My New House & Workshop

[Rick W]

Why can't I run the wire through the conduit as I lay it?

You can. Just be careful about kinking it. Home Depot will have the conduit, and the sweep elbows that @Curious Hound is talking about.

You may want to use a larger conduit than you need on the chance that you wanna sneak something else through it later on. Also, as you run the conduit and the wiring, pull a nylon cord through the conduit as well. That way it will be easy to pull something else if you want to. And always pull another nylon cord through if you add something, so it’s always there for the next thing.

There will be different opinions about sharing the conduit with anything. I ran an inch and a half to my garage, Now, 30 years later, that is packed full with various wires for the alarm system and such, and I even have a small airline running through it so I could blow things off in the kitchen sink

 

[Curious Hound]

Also, as you run the conduit and the wiring, pull a nylon cord through the conduit as well. That way it will be easy to pull something else if you want to.

NO.

You do not pull anything else in this conduit later. This should only be for the feeder to the sub-panel.

Besides, what else would you want in there? You can’t run computer network or telephone lines in the same conduit as the power. And the whole purpose of this conduit is to supply a sub-panel to power the circuits in the building. It’s not a matter of “Opinion”.

If you think you might want communications cables to the shop later, lay a second conduit in the trench with this one.