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You can say that again.



It spans the whole basement, with two support posts. This is the only place where a cable goes under it. The building is wood framed (same house as the Grandparents' Bath Pics) so I would say no, with the exception of the new cable rubbing up against it.

Ian A.

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I don't believe it's likely to become energized either, but you never know. I would have installed MC or AC instead of the NM-B to protect against physical damage. And of course the proper surface-mounted box.

Not to steal anyone's thunder, but it COULD be worse...

These pics show a door opener installed without such "professional" assistance:








I am especially impressed by the paperclip used to support the cord.

Hmm, Romex or an extension cord? Decisions, decisions...

Ian A.

Well...at least they used one of those 3-to-2 pin adapters for plugging the opener's cord into the extension. Normally I just see those things with the round pin snipped off.

Sven, the opener fed from the new 12/2 in my pics used to be fed from a 14/2 non-grounded cord, with one of those adapters.

Ian A.

That Jumbo-Paper clip as a bracket is honestly quite clever.... (I won't be trying it any time soon)

It almost looks like the light next to the opener in Johns pics are pretty much as well.... where or what does the fluorescent feed from?

Hey wait a minute, no fire rated board on the ceiling??? WAS there any at one time???
Call me paranoid but I would be worried about parking my truck in the garage and having it mysteriously ignite and have that take out the whole house, but I would be MORE worried about that "top notch" electric to the opener and fluorescent light burning the house down and taking my truck with it

A.D

Randy, it should not surprise you one bit that I was called to that place to repair fire damage!

Unfortunately, the garage was outside the scope of the job, so I didn't look all that close at it. I think the light was a similar plug-in arrangement.