It is allowed. No special dispensation needed.question for the electrician: in the scenario of this thread, needing to rewire virtually a whole house, could you get a waiver on the requirement to staple the wire near the box, this reducing the amount of drywall ripout needed to rewire the boxes?"???
334.30(B) Unsupported Cables.
Nonmetallic-sheathed cableshall be permitted to be unsupported where the cable:
(1) Is fished between access points through concealed
spaces in finished buildings or structures and supporting
is impracticable.
It is allowed. No special dispensation needed.
If I were to do the job there there would be some j-boxes in the attic. They would be strategically placed and properly sized but, to go from point to point all the way down the stud cavity and back up again would be too much work.You need a top notch electrician. Slapping in some new cables with a bunch of J-boxes in the attic sounds like a recipe for a disaster. Sounds to me like a complete rewire is needed.
Oh, and seeing as how you are into a full rewire, if the basic lighting circuits were wired with 12 ga, definitely do as much of the house in 14 ga as you can, you will be very glad that you did.
great advise ! I was thinking insurance also. Can the poster explain how this came to be? Rental? House broken into, or empty?As an electrical contractor I would deal with the homeowner’s insurance and everyone else would be left in the dark until after the work was completed.
In the event of no homeowner’s insurance then the deal would be struck with the financial intuition the owner would be using to pay for the repair.
At any rate he is looking at a handful of dollars to affect the needed repairs. I am assuming that no one was in the house when this happened therefore the homeowner must be using this as rental property in which case insurance will be involved.
Just curious. Why run 14 instead of 12? We were just doing some work on my mother-in-law's and the sparky told me her town is all 12ga./20amp now.
I was wondering if more jurisdictions was going that route?
This is awkward, but...
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