Residential Basement wiring questions

[jason]

OK maybe it wasn't NEC?? but I read it somewhere??? On the bathroom wall at recodepo? Anyway my point being on down the road at a point in time you will be better off with 12 gauge. Example.. costumer calls for me to install small overhead heater in bathroom/ No go.. 14 gauge wire,heater requires 20 amp circuit. Run your average circular saw 17, 18 amps etc. etc. This is why requirements came in effect in bathrooms and kitchens.Your right Stickboy!!! "thats funny right there"!! I don't care who you are"!

Let me get this straight. If you wired the house and put the bathroom on a 20 amp circuit with 12 gauge wire and later the homeowner wants you to install an overhead heater, you'd use that same bathroom circuit? What happens when you have that heater (that pulls 12 amps) and that hairdryer (that pulls 12 amps) on at the same time? You'd be called back to fix the problem right?

IMO thats poor quality work. My point being, regardless of if you used 14 or 12 for the bath fan, if you install a heater later you should pull a new circuit.

 

[billsnuff]

14 v 12

14 v 12

yes, i have 12 in my cave, i also have 14. i did as iwire suggested.

had the guys in yesterday for poker and not one asked about the wire. shucks, no one even looked at the outlets to see if the grounds were up or down.

Yes, my cave, my rules........I won. now, shuffle up and deal....

 

[S'mise]

wire like you mean it

wire like you mean it

yes, i have 12 in my cave, i also have 14. i did as iwire suggested.

had the guys in yesterday for poker and not one asked about the wire. shucks, no one even looked at the outlets to see if the grounds were up or down.

Yes, my cave, my rules........I won. now, shuffle up and deal....

You da man Bill, I cannot deny. Ahhh, don't start the ground up/down debate here! I suspect enough debate to lock up the server.

btw, nothing wrong with wire size overkill. (as far as nec anyway) You just might have trouble terminating #8 on a 20amp duplex.