Building a house
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I'd fill mine with 2-way switches, plug-ins, undercounter lights, Ground Finding Circuit receptacles, arch faults on all the ro-MAX, and install lightning rods on all my fuse boxes.
I'd also have my office wired with isolated outlets, cat 4, and repressed cans lights with spectacular baffles on rheostats.
I'd also have my office wired with isolated outlets, cat 4, and repressed cans lights with spectacular baffles on rheostats.
Jim W in Tampa
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- Tampa Florida
With out a dought emt if planning on keeping the house. Plenty of switches. And a FPE panel so can weld from any room.
Would make larger family room ,800 feet really too small
Would make larger family room ,800 feet really too small
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Karl H
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- San Diego,CA
I'd do a 400 amp service, with 4 bolt-in panels, low voltage landscape lighting on the deck and up the front walk, couple troughs, christmas light contactors with switched soffit outlets and outlets under every window for candles. Stair lighting, tray ceiling lighting, too. Oh wait, I already did all that.....
Seimans B44 cans with romex looks weird to me.
Nice looking job though.
peter d
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That is the most classic example of extreme overkill I have ever seen.
But it does look great. 
e57
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- San Francisco, CA
Wireless power - and "Clappers" for EVERYTHING!
Truthfully if I had the full range to whatever I wanted - the structure would look like a Russian Othodoxed church a la Guadi on the outside and up-lit with more metal halides than the Mormon Temple. On the inside it would have an open floor plan and what few walls would be nonstructural (i.e. movable/removable) via PT slab decks with dropped cielings at 16'AFF. Of course every wall and ceiling would be able to be used as a secret passage/service/utility pathway - like many of the things we dream of on every job we do..... And every wall would be my own Jackson Pollack paint job....
Truthfully if I had the full range to whatever I wanted - the structure would look like a Russian Othodoxed church a la Guadi on the outside and up-lit with more metal halides than the Mormon Temple. On the inside it would have an open floor plan and what few walls would be nonstructural (i.e. movable/removable) via PT slab decks with dropped cielings at 16'AFF. Of course every wall and ceiling would be able to be used as a secret passage/service/utility pathway - like many of the things we dream of on every job we do.....
And every wall would be my own Jackson Pollack paint job....
StreamlineGT
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That is the most classic example of extreme overkill I have ever seen.
I have EMT in my shop wall too, just because I wanted to.
peter d
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- New England
I have EMT in my shop wall too, just because I wanted to.
Looks like you're primed and ready to become a Chicago electrician!!!
StreamlineGT
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The messy finished product.....
I have EMT in my shop wall too, just because I wanted to.
Hopefully this is the 'during' image....
steelersman
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- Lake Ridge, VA
why would you want to knob and tube yourself?
peter d
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- New England
Karl H
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- San Diego,CA
I have EMT in my shop wall too, just because I wanted to.
Great job! You've done Hospitals I can see.I'd rather dig a ditch than
pipe another wall in a hospital. I did 4 months doing just that
piping walls.I think I'm breaking out in a cold sweat as I type.
StreamlineGT
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Great job! You've done Hospitals I can see.I'd rather dig a ditch than
pipe another wall in a hospital. I did 4 months doing just that
piping walls.I think I'm breaking out in a cold sweat as I type.
I've actually never done any hospital work. I've never even put pipe in a wall before, this was a first for me. I will continue to do that on some other walls in the basement I want to build.
Karl H
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- San Diego,CA
Never? I must say your a natural. I have guys that have been doing it
for years and can't even make 3 bends in a pipe with out a coupling
or six.My hat is off to ya!!!GREAT JOB!
peter d
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- New England
I changed my mind. I would go with a Wadsworth panel, Anaconda or Hatfield Romex, and Circle F wiring devices
Karl H
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- San Diego,CA
See now you sir are in-touch with the Days when things were made
with pride.When Made in America ment something!
ivsenroute
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- Florida
Strip the sheathing off the NM and run it like K&T, all high-hats and a wall switch every 6' whether is does anything or not.
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