Wrap the ends of the source wires with electrical tape or cap them with wire nuts and bend them out of the way until the new wiring is in place.
Run a new circuit plug in attic.
Rigid conduit with an outside diameter of 3.
The same circuit can supply the entire bathroom outlets plus lighting provided there are no heaters including vent fans with built in heaters and provided the circuit serves only a single bathroom and no other areas.
Otherwise you can connect to an existing circuit if the circuit has enough capacity and the box you re connecting to has enough volume for the additional wires.
It looks like the circuits were added recently too.
With a flashlight examine the attic and locate the path that you will use to run the wire between the two locations.
Familiarize yourself with the footing situation.
They say that the wiring was put in to add a few lights to bedrooms and it was inspected.
Running romex wire for a new circuit running romex on studs and joistsis pretty simple.
Running wires inside rigid conduit to run the wires inside rigid conduit you ll need a hacksaw a pipe bender capable of bending 1 2 in.
I can t afford to have an electrician do the whole thing so my plan was to put a receptacle in the attic near the breaker box above a bedroom and run wire from the receptacle to the floodlights at the end of the garage and an outlet placed near the floodlight inside the attic above the garage.
I took some pictures of the attic wiring at a clients home.
Run wire along side of or through studs to the first outlet or fixture and and then run the next strand of romex to the next outlet or fixture and so on.
The simplest approach may be to run cable up into an attic or down into a basement.
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When extending a circuit for example the electrician may run the cable vertically from an existing outlet box up to the attic or down into the basement across joists to a spot directly above or below the new box location then into that wall cavity to the new electrical box opening.
Climb through the attic access using a ladder if necessary and look into the attic space.
Alternatively there should be a 20 amp circuit for the receptacles only plus a 15 or 20 amp circuit for the lighting.
I want to install some remote controlled security lights for my tenants.
To make a run for a ceiling fixture push an electrician s fish tape through the switch hole and down to the source receptacle.
The wiring is so close to the roof and run along the joists.
Run cable from the first electrical box in the circuit to your breaker panel location as laid out in your circuit diagram.
Learn more in our running electrical wire behind walls project guide.
Do not wire the cable to your breaker panel at this time.
This is in ontario.