Re: Hot Inspectors
Originally posted by allenwayne:
To top it off he blew up a dryer.I got a call from office that the inspector had been shocked and to go there to see what was up.There was an 8/4 so cord from the t pole and plugged into the dryer.OK a male cord cap shouldn`t be energized .as I was walking in he pulled up and walked in screaming and pulled the cord cap and dropped the hot cord cap on the top of the dryer and boom good thing the cord was connected to a 2 pole 50 and not the main lugs in the tpole.
I'm sorry, Allen, but I can't find any way to defend this. Sure, the inspector "should" have known better, but, like many laws, sometimes we have to protect some people from themselves.
I imagine a hot plug is just as illegal, and certainly as dangerous, during construction as it is afterward. For this part of the story, I would have to side with the shockee, not the shocker.
Here, in Va., we have a service inspection that allows the POCO to connect, which requires one circuit, like the laundry, with a temporarily-installed GFCI receptacle. The rough is separate, as is the final.
Just for the record, in the 7500+ sq.ft. house we just finished, with two 40-space main panels and two 12-space sub panels, we had exactly zero shorts or other faults, and every fixture and receptacle works.
Okay, to be fair, we did have to uncover approximately five drywall-buried boxes and repair a few Roto-zipped wires, one 10-3 that the homeowner damaged, a defective fluorescent ballast, and a bad-out-of-the-box 3-way switch, but that's it.
Understand, we're talking about 172 recessed lights, a half-dozen pendants and chandeliers, six bath fans, under-cabinet fluorescents, the usual kitchen appliances, a remote-fan range hood, a half-dozen sconces, and four flood assemblies.
Oh yeah, let's not forget ten 8' fluorescents in the 4-car garage, eight closet, laundry, and pantry 4' fluorescents, three heat-pumps, and a gaggle of phone, coax-cable, CAT-5e network, and distributed-audio cable runs.
Bragging? Well, yeah.
