Hello,
I have a deck on the back of my house. The ground slopes such that if you are under the deck near the house at one end there is about 3 feet from the ground to the deck joists. As you crawl/walk along the edge of the house towards the other end of the deck the ground slopes down until there is maybe 7 or 8 feet of clearance.
I want to add an outside outlet on the edge of the deck away from the house partially so I can plug in stuff like a radio in the summer but more importantly for a low voltage lighting transformer.
There is an outside outlet on the exterior wall of the house above the deck. The path the wire takes is to go down in the wall, and it comes out in the basement and from there I can follow it a good ways. There is an easy spot in the basement where I could drill a hole to get out under the deck, in between two of the deck joists. It would be easy inside to fish some wire up to the junction box that has the existing outlet and tap in there. It would also be easy to add a junction box in the basement to tap in.
My questions then are:
- What is the appropriate way to get through from the basement to outside? Is there a particular sort of box that should be mounted on either side? This would need to be a surface mount box as it is 2x10 on both the exterior side and the interior side. Should some sort of conduit be passed through the hole I drill?
- Once I get the wires outside, do they need to be in some sort of conduit or is it ok to just run UF-B cable under the deck stapled to the side of one of the joists? If I do need conduit, what sort should I use?
My city uses the 2002 NEC code.
Thanks
-Dan
I have a deck on the back of my house. The ground slopes such that if you are under the deck near the house at one end there is about 3 feet from the ground to the deck joists. As you crawl/walk along the edge of the house towards the other end of the deck the ground slopes down until there is maybe 7 or 8 feet of clearance.
I want to add an outside outlet on the edge of the deck away from the house partially so I can plug in stuff like a radio in the summer but more importantly for a low voltage lighting transformer.
There is an outside outlet on the exterior wall of the house above the deck. The path the wire takes is to go down in the wall, and it comes out in the basement and from there I can follow it a good ways. There is an easy spot in the basement where I could drill a hole to get out under the deck, in between two of the deck joists. It would be easy inside to fish some wire up to the junction box that has the existing outlet and tap in there. It would also be easy to add a junction box in the basement to tap in.
My questions then are:
- What is the appropriate way to get through from the basement to outside? Is there a particular sort of box that should be mounted on either side? This would need to be a surface mount box as it is 2x10 on both the exterior side and the interior side. Should some sort of conduit be passed through the hole I drill?
- Once I get the wires outside, do they need to be in some sort of conduit or is it ok to just run UF-B cable under the deck stapled to the side of one of the joists? If I do need conduit, what sort should I use?
My city uses the 2002 NEC code.
Thanks
-Dan