combustibles in electrical room/equipment

[bravo69]

Hello,

any code requirements or restrictions for putting paperwork inside the door of a substation? Looking to put single line drawings in a plastic sleeve within the inside door. Also would like to put a large single line drawing on the wall in the electrical room. Thank you

 

[charlie b]

No NEC article would prohibit that. You could store a box of paper in the electrical room, so long as you don't interfere with the required working clearances.

 

[ggunn]

No NEC article would prohibit that. You could store a box of paper in the electrical room, so long as you don't interfere with the required working clearances.

Go look in the electrical room of a restaurant sometime. Some I have seen have had paper supplies, extra furniture, cleaning equipment, etc. stacked to the ceiling and jam up against the doors of the electrical panels.

 

[packersparky]

Go look in the electrical room of a restaurant sometime. Some I have seen have had paper supplies, extra furniture, cleaning equipment, etc. stacked to the ceiling and jam up against the doors of the electrical panels.

A now retired electrical inspector that I used to work with would walk into a building and ask the secretary "Where is your electrical room?". He would often get blank stares in reply. So he would then ask them "Where do you keep your floor mops?", and they would bring him right to the electrical room.

 

[Chamuit]

We laminate ours (even the larger ones) so we can walk around an even write on (with grease pencil or dry erase) them.

 

[bravo69]

A now retired electrical inspector that I used to work with would walk into a building and ask the secretary "Where is your electrical room?". He would often get blank stares in reply. So he would then ask them "Where do you keep your floor mops?", and they would bring him right to the electrical room.

ha that is a good one. Our looking safety department says it is a code violation to have combustibles in the electrical rooms. Cant seem to find the violation in any code books. We have substation breakers sitting on wooden pallets for years and not a problem. Now we cant even put a single line drawing in a wooden frame with plexiglass cover.

 

[ActionDave]

ha that is a good one. Our looking safety department says it is a code violation to have combustibles in the electrical rooms. Cant seem to find the violation in any code books. We have substation breakers sitting on wooden pallets for years and not a problem. Now we cant even put a single line drawing in a wooden frame with plexiglass cover.

I hate this absolutist, all or nothing, non-thinking kind of thinking, it gives safety polices a bad rap.