Electric appliances in a residential garage.

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I'm guessing but I thought that the 18" requirement was for an appliance with an open flame.
 
Art 511 states a garage used only for parking are unclassified. Is there an 18" rule in the building or some other Code that would apply ?
 
augie47 said:
Art 511 states a garage used only for parking are unclassified. Is there an 18" rule in the building or some other Code that would apply ?
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With a residential garage the NEC is silent. Could be another code as you've suggested.
 
Certain commercial repair garages have a hazardous location that is anything below 18" above the floor. A dwelling unit garage doesn't have this hazardous location.
 
Abdel Rahman Mohamed said:
Yes, but still better to maintain these 18'' rule for any emergency case( safety purposes).
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What percentage of garages at dwellings have open flammable liquids on a nearly daily basis? IMO is somewhat overkill in the commercial garages to have this requirement, but sometime more recently NEC finally made a distinction between major repair garage and minor repair garage and gave differences in classified areas related to both.

I'd say 90% or more residential garages around here have refrigerators, freezers, or other appliances that sit directly on the floor. We don't have a rash of fires started by those because there is flammable vapors near the floor being ignited by those appliances.
 
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