Pullout/conduit needed for indoor water heater?

[centrab]

I have a water heater I installed 14 years ago, and its been working great. I just ran romex from the
water heater to the leads coming out of the wall. I never installed a box, nor did i run the wiring in
any kind of conduit. Now that Im selling the house I want to make sure it will pass inspection.
The house was built in 1961, its in Central Florida.

Somebody told me I would need a pull out instead of a junction box, as well as the wire/conduit that I would use for an
air conditioner or a swimming pool. Is this correct? The water heater is indoors so i wasn't sure
if I needed all that.

He said Id need the pullout if the water heater isn't visible from where the breaker panel is, and that
a regular box would fail inpsection during the sale of my house. I installed it, everything works fine, just
wanted a second opinion if this was the building code for the area.

Is this correct?
Thanks in advance

 

[Dennis Alwon]

It is hard to know what you actually have there. It may be compliant or it may not be. However

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