Can I Run Conduit On Floor Behind Kitchen Cabinets

Kitchen was single storey annex at back of house.

Can i run conduit on floor behind kitchen cabinets. Gives them some protection and is easier and quicker than chasing. Right now the original nm 12 2 cable is clamped inside the cabinet in the rear behind a drawer and pull out trash bin but it isn t sheathed or protected. The conduit is becoming dirt cheap too 15 for 50m looks neat too. This can be found in chapter 3 of the nec.

Have started to use 20mm flexi conduit from socket to socket and using the raw pugs with the cable tie eyelets around the perimeter of the floor for holding the conduit in position then wire the lot in singles in the long run no pun intended it s quicker. What i m planning on doing is spacing the cabinets 1 1 2 out from the wall with a 2x4 and running the water and gas lines in that space. The boxes connectors and conduit form a wire enclosure system called a raceway. Personally when routing cables behind kitchen cabinets i run them in 20mm conduit.

It s easy now for some like yourself to go online and google these articles. If you can run the plastic sheathed cable high in the cabinets or behind drawers you may not need conduit. Conduit always terminates at some type of electrical box or at fixed equipment that also serves as a box. Are covered by your buildings insurance rather than your contents insurance so effectively these cables are run within the building structure so with the limited information given it is not unusual to find cables in this area.

Also secured to cabinet wall. What kind of wiring can be used in a kitchen island. Fitted kitchen units are regarded as part of the building structure i e. Nm cable inside cabinets pc i can see where the cable may be considered not subject to physical damage 2005 nec 300 4 behind the cabinet drawers.

A later single storey extension had been built behind that. Ask your local electrical inspector which method is acceptable. I will run the cable inside the cabinet behind the drawers to the new outlet. The issue is that the wall behind the counter and appliances is lathe and plaster on 3 4 furring over brick.

Even though the wiring is simple you ll still have to tie in to a source of power to provide 120 volts for the hardwired under cabinets lights. But from the cable s entry from the floor up to the protected area behind the drawers i would like to see at least non metalic flex conduit for all cable in the cabinet. Special connectors are used to secure conduit to boxes and to join lengths of conduit together to form long straight runs or bends. Article 320 is for ac 330 is for mc and 334 is nm.

Now let s look at you question from a different angle.