A Fat Lotta Good......
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gadfly56
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.... this disco is (AC is to right just off the edge of the deck).
Hard to tell, but is the disco set below the surface of the deck???
blkmagik21
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Haha
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LarryFine
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I've seen new decks with meters like that, too. :blink:
Half of it is below the top edge of the deck. No way to open it enough to remove the pull-out.
gadfly56
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What, you don't own a chain saw? :lol:
Sure I do. I own 3 of them. Out in the shed.
But it's not about me having a chainsaw. It's about the AC technician having one............. with him.
gadfly56
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True, that's going to suck for him. No doubt his boss will tell him not to be a crybaby and just git 'er done. Now the tech has to decide how good are the odds he goes home tonight if he follows through.
Tech can always turn the power off in the main panel. Of course, if someone turns it back on while he's elbow-deep in the compressor, OSHA might have a word about it...........
K8MHZ
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A sawzall will work just fine.
gadfly56
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I did a quick look for lockouts, and it looks like you can get them for Homeline. Emedco make a universal device. For $20 plus a lock I'd get one if I were a tech.
brantmacga
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Reminds me of a job I did several years ago....
It was a carpet store (metal building); showroom in the front, a couple of offices behind that, and warehouse space in the rear. When it was built we put the panel in the warehouse. Owner then decided to add another office in the back. I go to rough-in, and the carpenter has framed the new wall over my panel. Not around the panel, but literally a stud dead center of the panel cover.
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It was a carpet store (metal building); showroom in the front, a couple of offices behind that, and warehouse space in the rear. When it was built we put the panel in the warehouse. Owner then decided to add another office in the back. I go to rough-in, and the carpenter has framed the new wall over my panel. Not around the panel, but literally a stud dead center of the panel cover.
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Craigv
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Just this afternoon I visited a friend who is having an enormous roofed deck built by another contractor friend...about 28 x 38. It's on the front of a modular vacation home. It has a whole house genny, and the ATS is installed behind the skirting under the house and accessible only by crawling under the deck. Today's atrocity was a side deck they decided to add. That covers the water curb stop valve buried 3' down, and the water line which is insulated and has a heat tape...all of which can't be accessed at all. I asked about it, and was told, "that valve shouldn't fail".
Good plan.
zbang
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romex jockey
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yup.....all our 'helpy helpertons' get on my nerves too.....
~RJ~
~RJ~
electrofelon
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- Cherry Valley NY, Seattle, WA
As I slowly get older and grumpier, I also get closer to refusing to work on stuff like that :rant:
romex jockey
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- Vermont
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- electrician
My AHJ is really old & grumpy.....but laughs so hard he can barely fill out the 'red tags' on some of these......
~RJ~
Adamjamma
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excuse me, but that last group of pictures... I know I am a student now and was just a handyman, but, just making sure as I have been outside the USA since 2002... none of those are allowed, Right? Please dont tell me that you can now block panels like that?? I mean, back in 90s you could not even put panel in a closet, as someone might put boxes in front of it...
Craigv
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As a full service contractor, I will offer to correct the access violations before doing the electrical work. If the answer to that is the usual litany of excuses and "it's only needed once in a while" rationalizations, I politely decline the job.
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