[Strawbale] Cable chase under bales

[Mark Frazier]

Dion,

IIRC, the code calls for a box every *12* feet. They must be placed  
such that an appliance with
a 6 foot cord can be plugged in at any point along the wall. You also  
need an outlet on any wall
section wider than 6 feet (I think - can somebody confirm?).

So, I think I just cut your workload in half... :-)

On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Dion Hollenbeck wrote:

>
> What I want to avoid at all costs is outlet boxes in the bale
> walls.  I can easily run the wires under the floor and come up
> anywhere, but I am more interested in using the toe-up for installing
> the outlet boxes.  With 160' of interior perimeter walls, and the
> electrical code requirement to have boxes every 6 feet, that is about
> 26 boxes I have to put in the bale walls, and I don't want to have to
> do that.  First, boxes in bales are much harder, and secondly, the
> electrical inspector will require that he inspects when the wiring
> running between the bales is exposed, making me have a single course
> of bales sitting waiting for the inspector.  If I can put the boxes
> in a chase, I don't have to have any bale walls partially done
> waiting on electrical inspection.
>