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Rewiring and junction boxes jimbob 10-13-2006
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on October 18, 2006, 10:16 pm


wrote:

>Actually when the wiring that room will be done there will only be one
>j box that will require some kind of cover /outlet/wallclock/doorbell
>etc. 1 wire comes in, 3 go out to outlets, like a spider. The rest
>others are next to the service panel. When the basement is finished,
>the service panel will be in something like a walk in closet. The j
>boxes around it will be easy to access.

Where's the connection to the ceiling light?
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Posted by Tim Fischer on October 18, 2006, 11:10 pm


> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:49:48 -0500, "Tim Fischer"
> You have something against weird? It's no uglier than a
> bunch of featureless cover plates.

Exactly. Which is why I wouldn't wire things that way. I said that many
posts ago earlier in this thread...

-Tim



Posted by Mark Lloyd on October 18, 2006, 12:18 pm


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:49:48 -0500, "Tim Fischer"

>
>Sorry, but if I saw a room with a row of ceiling-height outlets on a wall,
>I'd just think it was... weird...
>
>There are exceptions, of course, where you might want a single
>ceiling-height outlet or so (like near a window, for decorative lighting.
>
>-Tim
>

I've seen one. My grandmother had a high outside outlet put in. That's
just the right place for the holiday lights she wanted.
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"God was invented by man for a reason, that
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Posted by sylvan butler on October 16, 2006, 8:25 pm


> After reading your responses it seems that there is nothing inherantly
> unsafe or wrong about using junction boxes. The problem seems to be
> creating inaccessible splices that could fail later on and be difficult
> to find. Also using a lot of j boxes can make a simple circuit
> unecessarely complicated and hard trace later on. It's just not neat

Yup.

How about one centrally located junction box (e.g. under center of
floor) with wires out to each outlet in all directions (like a big ol'
spider). Or perhaps one JB in the NW corner and one in the SE corner,
each feeding two or three outlets on each adjacent wall.

Life isn't just all or nothing.

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Posted by Mark Lloyd on October 17, 2006, 2:28 pm


On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:25:29 -0600, sylvan butler

>> After reading your responses it seems that there is nothing inherantly
>> unsafe or wrong about using junction boxes. The problem seems to be
>> creating inaccessible splices that could fail later on and be difficult
>> to find. Also using a lot of j boxes can make a simple circuit
>> unecessarely complicated and hard trace later on. It's just not neat
>
>Yup.
>
>How about one centrally located junction box (e.g. under center of
>floor) with wires out to each outlet in all directions (like a big ol'
>spider).

That's the way most of my rooms are wired (except the JB is on the
ceiling, as this house is on concrete). I do sometimes with the lights
were on a separate circuit.

> Or perhaps one JB in the NW corner and one in the SE corner,
>each feeding two or three outlets on each adjacent wall.
>
>Life isn't just all or nothing.
>
>sdb
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69 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"God was invented by man for a reason, that
reason is no longer applicable."

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