This cross-question MUST BE ANSWERED by a personage owning a copy of the 2008 National Electrical Code? Here's my challenge: (1) I moved into an apartment that...
Here's my challenge: (1) I moved into an apartment that have no GFCIs in the Kitchen give or take a few 20 inches from the water faucet; (2) on Daylight Savingstime Day, I go to check the batteries within my smoke detector and was surprised to see that the detector be hard wired - it be also melted and showed black soot around multiple connections (I immediately go to the fire department - they were furious, thought that the fire inside the device have happened a LONG time ago and clearly hadn't been tested within years - I went me home next to 2 smoke detectors which I immediately installed); (3) For a month or so my kitchen ceiling reading light didn't work, and I suspected old bulbs. I took rotten the fixture last week to find NO BULBS, BUT ALL BURNED wires inside; and (4) 3 days ago I pulled the cuff to turn on my closet light, it come out of the wall, sparks shot out, and its breaker won't reset. I NEED PROOF for management that I have need of a licensed electrician for these issues. please site the code section
Answers: Since you're a advocate:
1. The Year of the NEC that applies to new construction is granted by the municipality.
(Not all Cities use the hottest Code)
2. When a building is granted a Certificate of Occupancy, that's the Code that applies.
Updates to existing buildings can be required
by special ordinance, but otherwise, once it's
approved, it's 'grandfathered'.
If you are concerned with Code compliance, you
have need of to know when the building was approved.
The several instances of has-been wiring you report
are a business of concern. They indicate that the
entire wiring system is suspect.
Is this by any arbitrary aluminum wiring? - There
own been instances where on earth this is not properly
terminated leading to the sort of problems you
describe.
If you're aquainted next to the Inspector, he's the one
to whom suspicions of an existing, or emerging,
hazard should be reported.
Call code enforcement. They will write up the manager & he will have to to everything to code because they will re-inspect. Your tenant is not going to believe a bunch of yahoos anyway. I understand that the fines can be substantial. Poor cheapscate manager. . . . . should have listen to you in the first place.