Romex Question

[Gooch]

So what you are saying is that an inspector wouldnt notice sheetrock on the outside of the home?

Ive been in the industry for more than 20 years.

I know a thing or two about the inspection process.

What I find VERY hard to believe is that even during the subsequent inspections after the rough electrical, nobody said anything about the wiring. Sure there are some shady inspectors out there, but an error like this involves a good deal of people.

This isnt a simple, toss it in the wall, have the inspector say yay or nay, then close the wall up.

You have at minimum 3 different rough-in inspections. Once you pass those, you have your framing inspection, then an energy compliance/insulation inspection.

All before any sheetrock goes up.

3 rough-in's? WTF! I've never had an inspector out for more than one rough-in. They come out to inspect the service install, the rough-in, then the final. thats it, and when they do, they never look at the wire to see what it's labeling says. this isn't one inspector, this is multiple, infact every inspector i've dealt with never looked that closely at the wire, the only time they do is on a service install.

 

[IDASHO]

As I said, at MINIMUM, 3 rough-in inspections.

Whether or not they are all taken care of in one inspection is irrelevant

Electrical
Plumbing
Framing/structural

and in most cases you also have

gas/mechanical


When large subdivisions are going in, and there are many homes going up at the same time, most places have one inspector assigned to sign off on just one or two of these rough-ins. The traditional mid-scale subdivision will have at least 2-3 inspectors handling inspections, to split the load and cut down on mistakes/oversights.