UL listed nail plates

See, I've heard of that happening too. My elder boss sent someone out to nailplate a house that had failed based on nailplates twice. He was sent with two boxes of nailplates and ordered to burn them up. The house passed, but later they found two boxes worth of nailplates on the ground.

But I kinda agree with, "Yeah right."