My old boss told me to always run the main panel wire in the attic first, not the basement.

Honestly, I thought he was just being stubborn about his way of doing things. But after a job in Tempe where the attic crawl space was way tighter than expected, doing the basement run first would have added a full day. Anyone else have a rule like that they fought at first but now swear by?

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val_taylor1mo ago

My old foreman had a rule about stub-ups that I hated until it saved my bacon too.

morgan.cameron1mo ago

That attic rule makes even more sense in older homes with finished basements. You can't fish a wire through a drywall ceiling if you start downstairs.

holly477d ago

Is it really that deep though? Like yea fishing wire through a finished ceiling sucks but most old houses have some kind of chase or access point if you know where to look. I've done plenty of installs in basements where you just cut a small hole for the box and use a glow rod to snake it over to the wall. It's not the end of the world if you gotta patch a little drywall later.