Well a few years ago when I had my service upgraded the electrician ran into that scenario. With my home built into the side of the mountain he could not drive the 8' rod so he cut it into two 4' sections and put them about 4" apart. According to code at that time you needed 8' but it did not have to be one solid piece. The inspectors had no problem with the install. Lenny
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic There must be many places where you couldn't drive an 8 foot rod into the ground because of obstructions like boulders or even bed rock. Takes a pretty tall fellow to do that as well. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: NLG To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic The last 2 houses that I did a complete rewire job on (from the weather head through, including meter socket, breaker box, ect and these had to be inspected, the code was to have 2 ground rods 8 feet long no farther than 5 feet apart driven into the ground for grounding the system.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:54 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic Last summer I had the electric meter moved and they replaced my ground while they were at it. They ran a heavy Copper line across the basement and to the far side of the water meter. They also ran a heavy Copper line through the basement wall and attached to a ground spike. So I think current code, in Pittsburgh at least, is the two ground system, water line and ground spike. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
