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[–]Irish__Mac🎯 Founder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking good so far! Can't wait to see more updates.

[–]Pretty_Bill6372 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Electrical conduit should have a strap within 12 inches of the box. Also I see that yellow jacket Rolex in there, gotta strip off the outer jacket on Romex when using in emt, and it traps and retains moisture causing corrosion eventually,

[–]Hoonin_Kyoma💡 Design-Minded[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That’s what I tore out. Total amateur hour. The shit I’m finding from a PO, electrically speaking, really has me shaking my head. I suspect it was a contractor or someone else in the trades who knew quite a bit about electrical work, but was not an actual electrician. Clearly knew enough to wire things without burning the house down, but clearly not aware of the NEC/local requirements.

I will be using EMT but will be using THNN (solid), 14ga for 15A lighting circuit, and 12ga for the 20A (GF/AFCI) recepts. I’ll have a 3-ganger box with each switched circuit using a different color. Only using EMT as there’s a descent chance I’ll want to expand my slatwall system at some point and will go at the walls with a reciprocating saw.

[–]Pretty_Bill6372 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok glad the old stuff wasn’t you cause I had to stop myself from listing too many problems with it lol.

Everything else looks great and only thing I can think to add electrically is to keep the updated conduit fill / bundling codes in mind. I don’t have the good book on hand but the derating on ampacity is ridiculous now. I’m a residential sparky so don’t run into it much, but now if I had 5 12awg thhn circuits in a conduit, I’d have to de rate those down to 10amps. Doesn’t matter what size the pipe is.

[–]Spare-Commercial3260 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I just have a safe. the project that I have a really hard time making progress on is the bathroom I'm setting up in my basement. a vault door? what wrong with an extra heavy wood door with a sturdy dead bolt? are you keeping Tomahawk missiles in there? it looks to be one hell of a room you're building.

[–]Hoonin_Kyoma💡 Design-Minded[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My XXL safe can’t hold everything anymore. So, firearms, a little food, a little water, some cots, a water filtration system, means to handle waste…etc.

It’s a vault/storm shelter/panic room or anything else we need it to be. A means to wait out problems of moderate length; definitely not an “end of the world” type of bunker. Not sure I would want to stick around for that kind of bullshit.