On Oct 25, 1:51 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
A neighbor added an outlet on the first floor stair landing for a fish
tank. The wall in question is the wall between the house and the
attached garage.

Since this wall sits on top of the block foundation wall and there is
a bunch of ductwork in the basement just below it, he wasn't able to
(easily) fish the wire up through the wall, so here's what he did:

In the upper front corner of the basement was an existing hole through
which ran the wires to the outlets in the garage, the doorbell wires,
etc. He ran a length of Romex thorugh this hole into the garage, then
into a 6' strip of wiremold attached to the garage wall and came back
into the house through a hole drilled in the garage wall opposite from
where outlet was installed.

All the other Romex in the garage is exposed; he just felt that he
should protect this length of Romex because it runs horizontally
across the only finished wall in the garage, about 4 feet off the
slab, and looked very vulnerable.

Maybe it's legal, but in terms "workmanship-like manner" it looks
pretty iffy.

Your thoughts?

Around here all Romex is bad unless it's an UF application. I'm
continually cringed by Romex posts in general because it's so foreign
here and seems dangerous any way you use it.