Under the floor or on the wall??

hugo_inside · Post by **hugo_inside** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:31 am

what is the best way to put PVC ducts for electric wiring?? I see most people in this forum chose the floor for wiring... My electrician doesn't do this before... there is no problem if duct goes on the walls?

this is the room...

LiveWire · Post by **LiveWire** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:15 pm

why is your electrical going in conduit?

You should have conduit for audio cabling, but I am sure BX or romex in the wall will meet your building code.

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:45 am

Not really; commercial facilities (which Hugo's will be) have stricter codes in most places.

Hugo, at this time (building too fast, planning too slow) you're pretty much limited to surface mounted METAL conduit, unless you can convince your local inspectors that there won't be a risk of physical damage to plastic conduit -

IF this proves to be true (if I'm not missing an important point) then running the conduit at about 0.6 meters above the floor will allow you to mount your wall absorbers/treatments just above the conduit so it doesn't look out of place so much.

Don't run your power conduits closer than 1/3 meter to any audio wires or their conduits, or you'll get hum in the audio lines... Steve

LiveWire · Post by **LiveWire** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:39 am

I din't realize that it was a commercial space, by the picture I thought it was his basement.

Sorry about that. If it's a commercial space then your right the codes are totally different

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:12 am

No prob; with only 3 posts so far, unless you've been lurking for a year or two you'd have no way of knowing from just that post. I wasn't jumping on you, we don't do that here (or else

) - only clarifying the situation for minimal confusion.

Welcome to the board, BTW - Apparently Keith (our "Mere Mortal Walmart Greeter") must be sleeping on the job again -

... Steve