Originally Posted By: gbeaumont This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi James,
The SEC should not have been covered by the replacement siding, I would write it up as in need of repair, you very commonly see this when a home has been resided with vinyl.
Yes. It looks unprofessional, shouldn't have been covered and I hope they don't screw their Christmas lights through the SE cable. 
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Originally Posted By: pabernathy This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I am always amazed at the crap a person will do just because they do not want to spend a few bucks to feed a Electrical Contractors family…all in the process of saving a few bucks…
Heck even our company would have come and removed the supports for the mast SE to allow them to side under it.....heck probably would have done it for $ 50-100 dollars...provided they are their to do that part first so we can re-attach the SE to the wall.....
Anyway.....someone run to this guys house and spray a ORANGE line up the wall to tell people a SE cable is under here...lol
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Originally Posted By: pabernathy This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Very true…and as I believe someone else said …and this is important for all HI’s to remember…
1.) If you can't see it...Disclaim it...the more you guess the more you will assume...and we all know what a$%-u-me means....lol
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Originally Posted By: pabernathy This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi’s are working for the buyer in most cases and not the city…what the buyer chooses to do with the information is their business and I am in belief HI’s DO NOT need to go beyond that scope and start being reports to the city officials.
Originally Posted By: lkage This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
pabernathy wrote:
Hi's are working for the buyer in most cases and not the city....what the buyer chooses to do with the information is their business and I am in belief HI's DO NOT need to go beyond that scope and start being reports to the city officials.
That's for sure...I've got enough to do without adding these contacts.
I think the CYA Len talks about can be addressed in the report.
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Originally Posted By: dvalley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Keep in mind in other cases (when you observe new siding), tug on the SE meter. I find meters that aren’t even re-attached to the house after siding has been completed. To include installing an adequate amount of clips onto the SE cable.
Originally Posted By: wdecker This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I have seen this a great deal, when people enclose and side their back porches.
Around here, they like the SE to be in rigid pipe. The picture looks like it is the older flex cable. The code (in Chicago) calls for this SE to be placed in rigid pipe if there is any work done. They claim that removing the SE from the wall and putting it back after the siding is up is sufficient new work for they to require that the SE be reinstalled in pipe.
But, even when they don't cover the SE, I see people, all the time, just putting it back up. When the code guys see this (new siding, old flex SE) they get mad and start fining very heavy.
I have warned a coupld of clients that this would occur. I didn't want them buying that liability (for the fine) with the house.
Code inspectors in Chicago routinly check the house sales transactions (pulic records) and check out the place after the sale. Some look for violations, some for $.
Originally Posted By: pabernathy This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Heck Will…everything in Chicago is in Rigid Pipe or EMT…As an electrician you would not PAY me to wire homes in Chicago…I hate EMT enough much less wire a house in it…not be buddy…lol…
Originally Posted By: bbadger This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
pabernathy wrote:
Heck Will......everything in Chicago is in Rigid Pipe or EMT......
At least as far as electric work Chicago is on it's on planet. 
They seem to brain wash the children at an early age that the rest of the world is burning down from the use of NM. 
They are also convinced that it is difficult to remodel a house if it is wired in NM. Kind of odd that they feel this way as they would not have any experience in doing so.
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Originally Posted By: pabernathy This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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They are also convinced that it is difficult to remodel a house if it is wired in NM. Kind of odd that they feel this way as they would not have any experience in doing so.
I hear ya brother.....seems to me the same amount of fires from electrical issues happen in chicago as anywhere else with older wiring..but hey I do not ever plan to do work in Chicago....lol
I simply can't imagine wiring a house in EMT....now manybe ENT ( Blue Flex ) but heck.....even that would not wish to do.
Sure I have done commercial work and well.....we use AC in most of those down here...so doing it all in EMT would not be something I would like to do in a house per say.....we have done it in all commercial jobs but again they are what we call "BLUEPRINT" jobs in that we place things where the plans state it....but in a house you have to be more flexible in placements and we know how carpenters can build some spaces so I just can't imagine getting a conduit in some of those places...lol
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