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Subject - inspection old house
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veganfan
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When doing an electrical inspection on and older place how do you judge it? You can not require it to be up to 2002 code, but how do you know requirements for dwelling of its time? I mean do you have to learn or look up code for like 1983?
Just wondering on how this works. I mean assuming it has not been rewired.
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David Hyatt
| I would suggest upgrading the outside panel and the heavy loaded circuits inside. If every thing is safe: no open splices and such, consider doing away with inside fuse box, and all other things would be under the code when it was first built. The way they look at it around here if you don't touch it it doesn't have to be brought up to current code. Hope that helps.
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Ryan_J
| What kind of inspection are you doing? A home inspection for a potential buyer? A remodel? An addition?
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veganfan
| I am currently an industrial electrician. So no inspection just wondered how it would work. Because figured the inspector can not possibly know all code books to date, and if very out date. How they would figure out what was violation or if just safety and not too worried about out dated code.
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David Hyatt
| I am sorry, I thought I read you were upgrading a house not inspecting one. Guess I was in a hurry.
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