I recently installed a patio door which required me to cut the romex feeding one wall of the living room. I had already planned to replace the 15amp ungrounded outlets along that wall, but forgot about the wire going to the dining room light. The wire to the light is not the greatest piece of engineering, as I found out after I had a new roof installed a couple of years ago. The wire runs from the switch, up the wall, through the roof, through a piece of conduit on top of the roof that is covered by the 2″ of added insulation and the built up roofing material, and then down through the roof and through a 4×6 beam to the light fixture. This is a cathedral ceiling which is composed of planks of 3 1/2″x12″x8′ Cellotex or similar fibrous material. There is no way to rerun the electrical without ripping up about eight feet of relatively new roofing. Does the code allow me to tie into the 2 wire, ungrounded 14 ga. feed to the light from my 14 gauge, grounded wiring circuit in the garage (which is on the other side of the wall)?
Any other ideas other than a big Tesla coil and a fluorescent? ;-(
Thanks
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I don't really see it as a code issue. It might be a head scratcher some years down the road if someones trying to troubleshoot that circuit. But sometimes you got to say. "Screw the next guy. I don't want to tear up 8' of new roof."
If I'm reading what you want to do correctly. I don't see a problem with it.
Yeah, I'm certainly not a code lawyer, but it sounds kosher to me.
There are also legal ways to run a cable under the threshold.