Thread: Outlet spacing
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Percival P. Cassidy Percival P. Cassidy is offline
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Default Outlet spacing

On 02/07/10 01:52 pm, RBM wrote:

Every wall space 2' or larger requires an outlet. There can't be more
than
six feet from any point along a wall to an outlet. Loosely interpreted,
you
need an outlet every 12 feet


What do you (or the Code) mean by "finishing?"

I lined our previously unlined furnace/utility room. One long wall is
almost all floor-to-ceiling shelving; so no place to put an outlet. One
short wall has the water heater so close to it that there's no point in
having an outlet there.

I put six outlets above the workbench. That's four more outlets than there
ever were before.


snip

A room is considered finished, by the way it is used more than by it's
construction. A finished "habitable" room must be wired by different specs
than an unfinished room according to the NEC


So is a utility room/workshop considered to be "habitable?"

Perce