Detached Garage Code Issues after a Fire

[ggunn]

Be very careful with what you say, or you may end up involved in the litigation. For example, if you saw something that was obviously wrong, would you as the professional with specialized knowledge be obligated to bring it to the property owner's attention? Even if it wasn't in the scope of your work, if it was obviously wrong, why didn't you make the owner aware of the hazard? If you did bring something up to the owner and the work was declined, did you document it? If it wasn't documented, it didn't happen.

This. If you can be considered to be an expert in a field relevant to a law suit you should be very careful what you say to any of the litigants.

 

[kwired]

Anything I've ever heard the news report on, where I knew the operation, or the people involved, the news writers got lots wrong. And I don't mean just in matters of opinion, I mean like basic facts. Like what the company made, what kind of machine was involved, who got hurt and what their injuries were etc. Either news people are really dumb, or they put zero effort into their fact gathering

I can say about the same thing. Some of them just need to be the first to get a story out there and end up with misinformation.

We had an manhunt in the area by law enforcement a few years back that after several hours one of the local news organizations posted information online indicating the suspect had been apprehended at an old farmhouse, which later was found to not be true. Law enforcement were at that old house scene but never found their suspect there. Two local news organizations were in pretty big competition with each other at the time and I'm sure this partly was misreported simply because of the wanting to put the story out there before the other one does. One owner used to work for the other and either left with bad feelings or was fired, IDK. Then started their own news organization and were both always back and forth whenever something big was going on. Eventually the former employee bought out the other one. She still posts information out there with errors before getting all the facts. When my son used to work as dispatcher for county sheriff, she was always on the phone demanding information that he couldn't give her and tell her the boss would contact her when he could. She would plead how the press has right to information and she may have somewhat of a point, but at same time let them do their job and take care of important things first, like stuff that may be potentially be life saving for someone, telling the story can always wait until more appropriate time.

 

[WD40]

I just ran across another garage wired this way today, caught by a home inspection during a sale, its not that hard to pull a 4th wire if its PVC the whole way, I just checked its all in PVC underground to a flying splice in the basement, and short piece of SE cable to the panel. Later this week I'll grab a helper and pull out this feeder and replace the short chunk of SE cable with a chunk of PVC, re-pull it. I believe you only need a #10 green if its 60 amps or less. Hopefully they did not do anything crazy and use a plumbing 90, I have seen that.