So I got a good deal on some trusses...

[Inspector507]

He already said he didn't want to do that
<font color="blue"> I also don't want conduit running up the outside of the building for aesthetic reasons, looks like *** </font>

 

[Farwell]

I did that with the plastic conduit using a movie light. It worked just fine. Took a little practice before I got it right. I worked for the railroad as an apprentice when I was a kid and watched one of the old timers from the steam engine days take a piece of inch and quarter copper pipe, filled it with a tamped moist black sand, soldered a cap on one end, corked the other end, put it in a vice with soft jaws, heated it with a torch and bent it into a circle about the size of a steering wheel. I am still impressed.

 

[dholly]

Thank you, I have fired my friendly info source... a licensed electrician. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

In the end, I came into the wall cavity using the LR conduit body mated directly to the outside LB, then thru a 45* el and up into the box. The LR was a PITA to pull the 4-wire thru, but it all worked fine.

I cut the wall stud off and made a mini stud header for support, framed out the area and will put in an access panel when drywalling. So, I will still have the panel in the wall but at least it won't open directly to the feeder wire, which was my real safety concern (3 inquisitive kids + screwdrivers = potential disaster).

The Cat5 and one of the shielded 3-pair will terminate in a recessed work box in the adjacent wall cavity, and get puncheds down to terminal blocks. From there, I'll use for alarm, spares and possibly some low voltage wiring.

 

[dholly]

After leaving a service loop for a telephone near the service entry, I ran the other shielded 3-pair direct from the basement to a 'comm box' at the workbench.

This should get me a wall telephone by the entry and a tel jack at the bench for an extension or dial-up internet backup. The two remaining pairs will be for LAN use to the cable-based high-speed house network. I can tie into the ground connector at the telco block in the basement.

I also bypassed the work box and ran the RG cable from the cable tv amp in the basement direct to the workbench comm box. The quad wall recept will be a dedicated circuit inside the corner computer, tv and entertainment system cabinet-to-come.

 

[dholly]

I took some tips from other members and decided to place some wall recepts under windows so they would not end up being hidden by shelving, benches, etc. I also placed several receptacles above benchtop height round the primary work walls to accomodate the larger tools.

Code here requires all garage recepts on GFCI breakers or, as a cheaper alternative, all recepts on a circut run where the first recept is a wall GFCI recept. I have planned the S.E. wall recept circuit to begin at the work sink cabinet countertop GFCI recept. and move around the workbench and rear wall. There are a total of (5) duplex and (1) quad receptacles on this circuit.

 

[Larstan]

Nice work around it looks great.....

 

[woodlot]

From the photos it looks like you have all your recpticals and switches installed in the boxes but not wired (and not drywalled) what gives?

 

[dholly]

The N.W. recept circuit begins with a GFCI recept under the breaker box (or maybe on the front wall, haven't decided yet), goes up and over the large overhead garage door then feeds (2) duplex and (1) quad the wall recepts and into the switch box at the rear overhead door. Those switches will operate the carriage light at the rear OH door and a spot in the rear peak. Left these wall recepts low, as I intend only wall cabinets here.

 

[dholly]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( From the photos it looks like you have all your recpticals and switches installed in the boxes but not wired (and not drywalled) what gives? )</font>

Had to keep my youngest son busy for a bit one afternoon, and he's still too young to let loose on the tractor for mowing. So he had fun learning and 'helping' Dad in the garage for a while. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[dholly]

Earlier in the thread, I mentioned that we cut the buried supply wire to the driveway post light when excavating for the slab. The wire was originally routed around the end of the driveway turn-around. The line was actually cut to the side, rather than directly off, the end of the turn-around. This older pic shows the location (cone).

This turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it got me to thinking. I brought the post supply into the new garage thru a 1" LB into a junction box and up to the front carriage lights. Now, I can turn on the house garage and new detached garage carriage lights at the same time from a single switch in the house garage AND feed the post light, which now gets a photo eye for auto dusk-dawn operation!