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Hello -
Before I start, I want to say I'm trying to make this right, so please consider that before making any comments on how poor this was done. I wouldn't be asking for advice if I didn't care enough to correct the issue in the first place.
That being said, a while back I decided to add recessed lighting in our 1st floor office. I'm generally pretty handy and know a lot of basic codes (mostly from doing a lot of electrical reading on here and other forums over the years), but when doing this project I ran into an issue fishing wire.
I ran a total of 6 boxes, each secured to old-work light boxes and daisy-chained together. My last box was supposed to run down to the wall through the top plate and into an existing gang box which had a switch and incoming power.
When I fed the wire through the first joist and down the adjacent joist cavity, I ran into an issue of a double-wide engineered joist sitting on the wall top plate that I had planned run the wire down.
Not knowing what to do and in a pinch because of the holidays, I temporarily fed that portion of romex through 3' of armored cable and cut the corner behind the exiting crown molding.
Now that I have a little extra time i'd like to take it back apart and try to wire this correctly - however running down the top plate appears to be out of the picture and i'm not sure how to proceed.
I did a lot of reading and it appears armored cable is not suitable for behind crown and i'm looking for additional options.
Before I start, I want to say I'm trying to make this right, so please consider that before making any comments on how poor this was done. I wouldn't be asking for advice if I didn't care enough to correct the issue in the first place.
That being said, a while back I decided to add recessed lighting in our 1st floor office. I'm generally pretty handy and know a lot of basic codes (mostly from doing a lot of electrical reading on here and other forums over the years), but when doing this project I ran into an issue fishing wire.
I ran a total of 6 boxes, each secured to old-work light boxes and daisy-chained together. My last box was supposed to run down to the wall through the top plate and into an existing gang box which had a switch and incoming power.
When I fed the wire through the first joist and down the adjacent joist cavity, I ran into an issue of a double-wide engineered joist sitting on the wall top plate that I had planned run the wire down.
Not knowing what to do and in a pinch because of the holidays, I temporarily fed that portion of romex through 3' of armored cable and cut the corner behind the exiting crown molding.
Now that I have a little extra time i'd like to take it back apart and try to wire this correctly - however running down the top plate appears to be out of the picture and i'm not sure how to proceed.
I did a lot of reading and it appears armored cable is not suitable for behind crown and i'm looking for additional options.
