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Craigv said:
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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In most jurisdictions the AHJ's attitude is "You touched it, you own it." When I ran fire alarm work we would put in a standard exclusion for any pre-existing code violations or panel/field device malfunctions for every quote.
 
Adamjamma said:
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...
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Romex Jockey’s pics all show NEC violations.
 
gadfly56 said:
In most jurisdictions the AHJ's attitude is "You touched it, you own it." When I ran fire alarm work we would put in a standard exclusion for any pre-existing code violations or panel/field device malfunctions for every quote.
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And that's the reason I will often give for declining such work. Insurance liability is another.
 
Craigv said:
And that's the reason I will often give for declining such work. Insurance liability is another.
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Yep, "I'm sorry sir, our insurance carrier won't cover us for any losses incurred as a result of not correcting any non-compliant condition that we actually work on in place."
 
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