2010-01-13 getting started with the electrical wiring

Of course plumbing and electrical have to be installed before anything else.  There's no plumbing to install so, for the electrical service, all I needed was a buried wire from the breaker box in the house.  For the run outside we installed a large conduit.


My son-in-law and an electrician friend from church buried the cable and conduit for me.


The service inside the storage building terminated in a 60 amp breaker panel.,


I bought a roll of 12-2-G Romex, some light fixtures, outlets, switches, and boxes, and got to work.
Only a building permit was needed.  The cost was reasonable.  An electrical permit wasn't necessary for an unoccupied storage building according to the building inspector but I got one anyway.  It didn't cost anything.


It took me a few weeks to finish the job because I was always either being interupted by more pressing matters or running out of energy.  I hate getting old but I have to accept that things take longer to complete nowadays.


I'm not sure why Linda took this shot.  Maybe she just wanted to see how goofy I looked with my mouth open???

I didn't take a photo of what the place looked like after the wiring was done and before anything else but you can see the result in the following pages.


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