Deck: Electrical
As part of our deck upgrade and pergola addition, part of the plan included adding some electrical perks. It seems like we can't do a project without adding some electrical component to it (the one exception being our floating wall build which, after much consideration and my reluctant admittance to the effort involved, I opted not to try pulling power to it). For our deck, we wanted lighting around the pergola as well as perimeter lighting under the Trex overhang along the fascia. So this weekend, I tackled this part of our project. It was straightforward, though involved a little bit of code research for running power outdoors in a wet location as well as wiring multiple GFCIs to separate switches. What made this job particularly easy is the previous owners had a defunct box twelve inches above a 2-gang switch box right next to the back door. All I had to do was enlarge it and cut out the low-voltage box that was stuck in the wall protecting some speaker cables (which makes me...
