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_thea6d ago

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.

the_lisa6d ago

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

miller.rowan6d 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.