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Electrical inspector nightmare

totosplants
13 years ago

First of all, please excuse my complete luck of knowledge of terminology and a typical female way I will try to explain the problem.

We are doing major kitchen remodeling, using lisenced professional contractors. But the town electrical inspector is a huge PITA. He said that he will NOT allowed any inside cabinets lighting to be hard wired inside the walls! So we must have outlets and plug lights INside the cabinet! I have never heard anything as ridiculous as this. Same issue with undercabinet lights. He demanded to have separate box for each undercabinet light with the wire going into it! Not a plug, but still an ugly box with black rubber center and wire coming in. In my supposedly beautiful tiles backsplash!

His reasoning is that all inside and undercabinets lights are hardwired and manufactured the way they can not be wired inside the walls!

Anybody please HELP! What should we do??? Any solutions (except killing inspector please).

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