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Originally posted by: ApacheXMD
You can't just run romex along the cinder block wall. The electrician will have to run EMT conduit from the panel to the receptacles. That will add time, labor, and of course cost.

If you want to do this yourself, you'd have to buy the EMT, buy/borrow/steel an EMT bender, get couplings and box connectors, enough black and white 12guage wire, a fish tape, pull string, metal boxes, metal receptacle covers, the receptacles, a drill, masonry drill bit, wall anchors and screws, one hole EMT straps, a wire stripper, wire nuts, and you'd have to know what you're doing in the panel to not kill yourself. But getting shocked really isn't that bad. I've been zapped a few times..

-patchy
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Patchy,
Are you SURE about that. The basement is already wired with lights and an electrical connection where the well pump used to be. There is no conduit in the ceiling (floor joices). The ceiling has plain romex (10 guage I think) until right before the cinderblock wall. At this point the romex goes into the conduit which then runs down the wall (this wall is next to the wall I would be doing.



flamingelephant,
I wish I was going to be framing in the basement. Unfortunately not.🙁 Before I would ever think of that I think the basement floor would need to be replaced. It is in fine shape, but was built back when they put in floor drains and put a gradual slope to either of the two drains. So the floor is not level.


 

The floor isn't needed to be level to finish the walls. However, you can put down a sub floor. Find out the code needed for your home when apply for the home owner permit at the city hall.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I thought the conduit was only required to reach to the wire handling space (which in this case would be the basement ceiling) - not all the way back to the panel. In fact, I've NEVER seen it go all the way back to the panel in a residential situation.
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Happens all the time here.. But of course it depends on local codes and the configuration of the house and panel.

Originally posted by: Sundog

Patchy,
Are you SURE about that. The basement is already wired with lights and an electrical connection where the well pump used to be. There is no conduit in the ceiling (floor joices). The ceiling has plain romex (10 guage I think) until right before the cinderblock wall. At this point the romex goes into the conduit which then runs down the wall (this wall is next to the wall I would be doing.



flamingelephant,
I wish I was going to be framing in the basement. Unfortunately not.🙁 Before I would ever think of that I think the basement floor would need to be replaced. It is in fine shape, but was built back when they put in floor drains and put a gradual slope to either of the two drains. So the floor is not level.
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How high is the basement ceiling? Well if you already have romex in the ceiling of the basement, you might as well continue with that. The idea is that Romex shouldn't be readily accessible out in the open, because some people might do something stupid and kill themselves. At least here in San Francisco, I think code requires that conduit be used up there if the ceiling is less than 8 feet.

Even so, romex shouldn't go into conduit. You run Romex into a juction box and the conduit comes out of the box too. But the point is, it's not as simple as running Romex to the receptacle box. Sure the job is still pretty simple, even with a full conduit run. But for the average joe to do it, he'd have to acquire quite a few tools. And an electrician, of course, will have all of those thing ready to go in his truck/van.

-patchy
 
Liquidtite is your friend! 🙂

Check with your local codes always! You may be permitted to nail or screw a strip of wood to the wall and run your NMSC (Non Metallic Sheathed Cable - Romex) down this and mount a box on it for your receptacle. NEVER run NMSC along masonry! I've seen people do it and even use those clips and remove the nails and put concrete nails in them and secure the cable! Yikes!

Cheers!
 
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