Flush Mounted Floor Receptacles and GFCI?

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Based strickly upon reading the code for a commercial building, floor mounted receptacles on a vinyl tile floor do not require GFCI? Is this correct?

Any recommendations? Is it a good idea to require floor mounted receptacles on a vinyl tile floor to be GFCI type?
 
Based strickly upon reading the code for a commercial building, floor mounted receptacles on a vinyl tile floor do not require GFCI? Is this correct?
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Depends, is the floor located in a commercial kitchen or a bathroom?

Take a look at 210.8(B) for the requirements for GFCI protection in "Other than dwelling units".

Chris
 
rcarroll said:
Just to be totally off the wall here, if you install 125 volt 15 or 20 amp floor receps in commercial kitchens or bathrooms, they would have to be GFI protected.
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You're right a floor receptacle in the bathroom would be off the wall--- it would be on the floor.:grin:
 
stickboy1375 said:
Yes, I would not install it in the middle of a hallway... ;)
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If you did put in the middle of the hallway, it could make for a very interesting discussion with the inspector.:D

Chris
 
raider1 said:
Please show me in 210.8(B) where GFCI protection is required in a wet or damp location.

Chris
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Chris it doesn't, but I can't think of many places that were damp or wet location and you wouldn't need GFCI protection
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Chris it doesn't, but I can't think of many places that were damp or wet location and you wouldn't need GFCI protection
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I agree, my point was that unless it is required in 210.8(B), just because it is a wet or damp location, you can't require GFCI protection.

I personally use GFCI protection in areas that I feel need it, but the NEC doesn't require it.

Chris
 
The location of this application is in a commercial building in an open speciman processing lab. Where there is a lot of equipment out on the floor to be plugged in with no walls around. So, this is not a hallway, bathroom or kitchen. "In the other than dwelling units" of the NEC I don't see where the code requires it. Although the floor does get mopped from time to time.

The floor outlets that I am speaking of are an existing condition from a building built in the mid 1990's (around 1994). However, we are renovating the area and leaving the existing outlets in place. I'm just wondering if the existing installation creates a problem with the code.

It seems to me that if the floor gets mopped it would be required but it seems that the code does not address the situation.
 
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