ivsenroute
Senior Member
- Location
- Florida
Customer had a hot tub installed last year. Hires a professional electrician to wire it for him. Permit paperwork gets lost at the municipality and it is never inspected. Hot tub in use for one year now.
Muni finds the open permit and comes out to inspect. Installation fails because the schmuck never installed a disco outside within site. Just used a GFCI breaker at the panel inside the house out of site. EC is now nowhere to be found.
I am hired to add a disco outside and do so.
This morning, 2 weeks later, I get a phone call from the homeowner telling me his hot tub is not heating and he is afraid it is going to freeze so he wants me there ASAP. I am now wondering what I did wrong that could cause the problem 2 weeks later.
I tell if the controls work and the pumps work then he needs a hot tub tech to come out, not me. Then he proceeds to say that it has not worked right since the inspector came out on Friday. I asked what the inspector did and he told me he pulled the disco out to make sure it worked then put it back in.
The pumps work, it has power to the controllers but there is no heat.
I asked him to turn off the breaker and go out to the disco and tell me if it looked like it was in all the way. Apparently not, he pulled and reconnected the disco and now it looks like both phases are making contact.
I guess the inspector was too weak to push it back in all the way.
OK, I vented. This was an hour drive for me so I was relieved.
Muni finds the open permit and comes out to inspect. Installation fails because the schmuck never installed a disco outside within site. Just used a GFCI breaker at the panel inside the house out of site. EC is now nowhere to be found.
I am hired to add a disco outside and do so.
This morning, 2 weeks later, I get a phone call from the homeowner telling me his hot tub is not heating and he is afraid it is going to freeze so he wants me there ASAP. I am now wondering what I did wrong that could cause the problem 2 weeks later.
I tell if the controls work and the pumps work then he needs a hot tub tech to come out, not me. Then he proceeds to say that it has not worked right since the inspector came out on Friday. I asked what the inspector did and he told me he pulled the disco out to make sure it worked then put it back in.
The pumps work, it has power to the controllers but there is no heat.
I asked him to turn off the breaker and go out to the disco and tell me if it looked like it was in all the way. Apparently not, he pulled and reconnected the disco and now it looks like both phases are making contact.
I guess the inspector was too weak to push it back in all the way.
OK, I vented. This was an hour drive for me so I was relieved.
