K8MHZ
Senior Member
- Occupation
- Electrician
From the Federal Electrical Common Sense Code Book:
(This is where the paragraph thingy would go if I knew how to do it) 47.113(a)3:
No receptacle shall be mounted face up flush with any surface unless there is at least a not in use cover installed consisting of a material strong enough to resist the repeated year after year abuse of the HO's who may at some point in time may actually be renters and not owners and less attached emotionally to the structure, or be listed for use in mines, elevator shafts, stills and/or military prototype aircraft re-fueling stations and be permanently and indelibly labeled as such using laser etching or other approved method of conveying, with absolute certainty, that anyone literate, or has close relatives that are literate, even after the warranty has expired knows that they have been tested and proven safe for pretty much everyone they tested it on, (hopefully a couple of dozen or more) so long as the covers are completely and effectively closed and not held open in even the least measure by crumbs, rice, shredded cheese especially Parmesan, potting soil, coffee grounds or anything considered capable of voiding the warranty will result in the voiding of the warranty.
Any covers that have been held open by said obstructions must be removed along with the receptacles and the fittings they are mounted in and sent back to the manufacturer for a replacement. Replacements are free but there will be a $89.95 shipping fee (COD charge and tax not included)
*Editor's note: Keep the wire nuts. They are of decent quality and you will get a replacement set with most company's plans. The orange ones with the double ridged coils for the springs rock for smaller wire.
Even for the best and safest installations I really am hesitant to put floor boxes in for people with kids that may just someday crawl hands and knees across the floor and find the fork half way into the floor receptacle and suddenly have a fond recollection of some sort of positive reinforcement from sticking some long wood thing into the right hole and consider the current situation just a more strenuous test of their reflexes and permit their ego driven mantras to initiate a well meaning contact of said fork and said receptacle's conductive terminals?
I have only put them in twice, once in an auditorium under the seats that had a strictly enforced 'no metal dinnerware allowed' policy and at a residence that insisted they have them in the living room under the couch for the vacuum cleaners. The ones they got were great. All brass and and had watertight covers with rubber o-ring type seals and a real stout cover spring. For what I paid for 2 of them I could have bought a real nice Icom IC-725 100 watt shortwave transceiver.
Face up floor counter or working surface receptacles are just asking for trouble.
(This is where the paragraph thingy would go if I knew how to do it) 47.113(a)3:
No receptacle shall be mounted face up flush with any surface unless there is at least a not in use cover installed consisting of a material strong enough to resist the repeated year after year abuse of the HO's who may at some point in time may actually be renters and not owners and less attached emotionally to the structure, or be listed for use in mines, elevator shafts, stills and/or military prototype aircraft re-fueling stations and be permanently and indelibly labeled as such using laser etching or other approved method of conveying, with absolute certainty, that anyone literate, or has close relatives that are literate, even after the warranty has expired knows that they have been tested and proven safe for pretty much everyone they tested it on, (hopefully a couple of dozen or more) so long as the covers are completely and effectively closed and not held open in even the least measure by crumbs, rice, shredded cheese especially Parmesan, potting soil, coffee grounds or anything considered capable of voiding the warranty will result in the voiding of the warranty.
Any covers that have been held open by said obstructions must be removed along with the receptacles and the fittings they are mounted in and sent back to the manufacturer for a replacement. Replacements are free but there will be a $89.95 shipping fee (COD charge and tax not included)
*Editor's note: Keep the wire nuts. They are of decent quality and you will get a replacement set with most company's plans. The orange ones with the double ridged coils for the springs rock for smaller wire.
Even for the best and safest installations I really am hesitant to put floor boxes in for people with kids that may just someday crawl hands and knees across the floor and find the fork half way into the floor receptacle and suddenly have a fond recollection of some sort of positive reinforcement from sticking some long wood thing into the right hole and consider the current situation just a more strenuous test of their reflexes and permit their ego driven mantras to initiate a well meaning contact of said fork and said receptacle's conductive terminals?
I have only put them in twice, once in an auditorium under the seats that had a strictly enforced 'no metal dinnerware allowed' policy and at a residence that insisted they have them in the living room under the couch for the vacuum cleaners. The ones they got were great. All brass and and had watertight covers with rubber o-ring type seals and a real stout cover spring. For what I paid for 2 of them I could have bought a real nice Icom IC-725 100 watt shortwave transceiver.
Face up floor counter or working surface receptacles are just asking for trouble.