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Originally Posted by garcmol
John, that's really looking good. 12' walls are nice. There's a lot of room in there. Just curious, why did they double up the outlet boxes on the ceiling? I'm assuming it's for the garage openers, but why 2 next to each other then another set of 2?
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Norm,
the double boxes in the ceiling you are referring to you are correct they are for the garage door openers. 2 boxes are needed 1 for the electrical power to operate the opener and the other box is used for the Cat 5 ( small voltage wire) that is used for the sensors on the garage doors that keep them from closing on cars or children.
I forget what year but they became mandatory on all gargae doors when a child got trapped by the garage door and was injured. I choose to run the wires inside the wall inside of a box to make it neater instead of running the wires across the ceiling. I wire all my houses like this as it is require by local code on anything with an electric garage door opener.