ceb58
Senior Member
- Location
- Raeford, NC
A friend of mine just completed a new residential job and the inspector failed him on the final because of the standard incandescent lamps he installed. The inspector told him there must be at least 75% of the lamps that are energy efficient. So on his own dime he replaced the par lamps with CFL's in all of the can lighting which amounted to a little over the 75% requested. I am about to start a new construction home in about 2 months and there will be a lot of can lighting through out the house and the HO's wife has a stigmatism that requires her to need a lot of light. She hates CFL's and the budget is not there for LED's. But this got me thinking...... yea I know, are we as contractors by CODE required to install lamps in the fixtures? Now I know for practical proposes there are fixtures that require the lamp to be installed before globes and such are put on but those also require you to remove the globes and such for lamp replacement. As a last ditch effort we could install the CFL's and after CO change them out but the cost of 50 CFLs just to use for CO inspection seems a waste.