I just found this site yesterday and wish I found it long ago... ;) From the looks of the messages and replies, I'm in good company. Here goes... I built a big deck and ran 120V wires from the outside breaker box to some outlets and ceiling fans in and on it. Please comment on the good and the bad below...maybe I can still fix something if there's a problem. -I have the house meter with a small breaker box mounted on the front of my house (it looks like a single unit). I enclosed it with house siding and put a hinged door on the front with a good amount of room around the box. -From this box, I ran a UF #12 from each side of an unused 20A double-throw breaker (I couldn't find any replacements at Home Depot - it's from the early 70's) -...to a pair of blue plastic double gang boxes each with GFCI outlet and regular outlet (after GFCI) screwed (drywall screws on the inside of the box) just below the breaker box onto a 2x4. -From one of these double gangs (after the GFCI), I ran a wire out of the back through a hole in the bottom of the siding enclosure (through 3/4" PVC pipe siliconed in place as a grommet) -and stapled it to the bottom of a joist (~ every 14-16") and winding around supporting piers and from joist to joist in some places. -I have outdoor-rated outlets both outside this covered porch area and inside...all are metal and I grounded them. -I ran wires to pancake boxes mounted to 2x6's for future ceiling fans; I capped the wires and covered the boxes with supplied covers; pancakes are screwed to support with hole drilled in center Any really wrong here? :) Nice comments also accepted. :)

Does anyone know if it is ok (code) to run wire through a wetwall in the basement. I have a sink in a workshop which is between a subpanel and other rooms. The plumbing is decending from the ceiling to the sink. The wires in the wall would run below the copper pipe. Thanks, DW