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Dan Lanciani

In article , (Joe) writes:
| On Aug 5, 5:58=A0pm, rangerssuck wrote:
| I'm doing some work in my (unfinished, never going to be finished)
| basement. I have to run some new wiring about 2 feet across a concrete
| block wall. There is one 6-3 cable and 4 12-3 cables. Is it
| permissible to fasten the 6-3 cable to the wall and then tie-wrap the
| other cables to it? If not, can I screw anchors into the wall and tie
| wrap the whole bundle to the anchors?
|
| Is there a better way to do this?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Might do it neatly...plastic junction box #1 mounted on concrete with
| cables input to it. Plastic conduit(s) to junction box #2 mounted on
| wall. Regular wire coupling the two together. No code problems, no
| appearance problem (inspectors can be real twits sometimes) and
| quickly done. The downside, a few buck$ more than a pine board or some
| such.

Does surface-mount PVC conduit like this have to be schedule 80?

Dan Lanciani
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