Can we talk about the janky grounding job I saw at a grocery store in St. Louis last week

Whoever ran a bare copper wire across a drop ceiling and taped it to a sprinkler pipe should have their license pulled, has anyone else seen hack work like that in commercial spots?

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the_thea1mo agoTop Commenter

Depends on the inspector honestly. If it passed, maybe the tape was listed for fire suppression systems and nobody bothered to put a connector on it. Code is more like guidelines when the building was built in 1972 anyway.

dakotab9327d ago

Nah, hard disagree. That tape is probably fine, people just freak out because it looks janky. If it's been there since the 70s and hasn't caused a fire yet, that stuff is clearly not the problem. Half the buildings in my city still have knob and tube wiring and nobody's burning down. The real fire hazards are people overloading old circuits with modern electronics, not some tape holding a connector together.

the_lisa1mo ago

Tbh that tape is a fire hazard waiting to happen, not a code workaround.

miller.rowan1mo ago

Caught an article last week about old commercial buildings and fire code stuff. @the_thea's right that 1972 codes were a lot looser than now, but that tape stuff still sketches me out.