It seems like it's coming to that. The trade is being diminished to where electricians are just installers and can't make any field decisions themselvesWill need the framers to use listed framing members so we can drill listed holes in them?
The listed holes you drill will need to be made with listed drill and bits as well.
You have a few options. Since he's already been paid in full you might have to wait a while for him to return. You can call the inspection authority and explain to them what's going on they should contact the electrician directly and tell him he needs to correct his violation. You could just get another electrician to add a split bonding bushing and call for the re-inspection yourself.
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Is it your permit or the contractors permit?
The contractor is the permit applicant. I did not see the permit until the township called wanting their permit fee. That is when I learned a final inspection was needed and the contractor obviously doesn't do inspections. So I called an inspector recommended by the township.
Obviously you would like to get this resolved but the house isn't going to burn down without additional bonding on the offset nipple. Here in NJ you cannot demand the final payment until after the job passes inspection which is an incentive to ensure that the contractor finishes the job.
Mentioned in post #28. 352.44 would be unlikely to apply to the OP due to the short length. The section that might apply is 300.5(J)
cut the plastic bushing in half with dykes after spinning it off then add a split grounding bushing in its place. Install a bonding jumper from the new bonding bushing to the Neutral boding buss.
Where is the length of raceway mentioned in 352.44? It says expansion and contraction for temperature change in table 352.44
Right but we are only talking 4 feet. I don't think you will get an expansion coupling requirement in the OP's situation just from 352.44.
I can you show several photos of PVC pulling out of meter enclosures that are only 4' in length
Table 352.44 gives you, for a given temperature swing, a rate of expansion and contraction. For example, at 100F temperature swing the rate is 4.06" / 100' of conduit. That means that 4' of conduit would change 0.16" in length. So the length is absolutely part of 352.44..
Obviously due to earth movement, which is covered by 300.5(J), not by thermal expansion/contraction. Even at 100F temperature swing, the thermal length change is below the 1/4" threshold for expansion joints in 352.44. You'd need a 155F temperature swing for an expansion joint to be required in a 4' run of PVC.
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Yes I use PVC expansion couplings religiously when coming out of the ground. I am just saying that you didn't cite the right code section that may require them when emerging from below grade.
Wait in the bushes outside his house?
