Wiring
The attic wiring has been completed - 5 lights and a couple outlets. We're having a conduit run up from the basement to the attic so we can run more wiring to the attic later. According to the electrician, it is now against code now to run wiring through conduit inside the house. He said the code people are afraid that the wiring inside the conduit will get hot. So if we want to turn the attic into living space, we'll have to wire it "under the radar". We also had the option to run a homerun wire to the attic that could be used later to wire a sub-panel upstairs. We opted for the empty conduit instead.
Electrical boxes have been nailed to the walls in most places around the house. Yesterday, the wife had the electrical worker describe to me how all the homeruns would be run. I asked for some changes. In our area, the city requires no more than 10 outlets on one circuit breaker; the county allows 13. Since we are in the county, he was wiring 13 outlets per circuit breaker in several places. I asked for some more homeruns and specified which rooms/areas that each homerun would supply. I definitely don't like 13 outlets on a circuit because that means if I want to add one more outlet in a room, I can't just tie the outlet to an existing outlet because the circuit is already full. I would have to run a new home run just to add one outlet to a bedroom on the opposite end of the house.
He also wanted to put the master and hall bath outlets all on one circuit breaker. I told him that would be ok. However, my wife today noticed that both baths would be on the same breaker and said that won't work. If both baths were on the same circuit breaker, we would not be able to have a people in both baths running hair-dryers simultaneously without tripping the breaker. So we're going to ask that each bath get it's own home run.
Here's the electrical breakdown as best I recall:
Circuit 1: Master BR outlets
Circuit 2: 2nd and 3rd BR outlets (13 total - yuk). I asked him to wire these bedrooms in a way that I could easilly put each BR on its own circuit breaker myself later.
Circuit 3: Foyer, hallway, front porch, and laundry outlets.
Circuit 4: Dining room/office outlets
Circuit 5: Dedicated outlet in the office closet (for computer electronics)
Circuit 6: Washing machine
Circuit 7: Dryer
Circuit 8: Kitchen outlets
Circuit 9: Living room outlets
Circuit 10: Master bath outlets
Circuit 11: Master bath in-wall 240V heater
Circuit 12: Hall bath outlets
Circuit 13: Hall bath dedicated outlet for space heater
Circuit 14: Garage and back porch outlets
Circuit 15: Attic outlets
Circuit 16: One outlet in the basement garage plus one outside outlet by each of the two exterior basement doors.
Circuit 17: Whole house fan
Circuit 18: 240V water well pump
Circuit 19: Lighting for all 3 BRs
Circuit 20: Foyer, hall, dining room/office lighting
Circuit 21: 5 flood lights, 4 porch lights, 2 lights by exterior doors, garage lighting (I'm not certain about this one)
Circuit 22: Lighting and vent fans for the master and hall baths
Circuit 23: Kitchen lighting
Circuit 24: Living room lighting
Circuit 25: 5 attic lights
Plus circuits for utility equipment (HVAC, gas water heater forced air venting, etc.)
