Went to check a new apartment complex in Phoenix yesterday - their conduit runs are a nightmare waiting to happen

They use expansion couplings on the long runs or just cross their fingers?

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Is this one of those new builds where they crammed the conduit in after everything else was already laid out? I've seen that way too often in the valley. They pour the slab, frame the walls, then somebody realizes they need to run electrical. So they just hack channels into the concrete or shove EMT through studs at weird angles. It screams rookie oversight or rushing for permits. Either way, you're going to have fun fishing wire through that mess later, or paying someone triple to do it. Phoenix heat makes that concrete a pain too, so any botched conduit is just asking for expansion issues down the line.

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keith1164mo ago

...and I bet the expansion joints are an afterthought too, like they just grabbed whatever couplings were on sale. I messed up a long run once in my own garage, thought I was being smart by using standard connectors. First summer came along and the conduit buckled so bad I had to cut a whole section out and replace it with a flex piece. Learned that lesson the hard way.

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