Romex - Crawl space or Attic?

[ddawg16]

Starting to plan how I'm going to do some of the wiring on my 2-story addition....

Right now I pretty much have the back wall striped off....bare studs and drywall....which leaves the outlets and romex exposed. When they wired the house in 1952 they ran the Romex from box to box via the attic.

I am going to replace the old 2 wire romex with 12/2 on some of outlets...especially bedrooms....and add some additional ones.

I seems that going through the attic wastes a lot of Romex....any reason I can't do it in the crawl space?

 

[Norcal]

Starting to plan how I'm going to do some of the wiring on my 2-story addition....

Right now I pretty much have the back wall striped off....bare studs and drywall....which leaves the outlets and romex exposed. When they wired the house in 1952 they ran the Romex from box to box via the attic.

I am going to replace the old 2 wire romex with 12/2 on some of outlets...especially bedrooms....and add some additional ones.

I seems that going through the attic wastes a lot of Romex....any reason I can't do it in the crawl space?

Other then having to drill holes in the floor joists, no. Remember that any additional outlets you add in the existing stucture will to have snake oil (AFCI's) added, other then where GFCI's are required....................

 

[Milton Shaw]

And every outlet is going to have to be tamper resistant according to current codes. Had a neighbor whose new garage to pass inspection had to have tamper resistant everywhere, even in the outlets in the ceiling for openers. Make sure you use a fire resistant foam to seal holes in baseplate/top plate where wires go through. There is a lot of air flow in partially filled holes from wires. I was in a doctors office that had a loose wall plate and it would flap when the front door was opened/closed from air flow in the wall.