The ‘Ol “12 Inch Spacing” Rule Again

Seven-Delta-FortyOne

Seven-Delta-FortyOne

Goin’ Down In Flames........
Location
Humboldt
Occupation
EC and GC
🙄

Did a residential generator the other day. 70’ trench, 1 1/4” poly gas line and CableMaster TC-ER GenCable in the trench.

Inspectigator came for rough and said “yeah it should be separated, it’s just standard”, and then signs the card.

When he comes out for final he mentions it again, says you’ll have to separate them in the future.

I asked him which Code is that? PG&E has rules for their stuff in the Green Book, but this is private, and you don’t enforce the green book anyway. It’s not an NEC requirement, and it’s not in the Plumbing Code, I’ve read the entire thing.

Maybe it’s in NFPA 54, Fuel Gas Code, but my county hasn’t officially adopted that Code. And he didn’t even know, said he was going to look it up and “maybe it’s a County ordinance”. Their are no local amendments listed on my counties website under the list of adopted Codes.

I wish people would just stop with this stuff. Once it gets into people’s heads, it’s there forever. 🙄😡
 
Looking through the PG&E Green Book… 12” separation for joint trenches, but you’re correct that is for service. You’re lines are not part of the POCO installation. POCO rules shouldn’t apply. I don’t see anything in the NEC, but maybe someone here knows otherwise. Mike Holt always warns us about “yah I always heard it was…”

The Inspector has to tell you what code they supposedly enforcing.
 
JimsGT said:
Looking through the PG&E Green Book… 12” separation for joint trenches, but you’re correct that is for service. You’re lines are not part of the POCO installation. POCO rules shouldn’t apply. I don’t see anything in the NEC, but maybe someone here knows otherwise. Mike Holt always warns us about “yah I always heard it was…”

The Inspector has to tell you what code they supposedly enforcing.
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Oh he will on the next. 👍😂
 
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