NM-B cable buyer in Myrtle Beach, SC
NM-B in Horry County is tract material. It arrives in 250 foot coils with the paper band still on, or in a tangle from a house that was framed and then stopped.
- Horry County
- US-501 and SC-31
- Coils and cut lengths
NM-B cable in Myrtle Beach
NM-B is the cable that wires most American houses. Two or three insulated conductors and a bare ground, wrapped in a paper separator and a PVC jacket, rated 600 volts and intended for dry locations inside a building. It is made in 14, 12 and 10 gauge, sold in 250 foot coils and 1,000 foot reels, and installed by the mile in subdivisions. That is exactly the material this coast produces.
Tract work generates two kinds of leftover. The first is the unopened coil a crew ordered for a phase that finished early. The second is the partial coil, re-banded or not, that came off the last house. The first is inventory. The second is a length with a question over it, because the jacket has been pulled through studs and the coil has been dragged across a slab.
Horry County builds fast and it builds in phases. The subdivisions behind Carolina Forest and out along SC-31 fill in over years, and each phase leaves material behind as the crew moves to the next. Add the rebuild work along the coast, where a house is taken back to the studs and rewired, and the amount of NM-B in circulation is large and mostly undocumented.
The storage is the weak point. Coils sit in an open framed house, in a job trailer, or on a slab under a tarp. Horry County’s humidity does the rest. A coil that has been in a closed trailer through a summer will show a jacket gone soft and a paper separator that has drawn moisture. That is the condition question here, more than anything mechanical.
Why this material gets reviewed properly
Dry location is a real limit
NM-B is listed for dry locations. A coil that sat in a framed house through a rainy season has been in a wet location, whatever the building was meant to be. That does not automatically condemn it, but it changes the review. We look for water staining on the paper separator and for a jacket that has lost its shape.
The band is the footage claim
A coil with its original band and a printed length is easy to describe. A coil re-banded with tape is not, and a coil with no band at all is measured or weighed. NM-B is consistent enough that weight per foot is a good check, and it is faster than pulling 250 feet out straight on a driveway.
NM-B and UF look alike at a distance
Underground feeder cable is the same construction with a solid jacket and a direct burial rating. On a coil the two can be confused, and they go to different users. The print settles it in seconds. Where the print has gone, the jacket on UF is continuous and moulded to the conductors, which is usually enough to tell.
Questions on this material
The cable got wet during framing. Is it scrap?
Not necessarily. A coil that got rained on and dried out is usually still sound. What we look for is water trapped inside the coil, which shows as staining on the paper separator and a musty smell when the wrap is opened. A wet outer wrap is nothing. Water sitting in the coil for months is a question.
Do you take short cut lengths from a rewire?
Yes, and they are common on coastal rebuild work. Short lengths are grouped and reviewed as a lot, by gauge and conductor count, rather than individually. A bucket of twelve foot tails is a different item from a 250 foot coil, and the basis treats them differently because the buyers are different.
Can you collect from a subdivision with no hard road?
Usually. We ask what the access is: a graded lot, a gravel drive, a plywood runway over soft ground. A loaded trailer on a building lot carries a different risk from a dock, and the driver will want to know before arriving. Photographs of the approach help more than a description.
What about coils from a phase that was cancelled?
Those are often the best material in the county, because they were never installed. Unopened coils with bands and legible print are reviewed as new surplus. If they were stored in a container that took water, that is the one thing worth checking before they are described that way.
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