I had a rough in inspection done and the inspector had a few things he said needed to be done that I wasn't aware of. This is a single family dwelling.
1. He wanted all boxes with grounds made up in them. I guess I can see where that's thorough but my other inspectors don't require this for a rough in. It's no big deal. I just never had an inspector tell me I had to have them made up for the rough in. Anyone else run into this?
2. The dining room has one wall with a bedroom on the backside of it. There's one dining room receptacle and I hit that as I was passing with the bedroom circuit. I was told that I couldn't do that and it has to be on one of the kitchen small app circuits. I've have put dining room receptacles on the small app circuit before but have never been told it HAD to be on one of those circuits or that it couldn't be on a bedroom circuit or any other general purpose circuit. I don't know what the code number is offhand that talks about this but does it state that it HAS to be on one of the kitchen circuits or that it CAN be on one of them?
3. The last one is about number of receptacles on a 20 amp residential branch circuit. I have two bedrooms on a 20 amp BC and I think there are around 14 receptacles on it. No lighting. Just receptacles. I was told that I could only have 8 on a circuit. Is there anything in the code that determines the maximum number of receptacles on a branch circuit in a dwelling? I haven't found anything specifically related to that. Now, I COULD remove some of the receptacles because they are probably only 6 to 8 feet apart and then I would be down to 8 or less but it would be much less convenient. Realistically, you could put a receptacle on ever stud along the walls in an area and you would have the same load as you would with one on each wall. It doesn't matter how many receptacles you have because they aren't going to use them all. I was thinking you could put as many as you wanted on a circuit because they're still going to plug in the same things....... Thoughts on this? Code references?
Thank you.
1. He wanted all boxes with grounds made up in them. I guess I can see where that's thorough but my other inspectors don't require this for a rough in. It's no big deal. I just never had an inspector tell me I had to have them made up for the rough in. Anyone else run into this?
2. The dining room has one wall with a bedroom on the backside of it. There's one dining room receptacle and I hit that as I was passing with the bedroom circuit. I was told that I couldn't do that and it has to be on one of the kitchen small app circuits. I've have put dining room receptacles on the small app circuit before but have never been told it HAD to be on one of those circuits or that it couldn't be on a bedroom circuit or any other general purpose circuit. I don't know what the code number is offhand that talks about this but does it state that it HAS to be on one of the kitchen circuits or that it CAN be on one of them?
3. The last one is about number of receptacles on a 20 amp residential branch circuit. I have two bedrooms on a 20 amp BC and I think there are around 14 receptacles on it. No lighting. Just receptacles. I was told that I could only have 8 on a circuit. Is there anything in the code that determines the maximum number of receptacles on a branch circuit in a dwelling? I haven't found anything specifically related to that. Now, I COULD remove some of the receptacles because they are probably only 6 to 8 feet apart and then I would be down to 8 or less but it would be much less convenient. Realistically, you could put a receptacle on ever stud along the walls in an area and you would have the same load as you would with one on each wall. It doesn't matter how many receptacles you have because they aren't going to use them all. I was thinking you could put as many as you wanted on a circuit because they're still going to plug in the same things....... Thoughts on this? Code references?
Thank you.
