[JDunn82]

Sorry for my first post being this. But looking for some feedback.

My family and I are buying a house that is being renovated. The person doing so offered to run Cat6 through the house for me as I work from home doing tech support and so on. When he ran the Cat6 to the second floor it was ran in the same conduit as the electrical sub feed for the breaker panel for the second floor. the cat 6 is unshielded cable. What kind of issues (if any) am I going to run into with the downstairs cat6 feeds ran like that?

 

[danpik]

Cat 5/6 does not have a voltage rating sufficient to be in conduit with high voltage cables. Also it would be interesting to see how he entered and exited the conduit as both open ends will be inside the boxes

 

[ddawg16]

As Dan said....can't do it. Shielded or not, it can't be in there.

Yea, I'd like to see how he got it into that conduit as well.

It can be in the same wall cavity....just not in the conduit.

 

[Speedy Petey]

It's probably just a sleeve to the attic, not an actual conduit run box-to-box.

 

[JDunn82]

I am not a electrician so pardon my ignorance on my terms here. But from what was explained to me when he was doing the wiring there is the main breaker box in the basement then there is a subfeed on the second floor (this is where the cat6 is located as well) the electrical panel on second floor as breakers for everything on second floor.

Thank you everyone for the feedback so far so I may pass this back to him.

 

[joed]

Ask for the inspection report from the AHJ.

 

[Jim Port]

A sleeve is open on both end until any draftstopping was applied. A conduit goes between junction boxes.