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The basement is under the kitchen island and it is only about 10 feet to the breaker box. I could easily leave a wire run coming out of the floor where the island is going to be and terminating in a loose box. One thing I found is that you can't have any upward facing boxes in a kitchen due to...

I have my rough wiring inspection on Monday but still haven't gotten an answer from my town about how they want me to handle the rough wiring for a kitchen island that doesn't physically exist yet. Does anybody have any ideas? the only one I can think of is to run a wire back to the box...

Well I just got back in contact with the zoning dept and its not quite as bad as it first seemed. I can have it inspected at the end of next week so Im fine.

I unfortunately live in RI which now has tens of thousands of flooded houses (mine NOT being one of them) and am ready for my rough wiring inspection but was requested by the town to not request one yet as they are backlogged trying to inspect drained houses for turning on power. The question...

The lights themselves should be well out of the way and probably wouldn't fit between the joists anyway. Cool, guess I will need to mark and drill.

I just went to figure out placement of the first of the Lithonia 4' light and found that the precut mounting holes don't align with my beams. Can I drill through the housing of the light to make new mounting holes?

The wood should already be kiln dried since it would be furniture grade so hopefully that won't happen.

That is what I kind of thought. It would take a much higher temp to char or discolor wood.

True. My existing copper is right up against my floor joists in numerous locations and the joists look fine so I guess a section of baseboard won't cause any problems.

In the addition I am working on there is a 8x8 sunroom with windows at the end that I want to put a wide bench under (approx 96Wx36Dx30H) and then mount a section of baseboard to the front of it. Will the baseboard damage oak or ash?

That's great to hear. I will make sure that the network cable is run well away from fluorescent lights and the coax is quad shielded so hopefully that will help somewhat.

The speaker cable is CL-2 in wall rated 14 gauge twisted pair. This is specific http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10239&cs_id=1023902&p_id=2821&seq=1&format=2. Im going to make the separation as great as possible but I doubt I will get 12" away without ripping out...

I probably could get enough slack to do one but would prefer not having a box in the ceiling. I think I should be able to pull the cable through since the other side of the wall is mostly open. Does anybody know if there is something I could use as shielding for speaker cable that is near this...

Yes I did and they will all be homeruns to a point in the basement. I am also going to pull a new run of NM through to replace the nicked NM. I am hoping I won't have to pull the entire ceiling out to do it since it may run between outlets that are on either side of the hole.

That is my plan. I actually have a route through the ceiling that avoids all of the 110v wires to get to each speaker location. Its a bit roundabout for one of the speakers but workable. My biggest issue will be network and coax running between floors. There isn't any kind of an easy path...

I kind of assumed I should swap it out. I guess I need to rip that ceiling fully open and do it the right way. I think I know what is at either end of that cable and wanted to reroute it anyway due to routing speaker wire near it.

Would the electrical taping of the hot and neutral wires then electrical taping the whole section be enough of a repair or must I replace the length of 14/2?

Ahh, ok. SO I guess I should say I wanted to get the high-low voltage done before running the low-low voltage :) Hey, in that case then does the rule of keeping CAT-6 at least 6" away from 14/2 not apply since they are both technically "low voltage"?

What I am considering "low voltage is: Speaker wire network telephone cable tv I wanted to get the high voltage out of the way so that I would know where to route the low voltage around it.

So I was hoping to finish the high voltage wiring on the 1st floor of my addition and get at least 1/2 way through the low voltage wiring over the weekend. Saturday I finish the high voltage on the 1st floor and start unpacking stuff for the low voltage along with some cleanup. I drill for...