The story is as old as Home Improvement -- a simple job (lEt's puLL Up tHe CaRpEt and SAND THE FLOOr!!!) turns into . . . more, when 1,600+ face-nailed nails were found in the floor.
So. I'm pulling the old floor up and discover -- the floor is floating on sleepers (ok) with frigging conduit run through the sleepers. Not ok?
shows one of three such installations in the room, each about 8 feet long. running on a diag. line.
There's a basement underneath, with a 1/4" plywood pebble-textured painted ceiling with three light fixtures in it.
The question: should i relocate the wiring runs to the basement, below the planking? If so, should i run some kind of flexible armored wiring, something else or pull the basement ceiling and run conduit?
And while we're at it -- would you go with new sleepers or go with plywood or OSB or something else to replace the old sleepers i'm removing?
.max