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Jiles

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Just got through with some simple modifications to the wiring in my shop.
It turned out to be a major job because of the way it is wired.
All the wiring is with 12/2 with ground and the entire electrical system was done by STRETCHING the romex! I had to run about a hundred feet of new wire!
Not even enough slack in the romex to add a junction box.
If a connection ever fails, it will be very difficult to cut the burned wire back and make a good connection, except for the work I did.
This is not the first time I have ran into this problem in virtually every home I have owned.
All this to save a few inches/feet of wire???
I guess if a so called electrician does this, he might save one roll of wire from doing 10 houses.
 
Hey, they may have saved themselves two, or even three whole dollars! Good thing it wasn't wired by a politician, or you could have miles of extra wire that went nowhere and did nothing! :p
 
(quoted from post at 22:50:18 11/29/13) Hey, they may have saved themselves two, or even three whole dollars! Good thing it wasn't wired by a politician, or you could have miles of extra wire that went nowhere and did nothing! :p
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Well--I guess you are right. At least I wasn't tripping on loose cable!!
Like the saying goes--"It could have been worse".
 
Stretching wire like that is the mark of an amateur, not a Pro. We know that someday the system will need to be modified and try to allow for it. The code calls for 6" of conductor in each junction box for a reason. By the same token looping romex over ceiling joists with one twist to the foot is another evidence of another amateur.
 

I don't know about wiring/insulation. But when I worked on chainsaws I found that a fuel line stretched tight fatigued much faster than the same line relaxed.
 
If you are wirenig a shop, you need to be using conduit and pull stranded 12g wire, black. white, and green, and by code you need a green pigtail in each box. The 20a recepticals also have to be stranded wire compatible, not just a screw to wrap a wire around. This is what I am in the process of doing now to rehab my garage into a shop. I'm a retired contractor, and doing my own work in my own shop, but insurance co's will find any fault to get out of paying a settlement. exposed romex in a "shop" is a great excuse.
Loren, the Acg.
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Copper has a thermal expansion of 9.3x10 6th per inch per degree Farenheit. It will contract at the same rate.

It was not a good idea to stretch the wire.
 
(quoted from post at 16:53:20 11/29/13) If you are wirenig a shop, you need to be using conduit and pull stranded 12g wire, black. white, and green, and by code you need a green pigtail in each box. The 20a recepticals also have to be stranded wire compatible, not just a screw to wrap a wire around. This is what I am in the process of doing now to rehab my garage into a shop. I'm a retired contractor, and doing my own work in my own shop, but insurance co's will find any fault to get out of paying a settlement. exposed romex in a "shop" is a great excuse.
Loren, the Acg.
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Don't forget the greenies on your ground wires.
 
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