AFIC req??

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If you're remolding a one room apartment, where the sleeping, kitchen, and living area is all open to one another are you required to treat that entire unit as a large bedroom and have to install arc-fault breakers on all the circuits?
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Good question for the AHJ, but there is usually some natural division of the spaces, if only different flooring, or some reasonably interpeted imaginary line that would separate the kitchen from all else (2008), or the BR from all else (2005).
 
bill@usps06492 said:
If you're remolding a one room apartment, where the sleeping, kitchen, and living area is all open to one another are you required to treat that entire unit as a large bedroom and have to install arc-fault breakers on all the circuits?
Bill
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If it is one large area is it all bedroom or is it all kitchen? :smile: Are you going to wire the entire place with 12 AWG, 20 amp AFCI breaker and GFCI recptacles?

You and the inspector will have to work it out. :smile:
 
In CT we are still using the 2005 NEC. To keep it simple I'll use #12 on all the 120v circuits. The unit is roughly 900ft2. They want a dwshr & disposal in the kit, a microwave and electric range. The heat is to be all electric baseboard, and the bathroom is to be elec radiant heat put into the floor. This is a 4-unit building, with no 2nd floor. There is a basement and there is to be 2 washer/ dryer circuits, with lighting. The GC hasn't been able to gain access to the building yet so I don't know what the service is. I'm looking at prints on this right now, and to me it's all a bedroom. AFCI. But as others have posted it's up to the AHJ at this point.
Bill
 
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..... I'm looking at prints on this right now, and to me it's all a bedroom. AFCI. But as others have posted it's up to the AHJ at this point.
Bill
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In Mass it is those who are regulated that get to decide what the space is.. If on those prints an area is described as a kitchen then that is what it is ,.. if an area is described as a sleeping area/ bedroom then that is what that area is

The State Board of Building Regulations and Standards (BBRS), as the Agency promulgating the
Massachusetts State Building Code, is the “AUTHORITY HAVING JURISDICTION” (AHJ)
regarding the interpretation of regulations of the State Building Code and has determined that it is the
responsibility of the building owner or the agent of the building owner to identify any new or newly
created bedrooms or other space USES. If submitted plans and/or narratives that describe the work
intended identify such new additions or newly created spaces as other than bedrooms then 780 CMR
3603.16.13 does not apply (note that it is the “REGULATED COMMUNITY” and not the
“REGULATOR” who identifies, on plans and/or narratives submitted as part of the building permit
application to the Building Department, if a bedroom is being added or created).​
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Perhaps it is the same in CT.​
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.....one more thought ,..If the whole space is a bedroom ,..then how can it be a dwelling:-?
 
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