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10-03-2012, 11:20 AM
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is 14/2 ok for fridge ?
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Originally Posted by notmrjohn
" I'll be an expert too"
But you're already an "inspector" is it possible to be both? 
Besides the Mouse is over 10,000 but he's still a rodent.
What with all this "required" or maybe not, 20 amp for small appliances, bell wire for garbage compressors, and 6 feet tall outlets , and dedicated water lines, and GFCI's on garage door opener remote, and havin to put 20A plugs and #8 wire on our desk lamps, I think the "experts" who are writing and/or interpreting the codes are drinkin more than 20A PM beer. |
Thanks for the laugh!
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10-03-2012, 12:35 PM
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is 14/2 ok for fridge ?
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Originally Posted by electures
There is no requirement to continually update an electrical system everytime the NEC changes. If it was safe when it was installed, it is still safe today. I built my house 27 years ago and wired it under the 1984 NEC and there is nothing unsafe in it. There is no need to update anything for the sake of "keeping it up to code".
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I do understand that house wiring doesn't need to be updated to code but not having a GFCI outlet next to the sink doesn't sound safe to me. Also when I say 'not done to code" I mainly mean it wasn't done to ANY code, ie if an inspector had actually been called in to check it wouldn't have passed in the first place. That's the kind of stuff Im 'updating'.
*edit* and yes I am aware of what a GFCI outlet actually is designed to do and what it doesnt do 
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10-03-2012, 01:20 PM
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" a GFCI outlet next to the sink doesn't sound safe" safer than non protected, but safer to keep any a few feet away. Garbage disposal, dishwasher outlets are usually below sink, probably directly under dripping faucet. Put a drip loop on the cord.
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10-03-2012, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by notmrjohn
" a GFCI outlet next to the sink doesn't sound safe" safer than non protected, but safer to keep any a few feet away. Garbage disposal, dishwasher outlets are usually below sink, probably directly under dripping faucet. Put a drip loop on the cord.
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Sorry, I think you misread. I said not having a GFCI outlet next to a sink didn't sound safe. Kind of bad grammar on my part lol.
The dishwasher is hardwired in afaik. disposal was in violation when I was buying the house, made seller hire electrician to fix it. Its also plugged into a GFCI outlet under the sink and has a drip loop in it. Sink, back splash and counter top were also re-caulked.
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10-03-2012, 01:41 PM
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O I C, OC, you meant not not having not not having. Sorta like, its not a given that people who are not notmrjohn are not mrjohn and people who are not mrjohn are not notmrjohn. This thread is getting knottier by the minute, not naughtier, but nottier and knottier. I hope it is not all for naught.
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10-03-2012, 01:42 PM
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O I C, OC, you meant not not having not not having. Sorta like, its not a given that people who are not notmrjohn are not mrjohn and people who are not mrjohn are not notmrjohn. This thread is getting knottier by the minute, not naughtier, but nottier and knottier.
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11-27-2012, 10:41 AM
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update
the house is still standing
i just found out that the fridge uses 5.2 amps.
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