New here, so go easy on me guys. I am an electronic engineer and NOT an electrician so I am looking for some advice. The situation:
I m ready to begin renovations to a commercial building and return it to a bakery. It has a drop ceiling. It has an 800 amp entrance feed, with a 200 amp breaker feeding to a newer 200 amp panel with main lug disconnects. There are some old romex circuits running to the bathroom and storage areas. Above the drop ceiling there are several pulls of flexible conduit half hazardous laying on the grid that feed to the troffer lights and also to circuits down the walls. The conduit is not secured to any of the lights, splices are not in boxes, and they even have the ground wires from some of the feeds wrapped into the ceiling grid.
I know enough to know that this isn't up to code. My feeling is that this really needs to all be pulled out and reworked. My question is: can romex be ran in emt and flexible conduit systems? Meaning fully enclosed loops and such? I know there will be the recommendation that I pull THHN, but I have loads of 12-2 and 14-2 Romex laying around left over from a residential garage build. I will also need to pull new 50a circuits to feed a set of ovens. Any insight and advice would be greatly appreciated. Specifically what codes I may need to refer too, as I do not get along with the local inspector.
I m ready to begin renovations to a commercial building and return it to a bakery. It has a drop ceiling. It has an 800 amp entrance feed, with a 200 amp breaker feeding to a newer 200 amp panel with main lug disconnects. There are some old romex circuits running to the bathroom and storage areas. Above the drop ceiling there are several pulls of flexible conduit half hazardous laying on the grid that feed to the troffer lights and also to circuits down the walls. The conduit is not secured to any of the lights, splices are not in boxes, and they even have the ground wires from some of the feeds wrapped into the ceiling grid.
I know enough to know that this isn't up to code. My feeling is that this really needs to all be pulled out and reworked. My question is: can romex be ran in emt and flexible conduit systems? Meaning fully enclosed loops and such? I know there will be the recommendation that I pull THHN, but I have loads of 12-2 and 14-2 Romex laying around left over from a residential garage build. I will also need to pull new 50a circuits to feed a set of ovens. Any insight and advice would be greatly appreciated. Specifically what codes I may need to refer too, as I do not get along with the local inspector.
