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9 ft ceiling.

I'm putting pole barn metal on my ceiling and I need to plan my attic access. What is the best way to frame and finish attic access thru a metal ceiling. 4 ft between trusses. I'm having trouble getting good results from my searches. Thanks

Sorry I’ve been away. It is interior ceiling. Going to put single gang boxes for lights and garage door opener.

I'm doing a metal ceiling in my pole barn garage. I've read a few threads about how to locate the cutout for the electrical outlet boxes. Why not use old work boxes with the wings so you don't have to be exact with the location of your cut outs? Anything wrong with that. Is it cheating?

Thanks for the answer. I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing something. I had read something about the metal siding being attached in the grounding but I think that was in a barn with livestock (it may have been a metal framed barn). I don't want to confuse my question with that because...

Title says it all. This is a wooden framed pole barn. I have a 100 amp subpanel in the barn and have added a separate ground buss bar and have removed the green bonding screw. I can't find any good instructions for how to properly run the bare ground from my ground bar in the panel to my...

I'm going to try to sum up what I've learned in this thread. 1- Fiber optic cable instead of cat5/6 should probably be used between buildings for protection against lighting or electrical surges between the two which can damage to equipment. 2- Fiber optic needs a converter on each end to...

I may have the wrong idea about them in my mind but I was thinking a termination box would be where you switch from fiber optic to cat5 or 6 and then inside the house/garage. Now that I think about it it has to transition from fiber to cat5/6 at the converter. Not sure what a termination box...

PM sent with some questions but I thought of another. Do I enter the house and garage with an LB or should I use a termination box something like this? https://fibertronics.com/4-adapter-slot-4-splice-termination-box-2-ports

Slimpickins, the cable you linked looks like it couldn't go into conduit underground because I saw some indoor/outdoor cable on the same amazon page. Also, what's the difference between OM1, OM3, OM4, and all the different colors? What diameter conduit do you need for the ends to pass through...

I'm probably going to use direct burial shielded cat5 or 6. I'm putting it in conduit just for protection from shovels and such. Need to find some direct burial shielded cable. I didn't even consider fiber. Sounds like it might be a little more complicated. Just going to be a few cameras...

I'm running power underground to my garage. The power lines are 18 inches down in conduit and the ethernet line is going in the same trench only about 3-4 inches down in pvc conduit. The only way I know of to separate the lines coming out of the ground is to 45 the ethernet over right before I...

I don't see why it couldn't be done. Just have to find the right box. I guess they make a 60 amp box for 4 wires??

I'm going to price the polaris type connectors, they look very simple to install. The split bolt have been around forever but all the taping looks like something a plugger would do. Please don't pile on, I know it's perfectly acceptable when done correctly. They will be in a junction box and...

I am going from the LB on the pole barn directly into the back of the box in the pole barn. I talked to a electrician today and, like you,he told me to use SER in the crawl space and into the house panel. The transition from MHF to SER is not quite clear. I thought there would be a junction box...