ivsenroute
Senior Member
- Location
- Florida
I may get longwinded so have patience.
1) Get assigned an electrical inspection for a residential above ground pool. Permanent electric required due to depth of pool & gas heater.
2) Arrive to find a 1x6 pressure treated post with a switch and a GFCI receptacle.
3) I write up the installation for being less than 5' from the pool (was less than 3').
4) Not one bonding wire to the pool frame/post, nothing.
5) I write up the lack of bonding. No electrician around so I leave the paperwork with the homeowner.
6) Get called back for re-inspection the next week and find that the switch was not moved (still <3') and the receptacle was replaced with a GFCI device.
7) I write up the switch for being <5" from the pool. Electrician PO'd and calls me some names.
8) Bonding with #8 solid copper only goes to one vertial support post and nothing else. I ask to see manufacturer's install instructions or prove that there is continuity between all metal parts of the pool frame to the bond. Again electrician even more PO's and calls me more names.
9) Continuity verified so I approve the bonding.
10) I hand the electrician the paperwork and show him the code section specified for the switch being too close to the pool. He says he does not need to see it and he knows what he is doing. I said to him "Apparently not".
11) I get called back for inspection #3, no electrician to be found. He threw and old flatplate cover on the GFCI device and stripped out the bottom screw on the cover which left if hanging loosely.
12) I write it up for not being weatherproof and for it being incorrectly installed.
13) Homeowner shows me 3 outside receptacles that he also installed that I was not aware of since this work was not applied for on the permit. All three lack the "bubble covers".
14) I write that up too and hand the homeowner the paperwork letting them know the installation had once again failed.
15) Electrician calls me every name in the book and cannot believe that I kept failing his installation. He thought that I should have passed it and just gave him a phone call to let him know what to correct.
What part of his choice of a profession does he not understand? I suppose that I am to never document anything and remember everything that I inspected, right?
I kept my cool but should have reminded him of a few things:
* He needs to do the job the right way the first time.
* He needs to find another profession.
I suppose I am out of line on this one.
1) Get assigned an electrical inspection for a residential above ground pool. Permanent electric required due to depth of pool & gas heater.
2) Arrive to find a 1x6 pressure treated post with a switch and a GFCI receptacle.
3) I write up the installation for being less than 5' from the pool (was less than 3').
4) Not one bonding wire to the pool frame/post, nothing.
5) I write up the lack of bonding. No electrician around so I leave the paperwork with the homeowner.
6) Get called back for re-inspection the next week and find that the switch was not moved (still <3') and the receptacle was replaced with a GFCI device.
7) I write up the switch for being <5" from the pool. Electrician PO'd and calls me some names.
8) Bonding with #8 solid copper only goes to one vertial support post and nothing else. I ask to see manufacturer's install instructions or prove that there is continuity between all metal parts of the pool frame to the bond. Again electrician even more PO's and calls me more names.
9) Continuity verified so I approve the bonding.
10) I hand the electrician the paperwork and show him the code section specified for the switch being too close to the pool. He says he does not need to see it and he knows what he is doing. I said to him "Apparently not".
11) I get called back for inspection #3, no electrician to be found. He threw and old flatplate cover on the GFCI device and stripped out the bottom screw on the cover which left if hanging loosely.
12) I write it up for not being weatherproof and for it being incorrectly installed.
13) Homeowner shows me 3 outside receptacles that he also installed that I was not aware of since this work was not applied for on the permit. All three lack the "bubble covers".
14) I write that up too and hand the homeowner the paperwork letting them know the installation had once again failed.
15) Electrician calls me every name in the book and cannot believe that I kept failing his installation. He thought that I should have passed it and just gave him a phone call to let him know what to correct.
What part of his choice of a profession does he not understand? I suppose that I am to never document anything and remember everything that I inspected, right?
I kept my cool but should have reminded him of a few things:
* He needs to do the job the right way the first time.
* He needs to find another profession.
I suppose I am out of line on this one.
Actually more so. :smile:
