I need heat in my garage this winter and would like to use my dryer outlet to plug into my garage heater. there is 6' of 12-2 cord attached to the unit which isn't long enough to reach the 15' I need. my plan is to attach a replacement dryer cord 10-2 to a 10' 12-2 I purchased at hd. I drilled a 1" hole through the wall and want to mount the unit on the wall. My question is can this be done safely
Winters coming
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TractorJeff
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Yes, with good splices, I believe it should be fine.
BUT!
If I was making basically an extension cord, I would have bought 10ga wire to splice to the cord.
Or actually for almost the same cost, buy 14 feet of 10ga cord along with a 30 amp dryer plug to do only one connection!
BUT!
If I was making basically an extension cord, I would have bought 10ga wire to splice to the cord.
Or actually for almost the same cost, buy 14 feet of 10ga cord along with a 30 amp dryer plug to do only one connection!
If you can make the extension cord you can do the gas and hang the shop heater. If you are not comfortable doing it do you have a friend who has worked with black pipe and yellow flex gas line?
Well it sounds like your thinking of running the extension cord through the wall ? Sounds like this heater is 240 electric heater ?
It can be done, yes ........is it code, no.
Done right.........run 240v line with box/outlet to the garage. Might be a continuing line off the dryer box or new line from the fuse box. Code might vary on continuing the dryer box line.
On other code issue: In theory the wall between the garage and the home should be a sealed fire stop wall. That might be an issue down the road ?
All this assumes you are concerned about the code and rules.
Gas vs electric has discussed a lot..........NAT gas pipe install and vent pipe raises the cost considerably but the cost of operation after install is very low.
It can be done, yes ........is it code, no.
Done right.........run 240v line with box/outlet to the garage. Might be a continuing line off the dryer box or new line from the fuse box. Code might vary on continuing the dryer box line.
On other code issue: In theory the wall between the garage and the home should be a sealed fire stop wall. That might be an issue down the road ?
All this assumes you are concerned about the code and rules.
Gas vs electric has discussed a lot..........NAT gas pipe install and vent pipe raises the cost considerably but the cost of operation after install is very low.
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Bretny
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Run a new circuit. In the end its going to be less of a pain in the *** and cost only slightly more.