Tough Call, IMO
Tough Call, IMO
sparky_magoo said:
I have an argumetative apprentice. He wanted to feed the laundry Ckt. off of a bed rm. ckt. I said it was illegegal. I whipped out my code book. 210.52 (F), said it was legal. Am I reading the code wrong? I have always run a dedicated ckt. to the laundry.
The same apprentice said we could run the dishwasher and disposal off the SABC ckt. I couldn't find a violation in 210 or 422. He even said it was cool to power the hood off of the SABC.
Am I wrong, or do I not know how to use my code book? I am an old man. Is it possible I am cofussing code with common sense?
I would have a stop and walk through before inspection with fix it time.
Have a footprint of job, rough sketch and "X" every fault, tell him he can fix them, mark them done or show code otherwise (after other work is fixed). Any material or specical situations you address, I'll supply you fix, (or put into order of priority, questions (Don't let him)- none- then Go... two hours.
Tell boss what your doing, I'm having the kid fix his stuff, before inspection, don't say anything else.
As far as the kids excitement for knowing things, tell him we don't guess
we look it up. Its not just tap and run, its understanding, the bigger picture of cause and effect there of, for example load calc's in respects to adding to the kitchen SABC, some of those units (micro) can be pretty big.
Just a thought...
Its always more of pleasure to have someone do what there told, you can explain cause and effect instead of having to try to work through a job that you have to talk to death.