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#94239 07/20/05 07:15 PM
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I'm stuck looking for a route from a basement to an attic for a 100A subpanel. I'd rather not run conduit up the outside. Can I run SER next to the vent stack? That would provide the simplest, cheapest, easiest way to do it, but you know how that usually ends up...

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#94240 07/20/05 07:17 PM
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sorry, forgot to mention that it's a 100yr old house (new 200A in basement) and the stack looks like cast iron.

#94241 07/20/05 08:07 PM
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You can do this.

#94242 07/20/05 08:23 PM
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Sweet. Is this allowed in the code or just not addressed? I've been looking for a while now.

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#94243 07/20/05 09:20 PM
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I don't think you'll find many references to plumbing in the NEC.
A chase is a chase is a chase.


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#94244 07/21/05 05:46 AM
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The code is not a design manual. It does not address every possible scenario of an installation that might come up. Would you normaly not run wiring near plumbing?

#94245 07/21/05 09:09 AM
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Normally, I'd just run it around plumbing, but this is a bit more than a 20A circuit just crossing a pipe's path. Stranger things happen, I was just making sure, never did it or saw it before. I guess I won't have to say that after this.

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#94247 07/22/05 09:16 AM
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#94248 07/22/05 05:47 PM
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All persons on this site need to have a sense of humor or they don't stick around. Speaking of problems with running wires near stacks etc., I was trying to thread conduit on a location in Nebraska where I had to run a cord accross a set of RR tracks and the threader was running real slow and overheating till I propped the cord up with a 2x4 and got it away from the RR tracks.


George Little

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