Stevenfyeager
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Is it ok to run UF cable in a house ? Is it fire code ? I was thinking that was the problem with it. Thanks
UF wire inside of house?
- Thread starter Stevenfyeager
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In house for a short distance?
Did you check uses allowed in UF article?
Did you check uses allowed in UF article?
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Take a look at 340.10(4). Basically it can be installed as if it were NM cable.
LarryFine
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I would kill whomever specified UF for an entire house, though.
winnie
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Is that 'kill' read 'stabby stabby stabby' or 'kill' read 'charge so much they have a heart attack'?
LarryFine
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I was thinking the former; the latter would mean no satisfaction and no payment.
electricman2
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There are few things more frustrating than stripping UF in a tight box then seeing that glimpse of shiny copper right where the jacket ends.
Unless it's old style UF it's not that hard to strip. Free up the EGC at the end and pull it back ripping the sheath to where you want it to stop being exposed then grab the other conductors one at a time and pull them from their sheaths.
Granted it is not as easy as NM but it's not the PITA it once was.
Roger
Granted it is not as easy as NM but it's not the PITA it once was.
Roger
LarryFine
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- Electrical Contractor
I've had decent luck using the Klein NM stripper on UF.
hillbilly1
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I wired a house for my cousin, so he supplied all the material. We ran out of 12-2, so he said he had some 10-2 uf cable left over, we could use it to finish. Never again! The whole living room was wired in it! LOL!I would kill whomever specified UF for an entire house, though.
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As I recall USE is not rated for control of fire spread along the cable and so is not approved for use inside, and URD (Underground Residential Distribution) without a dual description is not an NEC type and so cannot be used on the customer side of the service point,
hillbilly1
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But this is type UF, whole different animal! LOL!
Coppersmith
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I had a small house I totally rewired due to a fire. It had an outside panel that we reused. Inspector required I use UF for all the home runs.
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- Placerville, CA, USA
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- Retired PV System Designer
Arguing that NM could not be used in an outside panel, even one mounted on the side of the house? Few inspectors would take it to that extreme. Code says that the inside of an outdoor conduit is a wet area, but applies no such restriction to an outside panel.
Coppersmith
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Except in this case the cable was going through conduit out the top of the panel and into attic space. Had it been going into the back of the panel, no UF would have been needed, but a lot of connectors and wall penetrations would have been. Inspector would not buy my argument that covering the pipe with a metal chase made it an indoor pipe.
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
UF is one of the very few things (electrically speaking) that I go to Lowes to buy. The jacket on the brand they sell does as you said, peels back easily. The stuff that my SH sells is so hard to strip that rats won't even chew on it!
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