Running Conduit Help

[DEEDDUDE]

Need help with runing conduit, either the metal or PVC type, in a steel building. For those of you who haven't been following my build thread I just completed the erection of a 40 x 80 x 18 Mueller building. I will leave the purlins exposed. The help I need is in the form of pictures just to get ideas on how some of you guys might have ran your exposed conduit and attached it to either the columns or purlins. I've got a plan in my head, but some of you guys probably have a better plan already installed. Just need some ideas. Thanks for the help.

 

['04 Cummins]

I have usually made horizontal runs of conduit laid in the purlins hidden from view. On columns and vertical runs on the purlins, either beam clamps and minerallacs for single pipes or beam clamps with strut and strut straps for multiple pipes in a rack.

 

[DEEDDUDE]

Thanks 04' cummins. I've found very few pictures. Still searching, Thanks again.

 

['04 Cummins]

Yeah, I couldn't find any pictures with a quick search... Don't have any of my own installations either.

 

[sberry]

I prefer steel conduit. For a couple of reasons but a big one being the choice of connectors, boxes, fittings etc. Covers too. Easy to add or change.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Not the first time this has been asked.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45591

Charles

 

[1967marti]

Sberry what is that metal box with the lighs in your 2nd picture? Almost looks like a small heated paint booth

 

[sberry]

At the time I posted I thought it had more conduit work than it does, it was to show variety of covers I guess but its a welding booth made from 2 old dryers.

 

[buzz4041]

Here is post on the same subject with pictures.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=136868&highlight=buzz4041

 

[Andybull]

I just built a 36x64 pole barn with an exterior metal shell, in that barn I used metal conduit. At the same time, I erected an open pole pole building and in that one being that it is open to the elements, I used PVC conduit.

 

[DEEDDUDE]

Not the first time this has been asked.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45591

Charles

Here is post on the same subject with pictures.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=136868&highlight=buzz4041

Thanks Charles and Buzz, I found both of these threads when I did a google image search before I post the questions, it directed me right back here to the garage journal.

I'll keep looking. If I don't find what I'm looking for I'll use what I found as ideas and post my pics as I go. Thanks again for the help.

 

[mx842]

Medal conduit when done right looks neater but I do like the PVC because of the ease it can be installed and also the cost is a lot cheaper. I also like the blue flex type conduit especially if you are using some medal boxes and some plastic ones along the run. The fittings for this conduit are a little more expensive but still not as much as EMT or rigid.

In my ceiling I used the rigid PVC to run my trunk lines and the blue flex to run back and forth from my lights and fans. I made my runs off to the side of center where I will want to keep open for storage and used the truss to clamp the flex to get from one side or the other of the building. I also used romex in walls that will be covered by paneling or some other kind of wall covering. As you can see from my pics that I placed 2x4's in-between my post on 2' centers so I could have a place to nail boxes, place insulation and make my wire runs. They are not really in there for structural strength although they really did make the walls more solid and helped to straighten some of the walls that had some bows inward and outward from the wood doing it's thing but more to just provide nailers and a place to make wire runs as stated.

I'm not an electrician and I'm sure there will be some here that will pick my pics to pieces with all sorts of code violations so don't look to my pics as any iron clad way of doing your wiring. This is how I did mine but that does not necessarily mean it is correct in any manor.

OH I forgot....In the 4th pic where I ran the grey PVC for my mill there will be plywood behind that run but all I will have to do is take off the clamps that hold it up and let it move over enough to put the plywood behind it then re-clamp it back to the finished wall. This way I could make my runs while I was playing electrician and then go back later when I was playing carpenter to finish up that section of the wall.

 

[DEEDDUDE]

mx thanks for the pics.