Electric utility, service equipment, and home connection
Record the serving utility and dated response, approved service point, utility-owned work, meter or service-equipment responsibility, temporary or permanent stage, customer-side electrician scope, feeder and home-connection boundary, HVAC or other equipment dependencies, permits, inspections, release communication, energization, corrections, restoration, and closeout evidence. The utility and licensed professionals control the actual design and work.
Water, wastewater, and plumbing handoff
Separate public-water or private-well work from customer-side plumbing, and public-sewer or onsite wastewater work from the building connection. Record the approved or confirmed connection point, permit or source record, trade scope, testing or startup requested by the responsible source, inspection, correction, restoration, and completion document. Do not infer capacity, pressure, yield, quality, gravity flow, design, or approval.
HVAC crossover and startup responsibility
For a multi-section home, identify who owns the crossover or duct connection, equipment, controls, electrical or fuel handoff, condensate path, manufacturer-required startup, inspection, correction, documentation, and warranty registration. Use the home and equipment documents and qualified provider instructions; this page gives no sizing, connection, testing, or operating procedure.
Utility trenches and restoration
Put every proposed electric, water, sewer, communications, gas, or other route on the current site plan. Ask each utility, authority, and qualified provider whether separation, crossings, easements, locating, inspection, access, sequencing, bedding, cover, stabilization, or restoration affects its own work. North Carolina 811 coordinates notice to member facilities; it does not identify every private line or approve a shared trench.
Final inspection, release, and occupancy are different records
A provider saying work is complete, a passed trade inspection, a local utility-release communication, utility energization, an overall final, and an issued certificate can occur at different times. Track the permit, requester, result, correction, sender, recipient, and issuing source for each one. Only the responsible local authority and utility can confirm the actual project status.
Limitations and common mistakes
Do not use this guide to perform work, choose equipment, establish trench details, conceal work, energize or pressurize systems, start equipment, interpret an inspection, or authorize occupancy. Common mistakes include assuming setup includes all trades, paying from verbal completion, covering work before inspection, treating utility service as occupancy approval, and losing the documents that define correction or warranty responsibility.
