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I don't see the link here on my PC at work, but on my Android phone it showed up.

I missed what Shawn said. I will have to check my subscription email later tonight. I am sure that it was a bit heated though.

Nick you may inspire me to start a new thread with my basement project... very similar to yours that I'm about 1 year into now. Feels like it will never end. I've been too lazy to put the pix I've taken into some sort of album, oh wait maybe I did put it in my sig.

Nick, I would check your electrical codes for what you are allowed to run for wiring into what size box. I changed out 5 2 1/2" deep rectangualr boxes for 3" deep versions to be able to run 3 14/2 wires into them for use as power junction boxes as well as still being used as a switch box or receptacle.
The standard hexagonal light box is large enough to allow 3 14/2 wires, at least according the codes here.

I like to run power through my plug in receptacles first then to my light switch and finally up to the light, but doing this means I required the 3" deep boxes to extend this run to other places as I pull power from either the switch or a receptacle which means 3 14/2 wires in one small box. If I used the standard hexagonal light box as the junction I wouldn't have required the 3" deep switch boxes but doing this would have meant I needed to run power back to the switch on the white wire, something I generally don't like to do.

I wish that I had the headroom to put down a subfloor like you did. That will be very nice when you are done.

Jason, I've been trying to find the electrical codes, but couldn't so I just kept calling the city with questions. I knew some basic stuff about securing the wires, box locations for outlets and switches were easy to replicate from the rest of the house. The city has a "checklist" as well for DIYers wanting to finish their basement, but that too was far front complete. I think that I've pieced together all of the main stuff, but the junction boxes were a mistake...

I lost a little less than an inch doing it.

I'm jealous of your sound proofing plans. I did a few minor things here and there but since the room doubles as a complete entertainment room/HT I didn't think I could go all out plus the additional cost. But I'm only on HT v2 while you're on v4.0

At least you caught that mistake before closing everything in.

There was an electrical code handbook(specific for my location) I picked up from Home Depot that covered much more than I needed to know, perhaps you could be as lucky?

Thanks for the tip. I will have to check. I already tried the local library with no luck. If they have one, I probably just need to skim through it since I am close to being finished, and I know that I should be good on everything else.

Nick, I was curious and took a quick look at the Marion library network catalog. There were several on the electrical code and wiring under the key word topic "electrical code".

Nice. When I was there a couple of months ago, the "librarian" couldn't direct me to any successfully. There were some books on the subject, but more of a "how to wire a light switch" type of material. Everything else was either gone with no known ETA on return, or was "missing" like someone checked it out, but never returned it. I will give them a shot again.

Just looked now, #1 is a Black & Decker book like I mentioned above, #2 looks like it would have been right "Wiring simplified : based on the 2011 National Electrical Code" but it is not currently available.

The 2008 code is available though... There is also "McGraw-Hill's national electrical code handbook" but it is for 2008 codes as well.

So I Googled the first book title (the 2011 one) and found it on Amazon. I can actually browse online through part of the 2008 version of that book. Maybe that will get me started and maybe if I can't find the 2011 book at like Home Depot, I will just order it. The cost is just over $8.

EDIT: Hey, that Black and Decker one claims that it covers the current codes too. Maybe I should just pick it up since it IS at the library.