Tying Up Loose Ends

When we last left off, the majority of the electrical for my sprinkler project was in place, but the run down the side of my house to the panel was still left to install. I had a few hours of good weather this afternoon, so I decided to take the opportunity to wrap things up there.

First off, I needed a small spacer board on the fence here to avoid having to melt another section of PVC conduit into a makeshift fitting.

If the cuts look a little strange here, it's because the two faces of this board aren't actually parallel with each other, and I have no idea why. It was a leftover board that I salvaged when I ripped the shitty shelving out of my car hole, so who knows where it came from before that.

Anyway, I have to say it's a real pain in the ass dragging out these extension cords to the side of my house here, I wonder if I should think about putting in some outlets along this wall or something?

Well whatever, I'm sure I'll get around to that eventually.

Anyway, the conduit from the fence hole and up the wall came together nicely, thanks to some careful planning ahead of time.

Although I maybe didn't plan the locations for the conduit straps quite as well.

Oops. Well, nothing a little caulking and some touch-up paint can't fix.

The outlet box here gets centered under one of the bathroom windows. Eventually I'd like to move my water heater to this side of the house, and I figure that putting it directly under this window is the least likely location for me to want to use, so I should be safe putting the outlets here. Should be.

I'll probably end up putting the water heater to the right of this box, though it may end up going to the left between the two windows. That, however, is a bridge I can cross when I come to it.

Balancing out the bad luck I had with that one conduit strap, it looks like some good luck came my way with the length of this piece of conduit.

I was dreading having to move my generator shed in order to access this joint to glue in the next piece.

And speaking of the next pieces, these are the last conduit bits to be installed.

So that means it's time to pull some wire.

Now just because I'm using stranded THHN doesn't mean that everything necessarily goes smoothly. Particularly due to conduit bodies not being exceptionally wide in the 1/2 inch size.

Up there in the shadow is the end of my fish tape, which I was luckily able to grab with some pliers and get it to come through.

I had considered getting the opposite angle conduit body, but that really would have just traded one problem for another, and thankfully it worked out anyway.

So with a few more pulls, all the lengths of wire are run all the way to the last box I left off with previously.

And then I just had to button things up while I still had some light left.

Or possibly while my work light still had some battery left.

But either way I got it done. This isn't the last of the last work I need to do, as I still need to put in the last few irrigation emitters, run the sprinkler control wires to the two valves in the front along the fence, and then connect them up at the controller and set up a watering schedule. There's no big rush on that, though, since the rainy season is going to last a while longer yet.