| I wondered about that too
When you refer to your inspector, do you mean a town/city electrical/building inspector? Or a home inspector when you're selling/buying the house?
regular inspector from city not a home one
My understanding is that the NEC required 30" of clearance width (not 36", but someone will correct me if I'm wrong).
I was wondering is that 15" on each side or 30" on each side?
Also, in most cases, existing installations are "grandfathered" in if it was up to code when it was installed.
I was thinking the same thing. I think his argument is that 2 years ago we added the metal air conditioning vent thing 3 inches from the side of the panel. That violates the "30 clear technically. So the metal vent is causing the infraction. The vent is about 4inches wide and 3 inches high how much could it obstuct things. I assume if the remove or move the vent (I have no idea if we could do this) we would be legal.
Thanks reply good points.. |