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Install Electrical Conduit & Fill Trench

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Kitchen Makeover + PLUMBING ON CONCRETE (Ep.2)

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What happens here

Once the concrete trench is excavated, metal electrical conduit is laid down. The presenter notes that grey PVC conduit can also be used, but due to availability issues, metal conduit with metal elbows and couplings is being used. The conduit is assembled by screwing the pieces together. Fast-setting concrete mix (Quikrete brand is shown) is poured directly into the trench over the conduit. Water is then added to the dry mix in the trench and mixed in place with a trowel, allowing it to settle into all crevices around the conduit. The concrete is then smoothed to be flush with the surrounding floor. It is crucial to ensure the conduit is below the surface of the concrete to meet code requirements, with at least a 'sliver of dirt' (or concrete cover) above it.

Goal: Metal electrical conduit is placed in the newly created trench, connected with elbows, and then covered with fast-setting concrete.

Tools and materials

  • Cordless Drill with Bit Driver
  • Fast-Setting Concrete Mix Quikrete
  • Water Tap water

What they say

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let it go any higher than that this does not go in the concrete itself so that's proper we got these couplings you could use the gray pvc conduit stuff they're all at the store like everything else right now so we went with metal i'm gonna drop my elbows in there and in there get my middle piece connect them together and then i take a quick drying post concrete cement put it in there let it dry you can actually not mix it ahead of time but actually start pouring it in and then you can start pouring water on top and mixing it inside as it sets what's nice is this way it actually starts settling in into all the crevices that we would have mixed if we pre-mixed it now the next problem right we need to make sure we move all this plumbing to where the sink is going to be i example

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