OK, I will agree to disagree.
I simply asked a question and did not imply a thing. We have lots of contractors in PA that have to get a background check with our new contractor registration law and many who cannot get a State registration because of their past history. I was only curious about NC since the two of you are so heavily involved in writing code in NC.
How was I suppose to know the guy had skeletons in his closet. He must have assumed I knew something.
I apologize. Sorry my friend.
In the state of North Carolina a traffic charge even DWI is not grounds to revoke or refuse a person an electrical contractor’s license. A felony will most certainly cause a person to lose their right to contract electrical in this state.
Most people here on this forum also know that any individual can do a criminal background check on any other person as long as they know their name. I have posted more than enough information in this thread for that to happen. For this question to enter this type of discussion it could have had but one objective.
Your apology is accepted.
Now if we can lay all of this to the side and let it go I would love to continue on with this discussion and see if maybe you can teach me something.
Soars on Grounding in Chapter Eight states that all metal installed in a building must be bonded including such items as hot and cold water pipes, sewer piping, gas piping, gutters and metal air ducts.
If we are going to use Soars on Grounding as a reference to back out statements shouldn’t we be just as concerned with down spouts and metal air ducts as we are the hot and cold water bond?
If one is going to use the statements found in Soars shouldn’t the inspector also require that the down spouts and metal air ducts be bonded along with the hot and cold water pipes?
If Soars thinks that the down spouts and metal air ducts and metal sewer pipes needs bonding wouldn’t someone quoting part of their comments also quote the entire comment and think it just as important as any one part?
I am not disputing what is printed in Soars on Grounding or what is printed in the commentary of the NEC Handbook. What I am asking for is what code section of the NEC or the code amendments of your jurisdiction you are using to require the hot and cold metal water pipe to be made electrically continuous or be bonded.
According to the Administrative Laws of the State of North Carolina in order for a code enforcement official to reject an installation that code enforcement official must give the code section that is in violation. To the best of my knowledge this is true nation wide where there is a qualification board that issues certificates to code enforcement officials.
I do know that it is one of the requirements of the International Code Council as outlined in their administrative codes.
I ask for a simple statement quoted form the NEC or a link to the amendments that you use as a certified code enforcement official to enforce making something that a plumber has full authority over to be electrically continuous or that a bonding jumper be installed across a water heater.
Would you please be so kind as do this one simple thing for this poor tired and pathetic old man?
