On Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 9:25:50 AM UTC-4, Peter wrote:
On 9/13/2017 8:49 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 5:44:10 PM UTC-4, x Hades Stamps
wrote:
replying to RBM, x Hades Stamps wrote: Couldn't you just install a
longer cord?


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No. It's still a code violation for a number of reasons, including
the new one of modifying UL listed eqpt. You can't use flexible
unprotected cord fastened to ceilings, walls, etc to power
permanently mounted eqpt. In this case it would go across a ceiling
and half way down a wall.


When you try to interpret the codes, it all depends on the definitions
of "unprotected" (is an outdoor, waterproof extension cord
unprotected?), "flexible" (steel girders are flexible; is Romex
flexible?), "fastened" (if I screw an eyelet into the ceiling of the
garage, attach a one foot length of nylon twine through the eyelet and
knot a loop around the "protected" and "inflexible" wire, is that
fastened?), and "permanently" (is that more than overnight, a week, a
year, a century, a million years?).

You make it sound like this is totally uncharted territory. It's not.
Most of those terms are defined in the NEC and this particular issue
is very clear. A given AHJ is free to follow or not follow NEC.
If the person interested wants to know for sure what their inspector
will say, they can go ask.




And, if you sell the property "as
is" and the buyer waives an inspection contingency, is it still an
illegal sale? Lawyers love real estate disputes! All those billable hours.

Who said any sale would be illegal?