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- Electrician
Stairwell has a circuit for lighting and another circuit for a receptacle. We've penetrated EMT into the stairwell to deliver power to these.
A utility room next to the stairwell has lighting and receptacles on the same circuits. So we've penetrated out of the stairwell into this room to feed these.
However, this utility room also has a water heater on another circuit. Originally we were planning on using this already installed conduit to bring these water heater conductors to the utility room.
Foreman is now saying that the inspector said that because there is nothing in the stairwell that makes use of the circuit that the water heater is on, we need to pipe around the stairwell to feed the water heater.
There would have been no splices at all if we were to use the already-installed stairwell conduit as a path for the water heater.
Is this a correct interpretation of the code? You can't have any wires whatsoever in the stairwell if they aren't feeding something inside of it? Can someone explain the logic of this to me?
A utility room next to the stairwell has lighting and receptacles on the same circuits. So we've penetrated out of the stairwell into this room to feed these.
However, this utility room also has a water heater on another circuit. Originally we were planning on using this already installed conduit to bring these water heater conductors to the utility room.
Foreman is now saying that the inspector said that because there is nothing in the stairwell that makes use of the circuit that the water heater is on, we need to pipe around the stairwell to feed the water heater.
There would have been no splices at all if we were to use the already-installed stairwell conduit as a path for the water heater.
Is this a correct interpretation of the code? You can't have any wires whatsoever in the stairwell if they aren't feeding something inside of it? Can someone explain the logic of this to me?
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