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Yeah being in buildings that were built to standards is such a drag.
The real PITA is that permitting/inspection opens you up to everything needing to be “updated”.
You pulled a permit for interior work. You might as well put up a billboard that says "I am a fool waiting to be screwed out of my money". The town was simply taking you up on the offer.The real PITA is that permitting/inspection opens you up to everything needing to be “updated”.
I pulled a building permit to remove a load bearing wall and replace it with a beam and a new pier. Because I had moved some of the wiring from the wall that didn’t exist any more to an old wall using new wire, all appropriately sized, stapled to studs, all connections in boxes, etc, I was required to pull an electrical permit. I didn’t add or subtract any switches, receptacles, or anything else, and had fixed stuff from original construction like them smashing a hole in the wall with a hammer, connecting a light with wire nuts, and hanging a mirror over it.
Inspector then tells me I need to have all the smoke detectors in the house wired on the same circuit, replace half the breakers in my panel with ARC fault, which there isn’t room for since I have a few tandem breakers, so I’ll have to put in a new panel. I still have an open permit and he hasn’t been back.
IMO, they should only be able to inspect what’s new or flag stuff that’s grossly negligent.
60 amp isn't enough to plasma and run lights. Your plasma and compressor will push the 60 amp limit.
Interesting, around here (rural NY) if you take one or more walls down to the studs that room has to be brought up to code (smoke detectors, tamperproof outlets on AFCI, etc), but not the rest of the house.The real PITA is that permitting/inspection opens you up to everything needing to be “updated”.
I pulled a building permit to remove a load bearing wall and replace it with a beam and a new pier. Because I had moved some of the wiring from the wall that didn’t exist any more to an old wall using new wire, all appropriately sized, stapled to studs, all connections in boxes, etc, I was required to pull an electrical permit. I didn’t add or subtract any switches, receptacles, or anything else, and had fixed stuff from original construction like them smashing a hole in the wall with a hammer, connecting a light with wire nuts, and hanging a mirror over it.
Inspector then tells me I need to have all the smoke detectors in the house wired on the same circuit, replace half the breakers in my panel with ARC fault, which there isn’t room for since I have a few tandem breakers, so I’ll have to put in a new panel. I still have an open permit and he hasn’t been back.
IMO, they should only be able to inspect what’s new or flag stuff that’s grossly negligent.
Oh no... you still need the 4 wires.
If you are gonna do it, you may as well over do it
Until it’s time to sell.
So what happens when me as a buyer asks to see the documentation for the new electrical panel and my home inspector catches it?
Even when the market is cool the buyer always signs something that makes the sale basically as-is.
Have you ever actually bought a home?
Future sale was the reason why. I would never pull a permit for a bathroom or kitchen remodel, but load bearing beams and additional piers without an inspection would be a red flag to many buyers.
That's what I thought as well. Installed a subpanel and another ground plate for it. Inspector came over to check it out and I was told to remove it and only have the one at the house. He then went on to say something about "transient voltages" yada yada...
Fuck that guy. We have ground stakes at every machine in the shop at work. Inspector approved. Have one at the panel in my home shop, one at the mill, one at the hot tub, one for the house panel. You can never have to many grounds. I have seen all sorts of electrical gremlins in shops solved with a ground rod or 4. Many machine tool manufactures request them.
We ran a 400A 480V service from one building to the other, that got grounds tied into the foundation, ground rods and all of it was cadwelded because it was under the slab.
I ran a 100a sub panel in my shop the same size as OPs is for around 20 years. Did a shit ton of fabrication in it building buggies and a bunch of other stuff. I was pushing it running a window ac unit in there and running a welder. You don’t need much amps to weld .125 or .188 wall stuff. I never pushed thing ms to trip the 100a breaker in my shop and the one in my house panel. But it always bothered me and I knew I needed to upgrade specially since I want to run an HVAC system in the shop. It’s still window ac and wood furnace for heat.
Dam you paid a shit ton of coin for all that.
Better shop for your electrical shit now, stuff around here is getting hard to find
