Code compliant and silly looking.

[Cow]

I would of tried to come up on the same side of the gen as the gas, with flex doing the transition to the gen. This would of allowed you to orient your conduits right here so they wouldn't have to cross at the house side.

I would also have done whatever it takes to keep the conduits against the wall of the house where they came out of the ground. If that meant heating them and custom bending(we have a hotbend torch) or doing back-back 45's to go over the footing or even jackhammering a small chunk of the footing out to sneak through, then that's what it is.

 

[cpinetree]

I would get a small load of crushed stone, could be decorative if the location warranted, and fill the area between the generator and building, perhaps put down weed block fabric. Cheaper and easier than placing more concrete, and nobody needs to mow or trim back there.

Stone on either side of a few pavers to run sch80 across.

 

[Coppersmith]

Thanks for all the comments.

 

[rayertz]

I'm wiring this generator which is 3 feet away from the building. I could have run the pipe straight over to the wall if I built a support for it but I thought it would look ugly. So I buried the pipe below 18" per the code but it looks kinda silly since it goes down 18" then by the time the 90 flattens out it's only a foot or so across before it hits another 90 to go up. What worse is since a footer was discovered poking out about a foot I can't run the pipe flat against the wall. This is 1.25" and 3/4" schedule 80 pipe. I thought about using IMC and only going down 6", but I thought it would be too difficult without a bender or threader. Was there a better way?


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if the stub up's at the gen were moved in line with the nat gas pipe and seal tight used to the gen there wouldn't be an issue. Why LB's? Where is the seal tight, vibrating equipment right?

 

[cowboyjwc]

If it's only three feet you could have run EMT or Rigid over to the wall, I'm pretty sure, unless you have really tough inspectors, that you could have passed. Both have an exception of fastening within 5' where structural members do not readily permit fastening within 3'

 

[Crw16]

embed raceway in or under concrete. reduces burial depth.