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Default Boat house wiring

On Aug 8, 12:37 pm, "Paul" wrote:
The plan is to run a single 20A (heck it could be 15A) circuit out to a boat
house on a fresh water lake up in the northern part of Michigan. The only
load in the boat house will be an exterior light and a GFI outlet for the
occassional power tool if needed. I figure on burying 10ga UF cable approx
2 feet deep for the 100ft run to the boat house.

Once inside the boat house, I was thinking of running BX up the exposed
studs and over to the light switch and then on to the light fixture.
Should I be concerned with any issues with corrosion with aluminum clad
armored cable? I guess the alternative could be to continue the UF cable
run inside the building stapled to the studs? Wasn't sure if critters might
try and eat an exposed UF cable.

Since people in the boat house are coming and going to the beach (i.e., wet
feet and hands), should I use a waterproof light switch even though it's
technically "indoors" ?

TIA

-- Paul


If your going to go through the sheer hell of digging a 100 foot by 2
foot trench, I would run something heavier than 10GA. Maybe #8x4 wire
at the very least for all that digging effort, and a small 4 breaker
sub-panel where you can GFCI the whole building at once or have a
locking cutoff. Just in case you want to run more circuits later or
maybe a mercury vapor security light, etc. For that matter I'd
probably drop in cable TV and a phone line too, I just hate digging