Plumbing or Electricial?

[Marc D. Shunk]

Originally Posted by ccurrins

Especially in a damp location. Or easily accessible area. This has both.

For crying out loud, under a cabinet is not a damp location or the building code would have you build your cabinets out of pressure treated. It might be damp under some sinks, but that just means that they're too oblivious or too lazy to have the leak fixed.

[Mike Hazelwood]

Oh oh oh...I know....it is plecrtricaling

Man that was really hard to spell.

[Christopher Currins]

Originally Posted by Marc D. Shunk

For crying out loud, under a cabinet is not a damp location or the building code would have you build your cabinets out of pressure treated. It might be damp under some sinks, but that just means that they're too oblivious or too lazy to have the leak fixed.

That is what i thought until a code inspector told me that once with a garbage disposal i had wired to a box in the wall. he said it had to be in conduit or an approved plug-in and the rec. had to be in an adjacent cabinet. Go figure

[Ted Allen]

Originally Posted by Marc D. Shunk

It's allowed exposed almost anywhere in a dwelling in my neck of the woods. The people that inspect here take a pretty laissez-faire approach to determining what is and isn't exposed to physical damage. You may know that the NEC gives no guidance on the matter, except with regard to romex emerging from a floor, in which case it must be protected for 6" AFF. I try to take a more reasonable approach and protect exposed romex in cabinets, for instance, by some means. Other exposed runs, such as those isolated by height, I make no such effort. I know that many areas have their own rules on this matter, and it varies pretty widely. This is one of those things where you just have to use your head. Just because you can see it, doesn't automatically mean that it's exposed to physical damage. It's just simply exposed. The picture in this thread I would personally consider exposed to physical damage because of what I've seen jammed in kitchen cupboards, but that's just my opinion. Substitute your own if it pleases you more. After all, you're a home inspector composing a report that contains, in part, your best opinions on what has been observed.

Well, that being said I would jack it up as improper install. As far as I am concernd any exposed Romex where folks have access needs to be protected. Period!

[relliott]

Bx is ok.Often it is run behind drawers.

[Dale Duffy]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Well which is it?

I wouldn't have any idea BK, this one is definitely CMI or CBI related reporting material.......

Electricial?.............whats that?......Electrical with a beer?...............

[Kenton H. Shepard, CMI]

I think the Northern hemisphere that wire is supposed to twist in the opposite direction.