Odd find

[Barry Adair]

or maybe not.

This switch is located in an upstairs bedroom it controls
2 receptacles in that room, 2 walls
3 in the next bedroom, 3 walls
1 in the hallway between these rooms
and 1 exterior double flood light fixture, also mounted under the soffit between the 2 bedrooms

The exterior light is not on a photocell so it is on whenever the receptacle are in use and obviously having "control" will only cause another problem down the road for the parents.

Client asked if this is a CODE ISSUE and I can't find anything.

Watch out for your bumper!

[escanlan]

Originally Posted by badair

or maybe not.

This switch is located in an upstairs bedroom it controls
2 receptacles in that room, 2 walls
3 in the next bedroom, 3 walls
1 in the hallway between these rooms
and 1 exterior double flood light fixture, also mounted under the soffit between the 2 bedrooms

The exterior light is not on a photocell so it is on whenever the receptacle are in use and obviously having "control" will only cause another problem down the road for the parents.

Client asked if this is a CODE ISSUE and I can't find anything.

Watch out for your bumper!

Barry,

Definitely an interesting and strange find!!

I scoured the IRC and the NEC and could find no code references for this situation. Obviously it is not only a useless arrangement but also a safety issue as well. There are no code references to positive control, in the same room, of switch controlled receptacles. However it could be a significant safety hazard.

This is a very good question to post, and suggest a change for, on the ICC WEB site BB ( http://www.iccsafe.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi )!!

[Greg Fretwell]

This may violate the spirit of 210.52 but there is no language I know of that says the required receptacles in a given wall space can't be switch controlled or that switch needs to be in the room.

[Michael W. Gault]

Too much involvement during the electrical rough in by a guy who 'knows' electrical....

[Barry Adair]

Originally Posted by mgault

Too much involvement during the electrical rough in by a guy who 'knows' electrical....

Mike,
Too cryptic a reply please e-x-p-l-a-i-n to an old county boy.

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Barry I had to chuckle when I saw your post.
I said is the switch to low or is the receptacle to high.

In reading your breakdown, it triggered an old memory when I was a kid.

The switch was obviously in the Master Bedroom and the originator of that dwelling had it set up that way so when the Boss of the family household, usually the Mother, said lights out kids time for bed.
She meant it.
No more reading in bed after bedtime. ha. ha.

Handi-cap accessible driveway, Barry? I think you need risers on your front suspension. ha. ha.

Marcel

[rromoser]

Perhaps the switch in question has been replaced and the wire connections inadvertantly swapped around. I've run into this numerous times in 30yrs. of being a sparky. Lots of switches have a hot in and a hot out romex and a switching romex. The hot is tapped for the switch to typically control the light in its room. If the hot out romex and the switching romex connections get crossed everything downstream of that switch in the circuit is now controlled by that switch.

[Barry Adair]

Manny,

I took your advice and posted on ICC
http://www.iccsafe.org/cgi-bin/ultim...=001338#000005

You may have to login for the link to work.

So far no violation noted except what we all already knew either the sparky was an a bulb short or this was done by "Handy Dan/Donna the Homeowner" or one of their friends or relatives, like good ol' Uncle 3Fingers

[Marc Benz]

that type of set up i did see that maybe two or three time so far but that switch is used for kinda like master switch for bedroom lumiaires and repectales when they have to deal with some kids IMO it can get really confuseing with this type of set up if you are not famuiar with it

Merci , Marc

[David P. Valley]

Barry,

That switch was installed for the midgets that lived there.

And that driveway isn't that bad, compared to this one...

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[Larry D. Kage]

Dave, I think we were at the same house...June of 2006, I think.

[Marc Benz]

Originally Posted by dvalley

Barry,

That switch was installed for the midgets that lived there.

And that driveway isn't that bad, compared to this one...

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OH mon dieu !!! that is pretty steep driveway

It nearly blew my mind away with this photo how the heck they can pass this one ??

I dont know if i can ask you a question there is a photo area where ya can show some major goof in this forum ??

If you have it i can send some photo i did work on trailer park some of the stuff ya just can't belive it.

Merci, Marc

[Greg Fretwell]

Must not snow there

[Rollie Meyers]

Were those homes by any chance in British Columbia?

[Barry Adair]

This is what I add to reports for general information for driveways when installation is questionable.

http://www.iowasudas.org/documents/5I-4-06.pdf

Someone really wants to own a home badly to buy the ones in those in the photos.

I'll be looking in another neighborhood and would have to fire an agent trying to get me into one of those homes.