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Residentil building steel bonding

spencer_electrician

14 years ago

I was asked a question today from a person buying a 1980's house about their home inspector noting the lack of bonding of their structural steel. They asked whether this should be added. I believe in the eyes of the code there is no difference to this than any other metallic structure. Should this be retrofit to all major separate metal structures?

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spencer_electrician
Original Author
14 years ago
Sorry about my stupid way of spelling Residential in the subject line. Love not having an edit function as always.
brickeyee
14 years ago
Is it likely to become energized?
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Ron Natalie
14 years ago
and add to Brick's question, is the steel exposed? If the answer is no, there's no NEC code requirement to bond it. Frankly I'd do so anyhow if it were up to me, but it may not be a defect.

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