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Kudos to New Hampshire for their Common Installation Deficiencies List 
 

 

Topic - Safety
Subject - NH Common Installation Deficiencies List

April 20, 2009
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Kudos to New Hampshire for their Common Installation Deficiencies List 

The Bureau of Electrical Safety and Licensing and the Electricians' Licensing Board in conjunction with the State Electrical Inspectors, municipal electrical and building inspectors and other representatives of the electrical industry in the State of New Hampshire have put together a list of common installation deficiencies and problems encountered by the Bureau’s office staff relative to the State's electricians licensing law and the Electrician’s Board administrative rules. The state has also incorporated these installation deficiencies as part of their CEU requirement.

Our customer Art Horton offered his comments and suggestions which we’d like to share with you:

I read the 14 pages this evening and was blown away that any state would take the time to obtain input from inspectors, teachers and folks in the field and list a number of common problems they see on a regular basis along with their solutions and put them into a well written and easy to understand document. I would highly recommend you consider (if NH allows it) incorporating the information into your curriculum for other states. As you are aware the average field person does not have the time (nor does the employer allow it because they must make a profit on the worker or they don't have a job) to become a highly up to date NEC guru...So anything you can do to make it easier and quicker to understand I feel will help the average worker immensely.

We agree and perhaps by spreading the word about what NH has done other states will follow suit.

Click here to view the Electrical Licensing Concerns and Commonly Found Installation Deficiencies in the State of New Hampshire 2008.

 

 

 

 

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  • Mike --

    This is a great find! Tx. for the link.

    I second the motion regarding Item #5.) [page 4], and Item #17.) on page 10. Not only is EMT forbidden, it's common to see BX type flex metal raceway for the motor whip. It has to be liquid tight type flex. Anything else begs for water in the motor junction box, especially if a leak occurs (not uncommon in a room full of pipes) or if a sprinkler head opens.

    Regards . . .

    Jim

    Jim S. Nasby
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  • Nice work for the commercial-industrial violations. The next step would be to include the myriad of residential wiring violations that are overlooked when home safety is involved. Would the resi inspectors have an equivalent list available?

    Benton Jacks
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  • Could not open PDF file

    Phil Bufis
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  • Thank goodness that Home Depot and Lowe's stock #10 stranded copper THWN wire and are willing to cut it. The issue of color coding was a big issue when doing a 30-amp circuit in EMT and the commercial building owner cannot afford to buy 3 reels of #10 stranded wire and then use only 1/8 or 1/4 of each reel of white and green. On industrail jobs this was not quite so big of an issue because usually there are a lot more in the way of 30-amp circuits.

    For a long time most supply houses would not cut #10 THWN and Lowe's and Home Depot would only stock SOLID #10 THWN copper wire.

    Back in the 1970s a different issue was that when using EMT for home runs in a dwelling I had to use #10 THWN for 20-amp circuits because of the 60 degree Celsius limitation of romex back then. Still an issue when installing a new service right nest to the old one.

    One way out of this ( and not very satisfactory ) was to substitue #8 stranded wire which most supply houses would cut.

    Michael R. Cole
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