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Installation Concerns
Hello reddit community - I was hoping to get feedback on two questions below. For context: I had a radon system installed. One of the pictures here shows how it was originally installed, with a hole in the brick wall above the pipe. You could see through into an inside wall cavity, and loose bricks were originally just placed there. The contractor also ran the electrical cord through this same hole and plugged it into a pre-existing outlet on the inside of the home. I asked the contractor to come back and he glued wooden pieces onto the wall to cover this - this is the second picture.
- Regarding the electrical — I spoke with my city's building department and looked into the applicable code. The current setup, with a flexible cord run through a hole in the wall, appears to violate the 2023 National Electrical Code Article 400.12(2), which explicitly prohibits flexible cords from being run through holes in walls. Is this normal to just run the electrical through the same hole that you cut for the radon pipe? How much of a potential hazard is this? worried that when I sell the home down the line, this will get flagged
- Regarding the hole in the brick penetration — is glued-on wood really a permanent solution here? Won't this eventually cause water damage once the wood cracks or warps from weather exposure?
u/cogs21 — 7 days ago