Ralph: Well, today I bit the bullet & moved my range cable to the next bay closer to the panel, as you suggested. Needed an extra 8″ drop on the box so the range plug would go under the rear panel on the range. Got 9″ plus some slack. Really sounds like a winner!!!
Took me 10 hrs and am not finished yet. Had to remove wallboard – just a challenge; dig the cable out of the trough in the IFC’s – another challenge. Got into the overhead, up among the floor trusses & the fun began. We have foamed in place insulation (Polyurethane), and the cable was buried in it, along w/ a cold water line. Since my wrist only bends two directions, had to open up another section between two trusses to get enough room to see & work. Took a mere two hours to excavate the cable. All the while, I was thinking vile thoughts. I told my wife, who was sitting in a kitchen chair, supervising and cheering me up that this job was like Br’er Rabbit & the Tarbaby – once you got it started, there was no going back.
Got the range hooked back up & power applied about 10:30 PM. But, the saga continues: There are three very good reasons, in retrospect why this was the absolute best way to do the job; reasons that even a psychic could not have foreseen. First – where the cable penetrated the sill plate, it also had to penetrate a piece of Aluminum flashing. A gray PVC tube protected the cable. Well, it should have. It was pushed up above the flashing, allowing it to possibly cut the cable. second – the real, licensed electrician I hired to wire in all the outlets cut the insulation on the black wire, exposing the conductor. A piece of shrink tubing fixed that. The outlet box isn’t deep enough. Ol’ Sparky didn’t say anything, he just forced the outlet into it and pushed the bakelite out of its mounting plate when he tightened the screws. I get to fix that tomorrow.
My wife, who groused a bit about all the work I was going through, needlessly, she said, now is very happy I did it. Well, so am I. Wasn’t fun, but it was necessary, and the right way to do it.
We’ll get this house built yet! Taking two tries on a lot of things, however.
Again, thanks (in spite of the curse) fort opening my eyes to an alternative I hadn’t considered.
Don
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