PRESS RELEASE
26
March 2007
Free single-family, electrical service calculator
for NACHI members
Most home inspectors and many
experienced electricians guess at the electrical service size
requirements using rules of thumb (usually involving only square
footage). With the rapid growth in the number of electrical
appliances and electronic equipment during the past few years,
making a guess could be a costly mistake.
The Single
Family Electrical Service Size Calculator takes the guesswork
completely out of determining the electrical service size
requirement. The Calculator requires no special knowledge of
electrical systems or codes. All you do is make basic observations
about the house and fill in the blanks. The Calculator lets you
enter electrical loads in either Amps or Watts. the required
information can almost always be found on the nameplates of
appliances and mechanical equipment.
The
Calculator will tell the "Demand Load" (a trade term, different from
"connected" load), the nearest standard size panel and main breaker,
the conductor (wire) size and the conduit size.
The
Calculator's worksheet can be filled out in about three to four
minutes and can be included with any inspection in PDF format.
Features of
the Calculator:
-Automatically calculates the total demand load for a residential
single family dwelling
- provides the demand load in both volt-amperes and Amperes
- Automatically adds the minimum of small appliance and laundry
branch circuits
- Automatically determines the heating and air conditioning demand
load
- Determines the standard service panel size for the system
- Determines the service wire gauges in both aluminum and copper
- Calculations are based on the National Electrical Code (optional
method)
- NEC section references under each heading
NOTE: This
worksheet is intended to be used as a general guide. It does
not account for all possible factors involved in determining the
size of an electrical service. Consult a qualified electrician
or the NEC® for additional information.
Get your free copy of the
Single Family Electrical Service Size Calculator by visiting the
NACHI Store at BestInspectors.Net. The Calculator is in the
Inspection Report section.
Follow this link to access the
BestInspectors.Net
NACHI Store if you
don't already have the NACHI Store bookmarked:
http://www.bestinspectors.net/NACHI-store_entry.htm
Once you are in the store, follow the "Inspection
Report Software" link near the top of the page. The
calculator is in the "Free Stuff" section near the bottom of the
Inspection Report Software page.
PRESS RELEASE
07 November 2006
Free Home Inspection Report
software for NACHI Members
Deciding which
reporting system to use is one of the most important decisions a
home inspector will make. It is a decision process that takes
time and careful consideration. Inspectors are often faced
with being in the awkward position of having inspection jobs coming
in but not have a good report. BestInspectors.Net is now
making its popular Legacy 3™
Home Inspection Report available to NACHI members absolutely free.
Thousands of
inspections have been done using Legacy 3™
in 49 of the 50 United States, All the provinces of Canada,
throughout the United Kingdom, and Australia. Legacy 3™
is a concise, easy to use report that can be used either as a paper
report or as an electronic report. The report is in PDF
format. Typed copies of the report can be produced in PDF
format quickly and easily using Legacy 3™
and the free PDF print driver "PDF Creator" which is also available
free from the BestInspectors.Net web site.
Inspectors who
later decide to move up to one of BestInspectors.Net's more
advanced report systems will find that making the transition is very
easy to make. All the pages from Legacy 3™
also appear in the more advanced reports, along with dozens of other
pages from which reports can be built, making it easy for the
inspector to make a smooth transition. Of course, as a NACHI
member, when the inspector does decide to move into a more advanced
report system, he will be assured of getting the lowest price
available through the BestInspectors.Net NACHI Store. NACHI
members can download Legacy 3™
from the BestInspectors.Net NACHI Store.
What about that
50th State? Texas requires home inspectors to use the Texas Real
Estate Commission (TREC) report form. TREC provides a free PDF
version of the form but, the TREC version is NOT a
fill-in-the-blanks PDF. BestInspectors.Net has a
fill-in-the-blanks PDF version of the form so that home inspectors
can type directly in the form and create as finished professional
looking report in PDF format. The BestInspectors.Net TREC form
is also available free upon request to NACHI members.
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