Floor receptacle???

DIY4EVER

Hello all!

I am in the middle fo planning my basement finishing project and was wondering if it would be possible to put a receptacle in my floor. The floor is concrete and I would want the receptacle to be flush with the finished floor. It would be to plug in my excercise equipment so I don;t have an ugly cord running across the floor to a wall outlet.

Is it feasible to cut a narrow trench in the floor and run the Romex through some conduit to an outlet that would then be laid in a small whole cut out of the floor so that it lays flush?

Thanks for any advice!!

hbsparky

just for the recepticle box, you are going to need a hole about 6 inches deep, and as for the romex in conduit, can't do it, the outer sheath on the romex is considered a conduit and you can't run conduit in conduit. this is not a diy job.

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Speedy Petey

The fact that this is not true is a subject for a whole 'nother thread.

The fact is NM cable (romex) cannot be used in conduit underground.
NM cable in a conduit system is also considered extremely bad practice.

I would run a 3/4" conduit from the floor box to a nearby partition wall and stub up there. Then run UF cable in that conduit sleeve to the box.

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KUIPORNG

problem is once someone spill a cub of coffee on the ground... there is a easier chance of getting a electrical shock... may be need to build those veritacl bar from ceiling to floor .... to house somthing like ..

zel

They sell outlet boxed made for floor installation and I believe they usually come with a hinged cover and are raised up slightly so water wont run into them.

I am actually putting one in the floor of our bedroom, because the wall that used to house the outlet, now has the 2 pocket doors converging on the one remaining normal 2x4" stud thats left inside the wall. No room for the outlet there.

joed

You must use a floor rated box.

NateHanson

There are flip-up floor boxes that are gasketed and pre-wired with
a GFCI receptacle. Probably wise (and I'd think it's code to) to use GFCI in a basement floor. There are also single outlet floor boxes that are only about 2". That would be much easier to drill a hole for, than a big 4 or 5" standard floor box. You could feed it in-line from a wall GFCI outlet, to provide the protection.

Why wouldn't you consider this a diy job? Seems no different than any underground wiring. You probably want to rent a saw to do the concrete cutting, but other than that it seems pretty accesible to a fairly capable amateur electrician who's careful to think about the code requirements for the situation.