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Outdoor block wall lighting, mounting boxes?
Hi there,
My masonry contractor has run some conduit in the pilasters of my new concrete block retaining / garden wall. I'd like to mount exterior lamps on the sides (not the tops) of the pilasters to match the lamps I have near my front porch and around the sides of my house. The lamp looks like this:
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My masonry contractor seems really uncertain about the right way to do this in line with electrical code though. He wants to just pop the wires out of a tiny hole and drill the lamp into the block surface mount style. By contrast, I want to have full round or rectangular boxes placed into the block so that there's sufficient room for the wires and so that I can easily change the lamps in the future.
What's the right way to do this? How do we protect against moisture? What does code require?
To give you a sense for the project, here's what the wall looks like -
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One last thing. My plan is to just have the mason run the conduit and mount the boxes into the CMUs, and then at a future time to run the electrical wire through the conduit and tie it into the electrical panel. I separated the project like this because I wasn't quite ready to pay an electrician. I do plan to get the electrical work permitted and inspected (I may end up doing the electrical work myself) but there may be a few months gap in between having the inspector sign off on the completed wall and when the electrical gets ran.
Thanks!