Running Conduit On A Flat Roof

Exterior grade ethernet cables are waterproof and can be buried in the ground without a conduit.

Running conduit on a flat roof.

Seanb 1 don t forget the coil of cable and add a few ferrite toroids over the cable as well. Running conduit through roof reply 5 on. Lic conduit embedded within or directly underneath roof assemblies. But this time i would like to do a neater job.

If your lucky you will get 10 years service out of roof mounted pvc conduit in florida. By way of comparison the wall thick ness of 1 2 inch thick metallic conduit is comparable to the metal thickness of a 20 gauge steel roof deck. Hi currently at the side of our house there is a large utility extension from the garage extending 2 3m into the garden. Self cutting or self drilling roof fasten ers can readily penetrate metals of these thicknesses.

In the past i ve put down 1 foot long pieces of treated 2x4 every 5 feet and ran pvc conduit. At the moment the gutter drain pipe from the roof of the main property is running above the flat roof then is diverted along a drain pipe diagonally along the back external wall of the prerogative to a drain halfway along the property very ugly. Does the nec specify a clearance between the bottom of roof decking and electrical conduit. Although looking at it now the 2008 uses shaded sections for new or modified wording so the thin line might just be for new.

This is important when running the cable up the side of a house or across a roof. I m in florida and i have installed thousands of feet of pvc on roof tops. The only reason we haven t install emt was because of the salt air. The system will use cat 6 to each camera and running these wires indoors is impractical in most of the building.

If you aren t burying the cable choose a waterproof cat 6 cable that has a uv protective jacket to prevent damage from sunlight exposure. We are replacing part of the plant roof and some of the 277 lighting conduit runs along the bottom of the roof decking. Can i run it on top or. So i m planning on running all camera wires in pvc schedule 40 either.

August 02 2011 09 56 26 am author. I have to run a circuit to supply power to a sign across about 50 feet of flat roof. I can tell you real quick like it gets brittle after around 5 years. Mounting conduit on existing flat roof any time you see a thin black line to the left of a paragraph in the nec it means that it s new or the wording has changed.

I cannot run it on the side of a parapet. Also cutting and roof system removal.