Electrical layout

[hampstead38]

Minno, please send a PM with your email address and I'll send you a copy of what Truck sent me. It is a good place to start.

Gene, it may help a bit if I explain my concept for the bed. As shown in the attached sketch, I plan to build a "head board" of sorts and then extend two built-in "nightstands" for lack of a better term. Each nightstand will have a 110v duplex outlet with the GCFI protecting the rest of the circuit, a 12v outlet for charging cell phones while keeping them handy at night and a separate reading light along with providing for some modest storage room for things one might need at the end or beginning of the day such as contact cases, glasses, reading glasses, bourbon, etc.

[CrawfordGene]

Sounds good. Bourbon will mean little need for eyeglasses. I'd prefer a gin and tonic dispenser, but to each his own. Seems like the bed will be oriented back to front which is good. We would have liked that, but didn't want the 27' trailer. Compromises are tough.

[hampstead38]

Sapphire gin and Canada Dry tonic... and I guess I'll need a lime holder somewhere.

Front to back is going to be tough, but priority one is a comfortable bed. I don't want to have to roll over my wife or vice versa to get in or out of bed.

To explain my "conduit" idea, the red box is where I might run the 110v wiring. I can case it in fairly easily and should lose more than a couple of inches of floor.

[CrawfordGene]

Sapphire is my wife's choice for gin also. I just drink it. Small fridge needed next to bed with ice maker. You'll need a water line to the ice maker.

Barb doesn't mind having the hard to get in and out of place in bed and my back would make it difficult for me to get that spot. The 27' new ones have the front to back bed, but it's a tight fit especially if you have a full size queen. But, with a 26', it could be done since you control where the partition is.

I don't think you're going to have a lot of inches in the floor if you have a queen bed. You could have something like a hollowed out chair rail with conduit underneath—that way you can run conduit on each side just under the windows. Or, wood trim (chair rail would work) around the bedroom just above the windows. Besides hiding conduit, it can be used to hang a mirror, curtains, clock, your Picasso collection, and serve as a base for those reading lamps. I wonder if you could run single conductor in the hollowed out part and cap it with wire mold fitted into the routed out space?

Gene

[hampstead38]

It may end up a "near queen." We have plenty of room in our existing queen-sized bed. We could fit into a double, but maybe there is a a compromise between hither and yon. As for getting the wires, once we make the "jump" between the underbed electrical area and the galley and/or bathroom, we're in pretty good shape. The galley cabinets allow the wires to be concealed as does the bathroom. I figure we'll start with the bed and buildthe coach around what works there.

Sapphire is good stuff. The first time I tried it was in Hong Kong. If you're going to drink gin, I recommend the locale.