tonype
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey
None of these seems strong enough to resist the shearing force exerted by the side of a car negligently driven along the garage wall.shall be protected by any
of the following:
(1) Rigid metal conduit
(2) Intermediate metal conduit
(3) Schedule 80 PVC conduit
(4) Electrical metallic tubing
(5) Reinforced thermosetting resin conduit (RTRC)
(6) Other approved means
How are the subject to physical damage?
Townhouse development about 24 years old. 6 meters on the outside of a garage foundation wall - all SEC's travel along the inside of the garage wall very close to the vehicle access area. Shouldn't these have been in conduit or provided with some other means of protection from damage? View attachment 7833
None of these seems strong enough to resist the shearing force exerted by the side of a car negligently driven along the garage wall.
Maybe the studs in the garage wall cannot even resist this much force.
Looks like a cinder block wall.
They should have been protected.
The installer & the inspector with common sense and experience will determine what is subject to physical damage what conduit would work best for protection. You can't protect what ifs. The best that you have available at the time of the installation is RMC. So use it to protect the cables.
Why are 6 meters on this one townhouse? Im guessing for other townhouses SE.. Is that a Common practice in that area, having other peoples SE going through someone elses space?[/QUOTE
Give that man a segar!!!!!!