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My electrician did a very neat and professional job installing PVC conduit for our rooftop solar system. There are expansion couplings everywhere. I'd like to paint the conduit to match the house color. Is there a special trick for painting these? I imagine you'd end up with either a gray gap in...

Hi. I live in Boston, MA where the frost line is about 36 inches. I am trying to run 2 inch PVC conduit to my detached garage to run wiring for a 100amp sub panel: My main panel is in the front of my house which is approximately 50 feet to my garage entry point which is towards the back of the...

Hi - Is there a minimum depth for schedule 40 electrical conduit ? I can't seem to find anything online. I'm trying to figure out whether I need to rent a trencher or simply dig. Any comments would be appreciated, Thank you

Hi Everyone - I'm planning to run some electric into my backyard. I'm running two circuits and want to avoid drilling two holes through my brick exterior wall. Is there a conduit box that would accept two wires ? I'm guessing that the attached image is not acceptable ? I haven't seen...

Hi all, I'm adding a 100amp subpanel in my attached garage. To avoid going the long way through the second-story attic, I'm planning to run the line across the front yard, buried 18" in Sch40. The resulting conduit path starting from the main panel is: down 5' sweep 90* to horizontal run 9'...

Hello – I need to run electric into my backyard and I have a few questions about running it though my exterior wall. I know exactly where I need to drill in order to get to my panel. I’m running 10/2 UF and plan to encase it in conduit outside of the house – I have not determined the conduit...

any help is appreciated. as you can see, my main panel is pretty recessed into the stucco wall. I need to be able to run my PVC gray conduit into it to carry power out to my shed though. I am thinking I need to go straight into the wall and then up through the bottom of the panel within the...

Been trying to figure out how to handle this which I originally was going to fish it but there is limited space in the ceiling because of strapping so I'm thinking of a plan B which is running conduit and then boxing it in to blend it in a little better. I have 2-2-2-6 AL coming in from outside...

I want to purchase a few LED shop lights for the garage. The light I want to order can be seen in the video below and the ip65 cable gland where your wiring enters the light can be seen at 2:07 into the video (screen capture attached for convienence): I've found several YouTube videos where...

Hey everyone, New to the forum, but not to DIY. Pretty handy with most things (cars, general carpentry, DIY around the house, etc), but not afraid to ask for help when I need it and for this project wanted to consult some of the experts so I get it right the first time since it'll be a pain to...

I'm looking into replacing about 250 feet of THHN wire thats been buried in PVC conduit for 20ish years. Wanting to do this in order to upsize the wire and make the circuit a higher amperage. I've done the conduit fill calcs and I'm within the limits if I upsize. What is the best way to do...

Hi there, Is there anything wrong with having 2 220v circuits in the same conduit going in different directions? I have a conduit currently serving a well pump, and I'd like to use the same conduit to run a generator feed up to a main house panel. The conduit is big enough for the additional...

This is a little long but bear with me: I live on a barrier island where all houses are built on pilings. Most, including mine have the area underneath the house filled in with a concrete pad a few inches thick so it can serve as either a car port or a garage. Mine is one of those where the...

Hello I have a question.I have a problem with some neon lights that worked previously.The transformer light blinks and shows it has a secondary fault i think.I am trying to trouble shoot it and cant figure it out as i have basic knowledge.I replaced the transformer and the same problem.I removed...

I added an outlet box and an additional light fixture in my attic. I already know that I should have made the last conduit longer so I could staple it to the rafters <6" from each box. Soon I will relocate it to allow for the staples. Apart from that, is there an NEC issue with mounting...

For context, I'm working on installing a transfer switch, and re-routing some on-wall conduit to be more in-wall than it was before. This conduit contains 3 #8 THHN wires. This is the red line in the image below. The section in question here is the 90 degree turn below the "future transfer...

How should conduit (PVC in this particular case) terminate at or above a drywalled ceiling? Specific case is a surface-mounted subpanel in an attached garage. Would it just be a hole in the ceiling drywall, through which the conduit passes and then simply ends with the wire coming out?

I'm getting ready to install a transfer switch next to my main panel, but in order to install it I need to move some on-wall conduit out of the way. Here's what the space looks like now, with the prior conduit positions shown: And here's what I want it to look like: The conduit will...

When installing wire in a short section of pvc conduit above ground (like to an outside sub-panel with UF wire) is it permissible to strip the wire's sheathing back the same length as the conduit and then install it? Or is this not advisable since the ground wire would be exposed/unprotected...

Please send me the link of a coupling or reducer that can join the two conduit types. I could not find them at Homedepot or Lowes.