My customer - builder - personal home - has constructed a "post and beam" style house - exposed beams in large kitchen - dining - family room area. Beams are 8x10. 2nd floor is decked with 2x6 planks.
He wants me to run up inside wall to 2nd floor, and then run out - across the decked floor - to hit the center of the beam and drop down to the room below centered on the beam, for the fixtures - 3 of them - cut in fan boxes - about a 6' run each across the floor. He proposes that he route a groove from the wall out the the point of drop down and protect it - overlay floor will be floating type "Pergo". Groove needs to be 1 1/4" to top of wire - right? If groove is 1 1/4" does it even need protection?
Several things come to mind.... romex inside EMT/RMC. MC wire. RWS Conduit. Metal wiremold. Could terminate the EMT/RMC with adaptors and bushings - could drill the 8x10 to accomodate the radius for the MC or RWS. Can't seem to find anything in the code that governs this.
Ideas? Suggestions? Appreciate the help.
