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If a 2'-0" section of wall has a door on either side in a room in a dwelling unit, is a receptacle required to be installed on this 2 foot section of wall *IF* it has the coverage of 6'-0" from nearby receptacles?

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It would be odd not to have a receptacle on the 2 foot section because let's say a lamp is going here. The cord would be running across the doorway to be able to plug into a receptacle.

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Yes any wall space 24" or greater requires a receptacle. Another receptacle within 6' of the opposite sides of the doors would also be required. One has no bearing on the other as the wall space is broken by the two doors.
 
210.52(A)(2)(1)
(2) Wall Space.
As used in this section, a wall space shall include the following:
(1) Any space 600 mm (2 ft) or more in width (including space measured around corners) and unbroken along the floor line by doorways and similar openings, fireplaces, and fixed cabinets that do not have countertops or similar work surfaces
 
infinity said:
Yes any wall space 24" or greater requires a receptacle. Another receptacle within 6' of the opposite sides of the doors would also be required. One has no bearing on the other as the wall space is broken by the two doors.
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So in this section, you can't "count" the receptacles within 6'-0"? So basically doors reset everything.
 
While I tend to agree with this interpretation (because of the obvious hazard of have a cord run in front of a doorway), the basic requirement in 210.52(A)(1) does not express this unambiguously:

210.52(A)(1) "Spacing. Receptacles shall be installed such that no point measured horizontally along the floor line of any wall space is more than 1.8 m (6 ft) from a receptacle outlet."

It would be clearer if it said that "no point within any wall space, measured horizontally along the floor line of that wall space,"

Cheers, Wayne
 
jim dungar said:
Why would it be clearer duplicating words in the same sentence?
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Because there is not currently any explicit text requiring that the "receptacle outlet" at the end of the sentence be within the same wall space as the point under consideration. A lenient interpretation of 210.52(A)(1) would cause us to answer the OP's question "no, no receptacle is required within the 2' wall space if there are receptacles within 6' to either side of the center of that wall space."

Cheers, Wayne
 
wwhitney said:
Because there is not currently any explicit text requiring that the "receptacle outlet" at the end of the sentence be within the same wall space as the point under consideration. A lenient interpretation of 210.52(A)(1) would cause us to answer the OP's question "no, no receptacle is required within the 2' wall space if there are receptacles within 6' to either side of the center of that wall space."

Cheers, Wayne
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How do you get that? 210.52(A)(2)(1) says walls 2 ft or more "..... and unbroken along the floor line by doorways" The Doorway resets the measurement count.
 
Fred B said:
How do you get that? 210.52(A)(2)(1) says walls 2 ft or more "..... and unbroken along the floor line by doorways" The Doorway resets the measurement count.
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210.52(A)(2)(1) tells you what counts as wall space. There is in no explicit text in 210.52(A)(1) that requires the receptacle to be in the same connected region of wall space as the point in question. Which is what the OP's question was.

This is in contrast with the text in 210.52(C)(1), which says "no point along the wall line is more than 600 mm (24 in.) measured horizontally from a receptacle outlet in that space". The bolded words are missing from 210.52(A)(1).

Given that comparison, I'm inclined to change my answer to the OP to be "the text of the NEC does not require a receptacle in that 2' wall space if you meet the 6' requirement measuring across the door, but best practice is to put one there."

Cheers, Wayne
 
I say the code does require the receptacle.

You don't have to use it, but if you don't install it, someone will want one there.

There should be no reason to cross a doorway with a cord.
 
wwhitney said:
210.52(A)(2)(1) tells you what counts as wall space. There is in no explicit text in 210.52(A)(1) that requires the receptacle to be in the same connected region of wall space as the point in question. Which is what the OP's question was.

This is in contrast with the text in 210.52(C)(1), which says "no point along the wall line is more than 600 mm (24 in.) measured horizontally from a receptacle outlet in that space". The bolded words are missing from 210.52(A)(1).

Given that comparison, I'm inclined to change my answer to the OP to be "the text of the NEC does not require a receptacle in that 2' wall space if you meet the 6' requirement measuring across the door, but best practice is to put one there."

Cheers, Wayne
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You're forgetting the "unbroken along the floor line by doorways...." part.
 
Little Bill said:
You're forgetting the "unbroken along the floor line by doorways...." part.
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I'm not claiming that the doorway is "wall space". I'm saying that 210.52(A)(1) does not have any text that precludes a receptacle outside of a given wall space from providing the requisite coverage for that wall space. There's no "in that space" or equivalent language, like 210.52(C)(1) has.

Cheers, Wayne
 
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