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sound like everyone hear has back problems...im about to redo my family room and all outlets (I'm sorry, receptacles) are going in the baseboard. how often are you actually reaching for the plug other than a vacuum?
 
HuntNJ said:
sound like everyone hear has back problems...im about to redo my family room and all outlets (I'm sorry, receptacles) are going in the baseboard. how often are you actually reaching for the plug other than a vacuum?
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It's not a problem for me - we have a housemaid for those chores. And no, it isn't my wife.
 
Open Neutral said:
The "2" that stands out for me is 2 as in duplex outlets. I always spec quad/4.
I don't design kitchens but on backsplashs it would be 4 every location.
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I redid my kitchen, and I put a duplex receptacle every other stud bay - 32 inches apart, 2 inches above the countertop, and I turned them horizontal.
 
Little Bill said:
It would be a problem using frost proof hose bibs if they were higher. They are long (12") and the walls would have to be thick or the faucet would stick way out on the outside. That's why they are placed for under the house, or from a basement, as was already mentioned.
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When not able to go through the rim board for whatever reason you about need to line up with where an interior wall meets an exterior wall and run it into the interior wall. Happens a lot around here. A trend I am seeing in many newer homes is "zero entry" or no stairs to enter the home. Some of these are bringing the exterior side of foundation walls pretty much as high as floor level and setting floor framing on a ledge within that exterior wall so they can bring finish grade to right about the floor level at entry doors. They are doing this all the way around the house sometimes which makes more challenges for electric service entry, heat pump/AC lines etc. exhaust vents that normally would have poked out the rim joist are also more of a challenge. I ended up running vent for bath exhaust fan in a basement on one of those houses more recently in rectangular duct up an interior wall and then out a roof cap. In past most such fans would been vented through the rim joist.
 
Birken Vogt said:
I have to hunt up 2700k lighting, it seems like the default for everything is 5000k operating room color.

It is my home where I read and relax and sleep, not do surgery or paint cars
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Supposedly about 3500K brings out the truest colors of things. Not many seem to want that color though. That should be about what halogen lamps produced. Back in the 90's and early 2000's most thought those were great.
 
Besoeker3 said:
I remember baseboard switches here in UK but that was a long time ago. Now we use 300mm (about one foot) above the floor.
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I've seen a couple of houses which had baseboard switches. I really did think it was a novel idea. Especially coming in with arms full of groceries, How easy would that be
 
James L said:
I've seen a couple of houses which had baseboard switches. I really did think it was a novel idea. Especially coming in with arms full of groceries, How easy would that be
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I don't quite follow this? Why you drop the groceries at nearly floor level i.e. baseboard level?
 
ptonsparky said:
H

And I think he is just a young whippersnapper!

More and more I want two feet on the ground. Definitely not one in the air, in the dark, randomly kicking for a switch I can't see.
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And, for us, it needs to be at least 300 mm (3 feet)
 
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