Jerseydaze said:
I have a customer who is moving the new buyers had a home inspection and the home inspector said that the main panel (SDQO) has tandem breakers and this is dangerous.The panel has 5 tandem breakers on mostly general use branch circuits.My Question is what is the right thing to recommend to the HO.Oh and by the way the Home Inspector missed two SP Breakers joined by a wire to form a two pole .
Pinup a "panel inspection report" of your own, on company letterhead, next to the panel, and send a copy to the home "inspector." Indicate the address and the panel and it's location on the report, include the phrase "Panel is code compliant and without defect."
On a side note, my friends brother does home inspections part time, and I've done work for him in the past. He does not have the first clue about any building codes or the NEC. He "learned" the inspection "business" (not trade) from a book and a "moneymaking program." A lally column could be missing from the basement and he wouldn't catch it. According to him, the value of a home inspection IS to give a buyer ammo, and the only real skill required is common sense coupled with the perception that it's from a disinterested 3rd party.
A full panel = overloaded.
A 100a service = a antiquitated service size (regardless of sq. ft, or use of gas appliances)
A couple of tandem breakers = overloaded even if 1/2 the panel is empty.
(But every breaker 1/2 size (GE) is OK.)
He thinks all 4" gutters and leaders are undersized.
He thinks all exterior walls should be covered with heating baseboard, corner to corner.
He "estimates" boiler efficiency.
1 1/4" water meters are common these days, used to be 5/8". Any home with a 5/8 (EVERY home that isn't brand new) has an undersized water supply.
All of his reports particulars are spit out of a word processer as pre-written, stored commentary, and most reports read exactly the same.
In short, I'd give a McDonald's fry cooks opinion more weight than his.
