Thread: Need electrician advice

I'm doing a remodel on my guest house and I was wondering how many bends can I put on a length of conduit before I have to install a box ? Any help would be greatly appreciated and srry if this is the wrong forum.

360 degrees

Typically you shouldn't put more than 270d. Any more than that you will find it hard to pull the wire. 360d would be the maximum.

http://www.lanshack.com/DesigningConduitRuns.aspx

In honor of BIG JOE and his usual pictorial response:

I wouldn't suggest beyond 270 either, as there really are very few excuses for it (oops just thought of a few scenarios, nevermind). OK, not over 360, that would get silly. There is always cable pulling lube (sounds kinky, but it is real):

http://ideal.datacomtools.com/images/31-388.jpg
(will try and fix the link in the morning)

Awesome ! thanks all ! Now I can finish my deathra......I mean guest house.

Originally Posted by KickEm

I wouldn't suggest beyond 270 either, as there really are very few excuses for it (oops just thought of a few scenarios, nevermind). OK, not over 360, that would get silly. There is always cable pulling lube (sounds kinky, but it is real):

http://ideal.datacomtools.com/images/31-388.jpg
(will try and fix the link in the morning)

360 is way to much to pull wire, you want to have a J-box in a few locations anyway in case you want to add outlets / switches.

cable pulling lube is also called gorilla snot, makes it much less kinky sounding. that s*** is messy.

Whatever you do make sure it is permited when you resell your house it could really hurt you. W used an electrician for our remodel, and He loves the kings gave him some extra tickets I could not make it. The company he works for is Branover Contractors We got several bids and they were the lowest.

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