jeff43222
Senior Member
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
I went on an estimate today and encountered something I'd never seen before. This was in a 1920s house, which describes most of the houses I work in. Instead of the usual pancake box crammed with cloth-covered wiring, what was there instead was something that looked like a pancake box, but it had no sides. It had the usual KOs and holes for mounting, but it also had a screw hole and a notch like you would expect for a cover plate. There were several of these throughout the house. It sorta looked like what you would get if a pancake box and a flat round cover plate had kids.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
The HO wants me to install new lights and ceiling fans, but I don't see how I can do it legally with these weird plate/boxes. I've had inspectors in the past grandfather in pancake boxes that were in violation of the box fill rules by suggesting a light fixture with a spacious base, but I think mounting a new light fixture on the weird plate/box would be pushing it.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
The HO wants me to install new lights and ceiling fans, but I don't see how I can do it legally with these weird plate/boxes. I've had inspectors in the past grandfather in pancake boxes that were in violation of the box fill rules by suggesting a light fixture with a spacious base, but I think mounting a new light fixture on the weird plate/box would be pushing it.