I'm drawing out a design for a new electrical system in my garage using EMT. It's all drawn and sized properly, conduit and boxes, etc. But now for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it snug against all the walls and the ceiling. For instance, the first run ascends from the subpanel in the garage and turns 90 degrees across the ceiling. Given the depth of the emt connector I'll need at the subpanel, won't I need to leave almost an inch between the ceiling conduit and the ceiling? Otherwise, I won't have clearance to get the conduit high enough to clear the lip of the connector.
The same issue arises, it seems to me, any time the conduit run approaches any of the walls. I would have to leave almost an inch between the conduit and the wall, to get enough clearance to make the prior connection.
Yet all the pics I see of conduit designs are all flush to walls and ceiling.
I realize this is sort a special problem, but I thought there might be one or more people here with experience with this.
Am I just overlooking something obvious?
Thanks.
The same issue arises, it seems to me, any time the conduit run approaches any of the walls. I would have to leave almost an inch between the conduit and the wall, to get enough clearance to make the prior connection.
Yet all the pics I see of conduit designs are all flush to walls and ceiling.
I realize this is sort a special problem, but I thought there might be one or more people here with experience with this.
Am I just overlooking something obvious?
Thanks.