Re: HELP !!!! outlet placement?
Re: HELP !!!! outlet placement?
Originally posted by LMaloney: The other inspectors in my office are questioning my enforcement of 6' from any door.
I question it too. If you are talking about the living room side of the door, and if the walls next to the door are at least 2 feet wide, then both those walls must have at least one receptacle. Also, if there is no receptacle within 6 feet of the door (again, we are talking about the living room side of the door), then you have a violation of 210.52(A)(1), as Chris pointed out.
But if you are talking about the hallway side of that same door, the rules are different.
Originally posted by LMaloney: They believe that if you had a 40' hallway code only forces you to place one receptacle because the NEC has a separate section for hallway.
They are right. A hall over 10 feet long needs at least one receptacle, and it does not have to be within 6 feet of the door.
Originally posted by LMaloney: I say that a opening i.e. a 12 x 15 entrance to a great room technically splits two sections of hallway. Hard to explain.
Hard to understand what you are trying to describe. If there is an opening to a great room, then one side of that opening might be a hallway, but the other side is not a hallway (i.e., it is a room).
Let me see if this clarifies the situation. Consider a hallway that is 30 feet long. On either side (i.e., left and right), there are doors leading to various rooms. There is a doorway that you walkthrough, halfway down the hallway. When you look at putting receptacles in the hallway, you completely ignore the doors leading left and right out of the hallway. All you consider is the one doorway that you pass through as you walk through the hallway itself. It divides the space into two hallways. You need at least one receptacle in each hallway, and it doesn't have to be within six feet of any door.
