[Toxigal]

away from wall.

so, need to run the electrical for my appliance garage on the outside of the wall since the wall is cinderblock. this i need about 1" clearance behind a series of stacked wall cabinets used as bases.

any suggestions?

[tommyz]

But I just had new plasterboard put up against the cinderblock in my florida room. They used wood slats placed about 16" apart on the wall using tapcon screws to secure them (the little blue ones with the plastic coating available at Home Depot. Then they rerouted the wire between the slats...

Doing that you could run the wire up between the slats - though I don't know if that is code compliant in your area - in mine it might be depending on the wire you use.

Also - you could "break the cinder block" insert PVC tube and run the wires through that and not lose wall depth.

I find that our cinder block and concrete homes present some unique challenges.

[kelly]

Are your cabinets already installed? If not, you could create a "chase" behind them by installing furring strips to install the cabinets against, and then run the electrical through holes drilled in the furring strips...

Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

[dafogle]

you'll want to make sure you enclose the electical wire in some of that rigid conduit (not sure if that's what its' called... but its' that hard stuff that will protect the wires). You'll need to attach that to the bricks w/ something so that it doesn't move.

you'll need to have some sort of frame that you can attach the cabinets to - perhaps out of wood that is fastened to the concrete

just some thoughts - I've never done something like that - so I'm sure others will have some good ideas for what you'll need to do.

Doreen

	W definition W is a wall cabinet designation, as in W18, can be a stand-in for Wide, or when followed by a / stands for With.

[tommyz]

It doesn't require conduit in most localities - also available at Home depot or other locations. Its got the wires wrapped in a rubber coating ...

[Toxigal]

reading your replies the simple solution popped into my head!

so, the wire will be in wiremold metal raceway. all i need to do is attach wood (1x2 maybe?) securely to the wall n either side of it and then i can attach the hanging rail to that...probaby wiht very very long tapcons so it goes through the wood into the cinder block.

[dafogle]

I Love it ... the simple solutions are always the best ones ...
Doreen

[tommyz]

Originally Posted by Toxigal

reading your replies the simple solution popped into my head!

so, the wire will be in wiremold metal raceway. all i need to do is attach wood (1x2 maybe?) securely to the wall n either side of it and then i can attach the hanging rail to that...probaby wiht very very long tapcons so it goes through the wood into the cinder block.

Check out type UF cable. It will have a thickness of less than 1/4" inch. So the furring strips dont need to be that thick.... they make them that are just about the same widht as the wire and then you don't need tracks or to lose 1" of space. It does't require wire track - conduits or other - and is allowed in lots of munipalities.

[Toxigal]

putting UF cable on the wall hidden behind a cabinet without protecting it in some sort of metal covering. i'm also unsure as to what code would have to say about using it indoors without a metal protection of some sort.