New Construction Electrical Rough In Inspection-What They Look For

morning guys welcome back to the channel i forgot my other camera today so i guess we're doing it on an iphone so i hope it looks good for you so today we're going to talk about what's required for a roughing inspection on a home and what the actual inspector looks for when he comes so we're gonna point some key features out here today and uh stick around and watch the show now some of the most important features on a roughing inspection is having your boxes wired correctly having your box heights done your panel installed and following all your electrical code rules so we're just going to do a walk around here some of the electrical you can see we have our boxes on the wall uh here's the three gang box for example braced on both sides and our wires going in and running up through the wall with our holes dispersing off throughout the room now we also have pot lights in here we use smash plates or what we call smash plates it just makes it easier for the wire to come down where it's supposed to be then we know where to cut it when it comes to the face out stage or putting on the plugs the switch is this is actually the kitchen um you can see here we have some switches in the kitchen next to the patio door and then it goes around the kitchen with the stove and under camera lighting and the actual counter outlets uh for what were required by code here so we're actually required by code to have uh a number of outlets on the counter as the counter goes along any counter space over 10 inches needs to have a code outlet 20 amp at 44 inches high so these are some of the things that the inspector is going to look for when it comes uh just little things like box loading and how many how many wires we actually have inside of a box he's going to look for things like how well is the stove receptacle braced and he's also going to look for neatness and also stapling of wires so those are some key features that they're going to be looking for uh when they come to do the inspection you can see around the room here and you'll notice the tape the tape is for blown in insulation which is going to be uh next week but basically we don't need to put vapor barrier around our boxes because they're doing the blown-in insulation which has a vapor barrier right in it so you can see some plugs here in the living room and around the room now it's every 12 feet that we need an outlet so that's also another thing that the inspector is going to look for um and he's going to look for anything over a two gang box to be actually braced so anything over this size is going to need an actual brace on it it's just to keep the box steady so that it doesn't get pushed back into the wall so i'll show you what i mean here over here you can see we have a four gang box and that is a brace on the other side and that's just simply to protect the box and to keep it lined up when we put it into the wall now you may ask yourself do these code rules really matter and yes they do actually that's why we have inspections on properties we have an electrical inspection authority that comes out and does the inspection so they have to put their stamp of approval on it before they give what's called a cover-up inspection so in order for the contractor the general contractor to insulate vapor barrier and drywall we need to get the electrical pre-inspector in this roughing stage so you can see through here as we go through the bathroom we have a bathroom fan installed a pot light over the sink here by the sink we have some outlets and a gfci and you can see how we stable our wires we do all separate wiring staples just because we're not allowed to double up wires under one staple so that's one another thing that the inspector is going to be looking for he's also going to check to make sure that we have these smash plates and i mentioned earlier that the smash plates we put them in to make it easier but it's also a code necessity when we do drywall ceilings we don't need to do them for wood ceilings um anywhere there's a regular light box for okay but anywhere we have a ceiling fan it needs to be priced for the proper box and we need to use the proper boxes for the proper applications so you can see here we come down to a chew gang wall switch and there's actually too many wires here to staple individually so we use what's actually called standoffs so these standoffs allow us to put more wire within that space or that cavity and in addition we also need to have smoke detectors here in each room and we need to have them on each level so this is a one level host so we can have one in the hallway which is out here and then we can have a smoke detector in each bedroom now obviously all that stuff ties back to the electrical panel and it all has to be tied in for the rough end inspection at least the wires need to be inserted into the panel we need to have the grounds done up so that what we do there is when the inspector comes to do the inspection uh he gives us an actual roughing inspection with a construction hookup so this gives us up to 10 circuits on the construction hookup so that the contractors can keep working and we can remove the temporary service from the outside the building and the reason for this is because the temporary service is only rated for 30 or 40 amps and we can go up to the full 200 under a construction hookup for the actual host this allows the contractor to hook up any construction heaters and get some temporary heat going so that they can uh dry the crack fill especially when it's in the colder months now you can see here everything terminates back to the panel i have one of my journeymen uh he's actually putting the panel in now panel's up in place and he's working on tying all these wires that i've showed you throughout the house back into this panel and it's going to terminate it i don't really want to get in his way here but basically you can see where it comes into the panel and he's going to insert all those conductors from the ceiling down um and then go into the panel on each side another thing worth i mentioned when we're running low voltage cables or phone and cable or internet or whatever we're running we're supposed to keep them two inches off the other electrical wires so this is something that the electrical inspector also looks for you can notice they're bundled together there in a separate bundle we need to keep them two inches or 50 millimeters off the other electrical wires and this is just for frequency noise or noise interference so that's something that they want to see and another thing they don't want to see them coming down through the same hole so if you have a communications line and this is very important you can see here on one side we have the electrical box and then on the other side we have the communication that communication runs all the way up the wall by itself and goes through separate set of holes so that we don't bring that through with regular electrical wires now these are obviously all uh issues and code rules that we follow on a new home there's not it's not too bad once you get used to it we do it quite frequently but the inspector does come in and he checks over the code rules and no call us on any or fail us on any that we need to fix up and like i mentioned this is all before the drywall goes on so this is important uh and this is actually inspection day the inspector is coming later on and he's going to have a look through our wiring and then put his stamp of approval on it once a stamp of approval is done like i mentioned then we can get the power hooked up and move forward from there now when we come back after the drywall is all up that's when we start to do what we call the face out we put on our plugs our switches our light fixtures our pot lights and we tie the actual rest of the panel in and start powering up circuits so that's pretty much it that's what's involved on a roughing inspection um hope you like it 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Length: 7min 52sec (472 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 20 2022