Legal to have outlet in basement stairway? House built 2000.

[Robert Gift]

From an outlet in her little office, wife tacked an extension cord along the baseboad under her office door and around under the basement door into the basement stairway.
It powered two vacuums on their wall-hanging battery chargers. (Vacuums easily quickly accessed and out of the way in he stairway.)

From her office outlet I managed to get 14-2/gnd cable through the unfinished basement ceiling to an outlet I screwed into the double stud at the basement door. Stairway is dryvalled.
Works perfectly, but am I violating any electrical codes?

Thank you.

 

[bigb56]

If the receptacle is in a box with a wall plate, and the Romex is protected "where subject to damage" I don't see a problem.

 

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[Afjes]

I'm not quite seeing the layout you describe.
But as bigb56 states the receptacle must be in a box with a wall plate and if Romex is not within a wall but on a wall/baseboard it may then be considered "subject to physical damage". Meaning it is possible that the exposed Romex may be damaged physically by something hitting it, something being dropped on it etc. Romex outer sheathing is not meant to protect the wires inside, that's what they make MC and conduit for.

If you draw this out as in a diagram we may be able to come up with a better safer solution to what you have done. So far from what you described I can not tell is this setup is to code or not.