Hello. I have framed in my basement, for the most part, and will soon start drilling the holes for electrical. Standard outlets in the rooms. How high, normally, from the base of my frame do I drill my holes through the studs so when my buddy/brother/electrition runs the wires, it will be ready. What size bit 3/4? I am still waiting to get the Electrical Standards/Codes from the city and am anxious to start. Thanks again for all of your help. Pat

First off - thanks to all who helped with my service upgrade and rewiring questions I asked several months ago. All work went with out a hitch and was approved. Now I am in the process of finishing up the rooms, and want to move my workshop out to the garage from the soon-to-be family room. In order to do that, I need to run a sub into the garage. First off - the garage is ~30 feet from the SEP in the basement. I will run the cable out the basement wall, and down into a trench / conduit (thinking schedule 40/80 PVC?). I will bury it 18" and run into the side of the garage. I would like to put in a 60 amp feed. When I went to the BORG, the guy was pretty clueless about the types of wire they sell, and said "8/3 UF was all they had that would work". I figured I needed atleast #6 wire for the sub. Correct? Should I use THWN? Also, currently the garage has 2 UF feeds to it - 1 12/2 feed for a single outlet and overhead light, and a 14/3 line connected to a 3-way switch that controls a spot light on the house. The other 3-way is inside the house. Do I have to remove the existing circuits? Or can they coexist with the new service. Here is what I plan on running in the garage - 5-6 outlets, 3 overhead flourescent lights, 120v/15 amp table saw, plus other woodworking tools. I also want to install a garage door opener. I might want/need to run a window AC unit in the summer and some type of heater in the winter. Is 60A way overkill? TIA, Tony PS - yes, I will pull permits.