What Should You Plan for When Wiring a Detached Garage? - Part 2
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Are you wiring a detached (or attached) garage to accommodate an electric car charging station? You may want to check out this video.
Keep in mind that this video was taken in April of 2019. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
It's clear from these videos that you're very thoughtful about your customers' needs.
Totally agreed with you on having the multiple circuits. Definitely avoids an overloading situation. Thanks for a great presentation. A lot of good pointers.
Mad respect for your knowledge I love how you thought about every scenario and you have explanations for everything! You should be an instructor you got your codes locked !!!
Love these videos! Thank you for taking the time to make very clear informational videos like these! Clean work
Thanks for watching.
Perfect honest professional opinion and for the most part clean spoken. Upgrade your production Quality a bit you'll have yourself a hit show. Thank you.
Great description, ideas !!! Dream electrical there. Codes are really restrictive, but this was done well. Idk why a detached garage on new build, but I'm sure they are loving it.
Thank u for sharing ur knowledge. Ur very good at what u do. I appreciate u taking the time to make the video.
Much love man.... Good vid
I love the "Code-talk". As a regulatory compliance professional, he's talking my language 😀.
Suggestion to prewire electric (and maybe a cat5 for sensors/button) for garage door operators for installation as jackshaft operator on opening wall and or standard overhead back hang motor. Good video thanks for sharing.
I only wish you were in PA so I could hire you. You obviously take a ton of pride in your work and look out for the future of the customers usage.
You are the best man! Love the vids
I'm surprise you're not running an ethernet cable to the detached garage. I just ran one 2 weeks ago. It was a pain to go under 2 concrete walkways, but I'm glad to have the wire. I added an access point in the garage to improve WiFi signals for my WiFi-based smart switches, garage door openers, and cars parked inside the garage or driveway. Next up are POE cameras.
Always love your videos. Very informative.
Well spoken. Thank you.
Watching you seems like another day on the job. I do this all day, projects are never the same and when a new wire comes around I wire it with pride. Yikes on the interested ground and homeline panel. Last time I ordered a homeline customer wanted it cheap as possible and they were out of QO.
Fantastic video. Nice to observe a true professional instead of some TH-cam hack. Thanks a million. Pete in Montana
I saw this and thought it would be something beneficial as I plan out my electric for a new building that will go up in May/June 2022. I was wrong. This was way over my head. I have a drawing with all my woodshop tools and the type of power needed to service them. I didn't consider external lights at the garage or walk-in doors. After watching this, I am wondering if I am ready to tackle something of this magnitude. 25 overhead lights, running off five circuits. 7ea 240V/50amp receptacles each on its own circuit, 6ea 240V 30amp receptacles on their own circuit and 29ea 120V 20 amp receptacles or which there will be three duplex and the rest singles. I need someone to draw this out for me and I am willing to pay. Thanks for the video. Back to the drawing board.
Great video. You use CAFCI (or dual function) breakers in garage? No problems with power tools tripping the AFCI?
Thanks for taking your time and posting these videos , even though there’s always fucking haters. Good job 👍
Bottom line is never add power to an outbuilding unless it's a #6 feed or larger. You don't have to use it all, but one day someone will be glad you did. Of course, once you go that big it's only a few bucks more to do a full 100 amp panel.
Thank you.
great info, I thought if you had exsposed studs your wiring had to be in steel conduit, soming I thought I had to do to my 40 year old garage to bring it up to code
The ground or bond should go back to the main panel in the house. You only want one point of grounding. The second point of grounding adds a second potential. I don't know which year NEC book you are using but as a utility we only accept a single point of earth grounding. It is much safer.
Good info! Question: @ 10:42 slip conduit. It is clamped to the building below the slip joint. Confused on this ?? Would you not want to clamp to building on the above non-moving conduit and you would want that secured? Or is the clamp just loose so it does not matter? Thanks!
Bro. How the hell do you even plan all this? I need to know. I feel like such an idiot with the little jobs I get compared to this lol. Great work man.
Some jurisdictions in my area still allow a 3 wire sub panel. In addition to bonding. Can't see why it's a bad method. You have 3 wires coming into the house. Also, they also allow in instances a overhead drop with UF cable. All agree the sub panel can't be main lug, must have a main. However i've been having lots of trouble finding a main breaker hold down, so inspector suggest I get a hundred amp main breaker panel, and just use the main as a disconnect, regardless of what I feed it with. 30, 40, 60 ETC.
this is safer with four wires, the Grounding conductors are established at each structure with electrodes, and without the forth wire, you could be the potential to a wild leg or fault.
Is there a video on the finished results?
Hi Joshua, I have a old detached garage with cloth wiring, metal boxes and open studs. I was planning to update it but still keep the garage with open studs. Currently, the cloth wiring is running through the studs at knee level. I had an electrician mention that the wiring can't be left at the height it is now. I've been looking through NEC but I can't find anything on it. have you heard anything about this? I tried checking with the city inspectors but they never call back.
I'm building a 14x24 detached garage/shed that is about 30 feet from my house. I'm not planning on running any welders or multiple power tools simultaneously. This won't be a big work shop or anything. Do I need to pull a whole new electrical circuit or can I extend power underground from my house. If I extend, can I go with a 20amp or should I do something bigger. My home has 200amp service.
Great help with Fire Department regulation here in Ohio.
Got 5 minutes into the video and was like..."yeah I think I'm going to hire an electrician".
Ok, rookie question, so hopefully you can help me. I ran 2” conduit up to a sub panel that surprisingly doesn’t have a 2” cutout (I’m assuming it’s 1 1/2?). I figured I’d just pick up a reducer bushing, but I’m finding this to be easier said than done. Is it allowed to use a white PVC reducer bushing to make this transition?
Depends on jurisdiction right? Maybe easier to create the 2" cutout.. Seeing this is older comment. but oh well.
Dang.. A 50 amp microwave lol must annihilate the food.
I was wondering what kind of cost a garage costs w an evo car for detached. recently got a quote of $4500 to wire my entire 2 car garage without the evo car connection, just basic set up... but I didn't know if that's a good price, wish I could do it Myself.
Love the video!!!,,
Do I have to have dedicated circuit for garage door opener ?
depends, alot of times on the jobs i do, yes they are on dedicated circuits
No you don’t
Question will arc fault interrupter be problematic on a welder circuit.
It is nice doing a job the way U would do ur own project
Nice when a customer is not always worried about $$$$$$, and they want it done ONCE with all the fixings.
Perfect vid for my new detached garage. At ~9 min you mention floating your ground and neutral. Can you please explain that? Many Thanks.
Seperate your neutrals and grounds in a sub panel is what he means. Have seperate grounding lugs from your neutral
Dont put both under the same lug
your work is great. the guy who nailed the osb sheathing for the garage walls really missed the 2x6 studs. sheesh, no wonder you used ent. i dont blame you. woohoo.
THANKS. I am usually scared of builders coming back and not getting all their fire blocking and framing completed, then they want to RUSH you to GET IN THERE! Nails are DEADLY TO NM CABLES> Wish I could ENT whole houses. If I EVERY get the pleasure and $$$$$$ I will wire my house in EMT and ENT pipe. Screw NM cables, they are stored future food for mice and rats to breed in walls. Sadly, if I bid all jobs with anything other than NM cables or ROMEX, I will bid my self out of the jobs. Somewhere YEARS ago most AHJ in CO allowed NM. They still allow this for any APARTMENT or Hotels that are under 3 stories. LOL!!!!!
I set 6 mouse traps outside my home and put new cheese in them every month to keep them from coming in my home.
Hey Joshua. I'm in California. Would you recommend the 2020 or stick with the 2017 NFPA NEC book? Thank you!
You have to use the 2020 code book. Some states aren't using all the new code but u should go off of the newest code always.
Wait... at 10:22 you’re sharing the GFCI with a load on the back side going to other outdoor outlets. Don’t you want to run separate home runs per outdoor GFCI?
No, my lighting was separate from all my plugs, and my plugs have """" 3 """"" circuits to the inside and out. PLENTY of JUICE>
Fast forward a 125 ft roll of 6/3 here is now close $600.00 bucks don't know about out there. Our last customer said the wire cost more her than her stove did. People are still going forward with their projects tho sure hope the prices come back down soon but I can't see it happening in the near future. Oh ya the new code here is talking about arc faulting EVERYTHING in the home now. Cant imagine what a 50 amp arc fault will cost for the stove.
I agree but dumb idea my opinion
Were is the 60 amp disconnect? (230.79D) as shown in your last video? Did I miss it?
never mind, watched the video again.
The electrician is trying to talk me into a 200A main service panel upgrade just because I want to run 2224 service wire to my garage from my house on a 100A service, what's wrong with a bit of overkill? two 100A breakers one in the house one in the garage and 2224 service wire buried in gray pvc between the house and garage 2' 6" down, 80 foot run
Because it be cheaper and better to set a 200amp and then come off it with a 100 amp panel
Is a subpanel required in he garage?
Is it legal to pull in romex into smurf tube when it goes from box to box ?
I thought that you can only pull in single conductor in conduit when it goes from box to box ?
NM is rated for INDOOR only. ENT pipe as well. As long as you watch your conductor fill and conduit volume fill. Per articles 310.15 and chapter 8 table 9 (i think) that speaks about ONE CABLE in a conduit vs Many Cables.
In exposed work The nm cable must be protected from physical damage.... In this case he is protecting the nm cable for everything he could think of!! Nec 334.15
Never saw anyone ever actually use that ENT conduit....I always wondered if I'd ever see it LOL
I’m trying to do mine 240v with a 70 amp breaker. I’m planning on installing a sub-panel in my garage
You are Hire!!!!!
Add A 220 Volt Outlet Inside The Garage For Some Power Tools or A Electric Car in the near Future
A Cat 5E Wire or Cat 6 Wire For Internet...
Why the blue tubing? I'm not familiar with it.
What is the reason for the smurf tube going to the outside gfi?
Because the NM wire is below 8' and it makes a loop in the wall. They have young kids, they want to raise their kids in this home and most HO have a lot of crap stored, so I decided to protect what looked like nicking on or around the walls.
What if the basement dryer outlet, below ground, is flooded?
GFCI protect 30 amp - 2 pole
use a raft to check voltage! LOL. I would Gfci a dryer if there is concerns.
so many changes ...we humans still not master the electricity of understanding..it seems to me, electrician just learning as they go while updating the code..its screwing to me, when changes from 2005..3 wire and ground rod with isolated neutral bar for subpanel...now 2010...4 wires is require to make breaker fault complete due to 3 wire ...2nd ground rod alone on detached garage is not enough to make complete fault ..then you saying 2020 another change ..outlets have to be gcfi for dryer...
Can't heat if it's not finished. Well when the city starts paying my utility bills I might consider not heating my shop I work in 365 days of the year 😂.
Sounds like Ted Nugent. I think he is his son.
I don’t get get your neutral comment a shared neutral only carries your unbalanced load.