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Mule said:
Thats interesting....The other day, had a guy that just wanted us to do a partial rough in....probably so he could see how to do it???...but any way....we wired a mst bed rm...closet...mst bath...all was probably about 300sq/ft..smaller house..and we used a full box 250ft and didnt have any left for HR's. It included min code, PLUS 6 cans, HVL...bla bla

steelersman said:
that seems like alot of wire for such a small space. I just can't imagine it taking a full roll.....oh well.
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I just burned up 250'+ of 12/2 wiring my kid's room.....but then again...there's 11 recept.s; 3 switch locations(4 switch legs); 7 recessed cans; a CF; and 2 circuits :grin:

Code minimum?
I think not!

LOL


(The reason I used #12? I had it hogging up real estate and it needed to goooooooo......)
 
celtic said:
I just burned up 250'+ of 12/2 wiring my kid's room.....but then again...there's 11 recept.s; 3 switch locations(4 switch legs); 7 recessed cans; a CF; and 2 circuits :grin:

Code minimum?
I think not!

LOL


(The reason I used #12? I had it hogging up real estate and it needed to goooooooo......)
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everyone around here uses #12 havent seen a 15amp circuit in this town ever, unless it was a trailer house....or a goverment funded home of some kind
 
Mule said:
everyone around here uses #12 havent seen a 15amp circuit in this town ever, unless it was a trailer house....or a goverment funded home of some kind
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Why?
Local code thing?
 
steelersman said:
roughly 1 foot of wire per square foot of floor space, give or take a few hundred feet.

or maybe it's more like .75 feet of wire per 1 square foot of space.
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Thats a big number difference first you added sum and then go into a percentage. I don't play darts but I do like yahoo pool...
 
peter d said:
I'm sorry to hear that.
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Ok? you lost me :) Its the truth..:smile: ..I dont know why, its just always been that way...Now the old K&T houses they are full of 15amp ciruits, but the romex houses are all 20's
 
Mule said:
Ok? you lost me :) Its the truth..:smile: ..I dont know why, its just always been that way...Now the old K&T houses they are full of 15amp ciruits, but the romex houses are all 20's
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It's just a running joke/debate/argument we have here about 15 amp circuits vs. 20 amp circuits for general purpose receptacles in a dwelling unit.
 
celtic said:
Why?
Local code thing?
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You know, I was the inspector here for 5 yrs, and I dont remember any thing in anything I ever read...We have a few Indian tribe homes and they would have 15's, but they would be wired by roadies....but the locals...never
 
steelersman said:
But it's a new idea to me so I can appreciate that. I remember I learned the hard way that you can't share a neutral for 2 circuits if 1 of them needs to be gfi protected when I pulled 14/3 homerun to sump pump outlet and 14/2 out of that to the basement/outdoor recepts. gfi circuit.
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You can certainly share the neutral if you're using GFCI receptacles. Were you trying to use a GFCI circuit breaker?
 
infinity said:
You can certainly share the neutral if you're using GFCI receptacles. Were you trying to use a GFCI circuit breaker?
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no just a receptacle. And after I did it and it wouldn't trip or something like that (it was a long time ago) my supervisor said that they don't work if you share the neutrals and not to do it again.
 
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