Hello everyone. Electricity in a wooden house is a sore subject. I wonder if anyone has done this work taking into account all the requirements of the Electrical Installation Code and other regulatory documents? I have never met anyone like that in my entire practice.
I am considering the work on one of these orders – I have not known for three days how to do it better. The house is made of wood, channels for cables are drilled in the wall. how to lay the cable? According to the rules, it seems like a steel pipe, but they will definitely not agree to this. Or rather, they do not even consider it.
But even if you do the electrics in a wooden house in steel pipes, you will need metal distribution boxes and mounting boxes for sockets and switches. There is nothing really on sale. And even if there was, I wonder how such a system would behave taking into account the “shrinkage” of the house?
Electricity in a wooden house in a metal sleeve in a PVC sheath is also not a solution. Yes, many do it this way, but does it make sense? The metal sleeve protects against mechanical damage, it was not invented for wiring in wooden houses.
The only thing left is the regular corrugated pipe … but there’s a “gotcha” here too. Part of the wiring will be in the floor screed – so a HDPE pipe is needed, since the grey corrugated pipe won’t “reach” the screed (you can’t walk on it, but everyone who wants to will definitely do so). At the same time, the black HDPE pipe can’t be inserted into the electrical wiring channels in the walls.
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Electricity in a wooden house according to the project
Not only is it not always clear which route to lay the cable, but there are also questions about how to do it all safely. In general, only problems. Although I had one similar object with an electrical project. So, according to the project, part of the wiring is in a screw in a black HDPE pipe. From the floor, the cable in the same corrugated pipe is fed into the wooden walls (into channels). To the sockets, the cable is 3×2.5 and a 20A machine. For light, 1.5 and a 16A machine. I asked the designer why exactly. The answer is … because. Everything is calculated, everything is according to the rules, there are no errors in the project.
The most surprising thing in such objects is the amount of electricity (lighting, sockets, switches). Previously, at least a little thought was given to the fact that the house was wooden, that the electricity in a wooden house should be simpler. Now they make design projects, like in apartments – sockets on every corner, dozens of switches, various backlights for everything and anything, sconces, chandeliers. And all this is naturally hidden, in the timber or logs. What are people thinking?
