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The future buyer of your home would like to ensure the safety and correctness of the wiring. The future buyer also needs to know what the limits of the system a
by jimktrains2 9y ago
The future buyer of your home would like to ensure the safety and correctness of the wiring. The future buyer also needs to know what the limits of the system are, so that they don't accidentally overload it, and if it is overloaded that it performs appropriately (i.e. stop instead of catching fire).
A future buyer may, thinking the house is to code, attempt to connect the house to the grid. If it is not wired appropriately that can also cause risks to the occupants.
Future contractors also need to know the set up of the system. Being done differently could possibly very real safety risks.
Neighbors would like to ensure that your house does not catch fire, risking their houses.
- JshWright 9y agoFirefighters would like to ensure that your house does not catch fire, risking their lives.
- sddfd 9y agoThe requirement to use the same wiring precludes the home owner from having an additional low-volate wiring in the house. Most modern devices use low voltage nowadays, check what any of the power supply units for your laptop, phone, etc output to the device. Low-volate is less dangerous, and international regulations (IEC 60449) reflect that. I'm not an expert, but it is likely that besides the law discussed here, such wiring would be legal even without approval. It definitely is in Germany, and to say the least, we like regulations.
- jimktrains2 9y agoI'd be surprised if it precluded the use of low voltage wiring because there are standards for it as well. The issue is that the law ends up with houses needing the 120VAC connection to the grid. I don't think that doesn't mean there can't be a secondary low voltage line, but ianal.