Thread: Conduit out of foundation

Is there any code preventing electrical conduit from being routed out of the foundation in this manner? (It goes to the oven). I don't think there is but I wanted another set of eyes double checking me.

thank you very much for your help

David

There is no photo with your post. If the conduit is more or less a riser to the intended point of use or into a wall cavity to serve a receptacle box, that is appropriate.

Originally Posted by Darrel Hood

There is no photo with your post. If the conduit is more or less a riser to the intended point of use or into a wall cavity to serve a receptacle box, that is appropriate.

Whoops! Sorry....new to this thing! Here's the photo.

In my experience, that type of conduit is used for low voltage wiring such as data cables etc. I would have no problem with it unless I believed it somehow compromised the structure of the slab.

Doesn't look like conduit, looks like that plastic stuff people buy to put all their computer wires together so they aren't all over the floor.
As far as the foundation goes a drilled hole wouldn't bother me but that looks more like a trench. Depending on how deep in both directions the trench goes, general wall conditions at that location, load and method of trenching it could or could not be a problem.

Robert has posted the correct article for that type of conduit.

This specifically applies to the question:

(6) Encased in poured concrete, or embedded in a concrete
slab on grade where ENT is placed on sand or ap-
proved screenings, provided fittings identified for this
purpose are used for connections.
(7) For wet locations indoors as permitted in this section or
in a concrete slab on or belowgrade, with fittings listed
for the purpose.