There must be many places where you couldn't drive an 8 foot rod into the ground because of obstructions like boulders or even bed rock. Takes a pretty tall fellow to do that as well.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: NLG To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic The last 2 houses that I did a complete rewire job on (from the weather head through, including meter socket, breaker box, ect and these had to be inspected, the code was to have 2 ground rods 8 feet long no farther than 5 feet apart driven into the ground for grounding the system.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:54 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic Last summer I had the electric meter moved and they replaced my ground while they were at it. They ran a heavy Copper line across the basement and to the far side of the water meter. They also ran a heavy Copper line through the basement wall and attached to a ground spike. So I think current code, in Pittsburgh at least, is the two ground system, water line and ground spike. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
