Thank you. This all seems like good advice.

With reference to the imperfectly covered receptacle and switch covers: what I am not sure I have an appropriate treatment for is the case in which the plane of the box is not parallel with the plane of the drywall. There is one particularly obvious case between the doors to the kitchen and the 2d floor west bathroom. I think that what I will do is to buy a metal face plate, which won’t crack as the plastic does, if possible an extra-wide one,  and some additional screws and spacers for screws, as were listed on the Amazon page. 

Klemens Meyer, MD
Tufts Medical Center
Mobile 617-549-5539

> On May 10, 2022, at 12:39 AM, Ernst Meyer <ernstmeyer@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> a) The kyleswitchplates.com products might indeed be useful, but not necessarily more useful that what I showed you on amazon.com. The kyleswitchplates seem, at first glance to be unreasonably expensive.
> You might also consider buying a package of long electrical screws from amazon.com which are listed in conjunction with the extender boxes, although I'm not sure you would need the screws.
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> b) My advice is not to detach either of the black wires in the circuit breaker box to which you refer, because they might be feeding lights or receptacles somewhere. My respectful advice to you is
> b1) Not to mention to the inspector the circumstance that Rex Rowley has died, but to refer to an unnamed electrician as appropriate. My reasoning is that the inspector will tell you exactly what if anything he wants changed, and you then have the option to  make the required changes yourself. He would expect to return for a repeat inspection without the attendance of an electrician other than yourself.
> b2) Not to open the circuit breaker box prior to the inspection, except for cause. If you do open it, be very careful not to lose the screws.
> b3) At the time of the inspection have an appropriate screw driver ready, assuming the inspector himself will open the circuit breaker box, if he wants to look inside, or ask you to open it for him.
> b4) I remember now that the circuit breaker box WAS inspected initially before the electric company connected its transformer; possibly the inspector considers re-inspection unnecessary. Maybe he won't even want to go down into the basement.
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> I spent $60.00 for a microwave oven from amazon.com, which will provide me with how meals on the second floor, if you decide it would be better for me not to come to Nantucket.
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>> On 05/09/2022 11:46 PM, Meyer, Klemens wrote:
>> Thank you. I think that this may also be useful:
>> https://www.kyleswitchplates.com/deep-switch-plate-outlet-covers/
>> One other question about preparing for the electrical inspection: you will remember that although we sought a connection between the electrical circuit to the stairway lights and the smoke detectors, there is also a cable emanating from the circuit breaker box that you labelled as supplying the smoke detectors. The black wire in this cable is connected to a circuit breaker that also is connected to a second black wire. On previous trips, I had repeatedly checked the connections to the cable labeled as supplying the smoke detectors, and had found them to be secure. On my most recent trip, I used an external non-contact voltage tester that I had purchased for the purpose to verify that the cable conducted current. My question is whether I should disconnect this cable labeled as supplying the smoke detectors in the circuit breaker box, since it seems not to be connected to the smoke detectors. The reason for disconnecting it would be that it is a second connection to one of the circuit breakers. You told me that this was consistent with code, but I wonder whether it is conventional, and whether the electrical inspector, if he requires me to open the circuit breaker box, would object to it.