[RE-wrenches] Pole Mount PVC

[Ray Walters]

I've only done it that way when some Bozo forgot to install the conduit 
in the concrete.  Definitely not the preferred method.

Ray

On 1/3/2012 3:19 PM, Drake wrote:
> At 01:48 PM 1/3/2012, you wrote:
>
>> This is a very common way to install this conduit, so I  really would 
>> like to know how this inspector would route wire from the top of a 
>> pole down into a trench while passing through a concrete footer. 
>
>
> The instruction was to install the elbow above the footer and run pipe 
> along the top of the concrete, then LB into the trench.  This was not 
> directly told to me by an inspector, but by a NABCEP certified 
> installer who said he has been forbidden to run pipe through the 
> concrete by "building departments".  The theory was that the conduit 
> would weaken the anchor.
>
> I've got another pole mount coming up, and wanted to make sure that 
> there wasn't something I was missing, possibly from the UBC.
>
> Thanks to all who helped clear this up.  I plan to run the pipe 
> through the concrete, as always.
>
> Drake
>
> Drake Chamberlin
> ATHENS ELECTRIC LLC
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>
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