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Do you guys test dryer outlets? If so, what method to you use?
“The things that will destroy America are peace at any price, prosperity at any cost, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” Theodore Roosevelt Joe Funderburk, CMI Alpha & Omega Home Inspections, LLC Inspecting Upstate SC & Charlotte Metro, NC NACHI ID: NACHI05120170 www.aohomeinspection.com |
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tneumann is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
Turn dryer on..if it spins and heats...outlet works
Actually, I never thought of this....what if they move in and the outlet doesn't work? |
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Jay Moge is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
try turning on the dryer. i just use the "as the homeowner would do" method. if no dryer present, i use my multimeter and test both legs for 120vac. and state that power is present, unsure of dependiblilty.
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Jay Moge is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
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“The things that will destroy America are peace at any price, prosperity at any cost, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” Theodore Roosevelt Joe Funderburk, CMI Alpha & Omega Home Inspections, LLC Inspecting Upstate SC & Charlotte Metro, NC NACHI ID: NACHI05120170 www.aohomeinspection.com |
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tneumann is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
you would think that would be disclosed by the seller....pretty sure they would know eh?
And if not disclosed..you would think they would go after them....what do the SOPs say? |
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Jay Moge is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
as far as i know (and in my report) it states that a "represented" number of outlets, switches and windows and doors are tested. not EVERY SINGLE ONE. i'd guess that would cover my butt if the outlet wasn't tested, and tunded out to be dead.....i hope.
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tneumann is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
I choose the representative receptacles to be the ones my tester fits into...and not the ones that hurt really really bad when it hits you
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As Joe Ferry would say, the reasonable typical inspector only uses a regular outlet tester....
Many meter leads will not reach into these outlets reliably and could lead you to believe that no power exists. I might start stating in the report that 220V receptacles are not tested. B.A. King Home Inspections, LLC www.BAKingHomeInspections.com Serving Charlotte NC area and Rock Hill SC areas. CMI Certified Master Inspector and Independent License NC2449 and SC1597 704 301-3207 "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyvrgyi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937 |
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tneumann is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
220 is an owie too.....
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Greg Fretwell is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
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We test outlets if there is nothing plugged into them.
Since we have a lot of gas around here (!), the 220V outlet usually doesn't have anything plugged into it, so we test it. NACHI 2005 U.S. Member of the Year
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Ray, what method do you use to test 220v?
"I have not failed, I have just found a 1000's way's that didn't work" Thomas Edison www.newbeginningshomeinspection.com |
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I use the FLUKE testers. They're very easy to use in testing for continuity at ANY receptacle. Last edited by dvalley; 10/7/07 at 4:41 PM.. |
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I use the same things David does.
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