Inspections

So I have no idea if I've posted about the ongoing house addition project before or not, but I have some big news.  We FINALLY passed our electrical inspection!!

Woo hoo!  We have been trying to pass this since April and our electrical inspector has been finding reasons to fail. First it was the TR outlets. We had no idea he would count our addition as new construction and that he wouldn't let us match outlets the ones in the rest of our house.  So 72 outlets later, we have changed them all over.

Then he didn't like the direction that the cover to our outdoor plug opened.  Fixed that.  He didn't check it.  That figures.

Up next was a squabble over the location of the outlets in our hallway.  He wanted us to add one.  He didn't mention this during the rough inspection, rather he waited until the sheet rock and insulation were all in place.  Wonderful.  We (grudgingly) fixed that... he didn't comment on it/check it.

Last, but certainly not least from a financial standpoint, he wanted our breakers to be of the arc fault variety.  Now, again, that law is for new construction and ours was an addition. We wound up shopping on eBay for the breakers to save some money because those things are crazy expensive!!  $46 EACH!  The weird part is that he didn't give a flying rats behind that the old breakers were just regular ones - he wanted arc faults for the NEW outlets only.  So now there are 2 types of breakers in my circuit box and I'm pretty sure that violates the warranty and at least 1 electrical law. Just sayin'.

Anyway, ole cranky pants came out again and checked everything out and said it was fine!  Finally!  No more electrical inspector!  Any further electrical work will be done sans permit because I am not dealing with that man again!  lol - Just kidding, I don't plan on doing anything else with wires or wiring or any of that good stuff.

On a side note, one thing he wanted done is in direct conflict with something the fire department wanted done.  He thinks the smokes should be on their own line while the fire department says they need to be attached to an overhead light.  Guess we'll be changing that before our fire inspection this afternoon. lol  Wish us luck!!