Originally Posted by
Bill Kriegh
The way I see it is that "other effective means" includes tape, and the AHJs I deal with do too. You don't see it that way, and maybe your AHJs don't either. I don't read into "other effective means" that tape is excluded and you somehow do.
Nope, not reading anything into "other effective means" that SAYS that "tape is excluded", however, "tape" is not even meant to be "permanent", therefore "tape" has excluded itself.
So, whenever you elect to say that no tape is a hard fast rule I'll remind you it isn't until the code folks elect to clarify what they want.
And I will continue to remind everyone that tape is not "permanent" - when is the last time anyone has seen "tape" coming loose on something? Today, yesterday, ... ? Tape is not "permanent".