Not A Stone In The Backfill

[480sparky]

When you find yourself digging up a lawn to replace cable under warranty i hope you remember how much you saved.

If you figure in the 6 inches less you need to dig it offsets the cost.

If i have any say in the job it will be in pipe, i simply do not enjoy digging twice

I have yet to dig up anyone' lawn to replace a cable under warranty that I installed. Knock on wood.

What's I'm saying is you condemn a wiring method simply because someone else's laziness causes you to work for money.

If you find a house with NM in it, and someone drove a 3" screw through the NM, are you going to quit using NM and run rigid in all your houses?

If a snow- or ice-storm starts ripping overhead risers off houses, are you going to summarily dismiss overhead services?

UG cables are a fact of life. If you want to make every customer of yours pay for the Cadillac of wiring, then fine. But some people must make a choice when it comes to spendin their money.

If you're so dead set on a raceway, let me introduce you to my patented, copyrighted SupeRaceway.

 

[Jim W in Tampa]

If the added few dollars for pvc will make or break this install then you are underpriced to start with

 

[hardworkingstiff]

If you're so dead set on a raceway, let me introduce you to my patented, copyrighted SupeRaceway.

480,

Can you send me some info on the length it comes in, and how it's coupled and terminated? I may have some use for this.

 

[TOOL_5150]

480,

Can you send me some info on the length it comes in, and how it's coupled and terminated? I may have some use for this.

I figure, if its worth doing, its worth overdoing!

~Matt

 

[cadpoint]

I like Jim's answer on soil composition!

There are available state geo - maps or Federal deciated maps showing / presenting a summary average of aggregate and there respective compositions!

Some minor study's of aggregate and moisture, Cowboys Thread on Sheetrock sure puts it in propective...

Alex, I'll go with Is that a Pin hole in the plastic jacket installed on the wrong day temperature wish?

 

[cadpoint]

If you had the service Isolated, why not a base line test of that ?

Plus the chemistry thing...

 

[Cow]

What all you 'conduit only for me' folks don't think of is all the millions of miles of cable in the ground that still works just fine.

Does that analogy apply to backstabbed receps too?

 

[480sparky]

Does that analogy apply to backstabbed receps too?

Absotively posilutely!​

 

[flashlight]

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If you're so dead set on a raceway, let me introduce you to my patented, copyrighted SupeRaceway.

...

Love this raceway, however am afraid to look at the fill tables for it..

 

[nhfire77]

I love laying conduit. Conduit is easy for me b/c no one questions it here.

No POCO in my area allows DB.

 

[A/A Fuel GTX]

If the added few dollars for pvc will make or break this install then you are underpriced to start with

The cost of the PVC is not the issue. It's the labor to pull the wire especially for long runs.