On Aug 6, 10:18*am, bob haller wrote:
On Aug 6, 10:11*am, "
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On Aug 6, 10:00*am, Duesenberg wrote:

On 8/5/2012 3:53 PM, wrote:

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:35:50 -0400, Duesenberg wrote:

Why would a GFI be placed on a freezer or refrigerator anyhow? *It's bad
enough when there is a power outage and these appliances go off, but
normally the power is restored long before these foods are ruined. *A
tripped GFI does not notify the owner of the failure, and it may be days
before the woner finds out what occurred.

A GFI should never be used on a freezer, refrigerator, sump pump,
sewerage pump, furnace, or life support device.

If he kept his freezers in an unfinished basement, doesn't the code now
say to have gfi?

Yes, that's the issue.

I had a home for sale the home inspector wrote up the sump pump was
not GFCI protected, sump pump was in garage. So I added *the GFCI, but
the sale fell thru

the 2nd home buyers inspector wrote up that the sump pump should NOT
be GFCI protected......

there was no way to win.......

selling that home was a nightmare.....

the 2 different inspectors reports had nearly nothing in common, and
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And apparently neither knew that the code requirements in virtually
all
cases are not retroactive. Meaning that whatever applied when the
outlet for the sump pump was put in is all that needs to be met.
With the view they had it's a wonder they didn't come up with a
whole list of crap.