Floor receptacle

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amazing electric

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hi, working in the dental office and they got floor boxes right by the dental chair and floor box consists of 1gang wetherproof box flush with the wood floor and standard duplex receptacles and old style flip up cover, they say that the patients keep kicking the plugins and breaking them, can't replace the boxes no access, whats the solution thank you
 
76nemo said:
Just my initial thought. I can't believe a recep is allowed under a swinging chair in a dental office!
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The problem is not with the swinging chair, The problem is with the person siting on the rolling chair working on your teeth. If the receptical is locateded in the proper place at the front of the chair which in under the foot rest, nobody would be kicking the recpticals.
 
It would not look very good but you could remove the duplex rec, install a blank cover plate w/ 1/2" ko, emt over to a safe location and install wp box and outlet there.
 
bradleyelectric said:
why are we using a weatherproof box?
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The dental office was built 15 years ago, just got called to fix it , and doc told me to fix it nice because the're planning to do nice flooring, so please help
 
amazing electric said:
they got floor boxes right by the dental chair and floor box consists of 1gang wetherproof box flush with the wood floor and standard duplex receptacles and old style flip up cover,
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Then they also have a violation.

314.27(C) Floor Boxes. Boxes listed specifically for this application shall be used for receptacles located in the floor.
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There is an exception for show windows if the AHJ agrees, but of course that does not apply here.

If you want to fix this right the boxes must be changed, and as Cavie points out they may just be in the wrong spots.

At the very least a bell box extension (yes they make them) installed on the existing bell box might stop the plugs and covers from getting broken.

I might try finding something like this....

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...and figure out a way to install it over the existing bell boxes.
 
amazing electric said:
The dental office was built 15 years ago, just got called to fix it , and doc told me to fix it nice because the're planning to do nice flooring, so please help
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They're replacing the flooring? Fantastic! Cut the floor and move the receptacle, replacing it with the right one. :cool:
 
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