Electrical Rough-In Checklist by Room

Under NEC 2023 210.8(A), every 125-volt through 250-volt receptacle on a single-phase circuit of 150 volts or less to ground in bathrooms, garages, outdoors, crawl spaces at or below grade, basements, kitchens, areas with a sink and permanent provisions for food or drink preparation or cooking, boathouses, laundry areas and indoor damp and wet locations, and any receptacle within 6 ft of a sink's bowl or of a bathtub or shower stall. 210.8(D) adds, wherever in the dwelling it is installed, the branch circuit or outlet supplying an appliance it lists that is rated 150 volts or less to ground and 60 amperes or less: automotive vacuum machines, drinking water coolers and bottle fill stations, high-pressure spray washing machines, tire inflation machines, vending machines, sump pumps, dishwashers, electric ranges, wall-mounted ovens, counter-mounted cooking units, clothes dryers and microwave ovens. 210.8(A) prints exceptions, among them a receptacle supplying only a permanently installed premises security system; the checklist lists each room's lines with its cite and the exceptions for the whole dwelling.

NEC 2023 210.12(B) covers the 120-volt, 10, 15 and 20 A branch circuits supplying outlets or devices in kitchens, family rooms, dining rooms, living rooms, parlors, libraries, dens, bedrooms, sunrooms, recreation rooms, closets, hallways, laundry areas and similar areas. Bathrooms, garages, basements and outdoors are not on the list. An individual branch circuit supplying a fire alarm system, installed in the wiring methods 210.12's exception names, is excepted. The 2020 edition, 210.12(A), names the same rooms for 15 and 20 A circuits.

At least two 20-ampere small-appliance circuits for its countertop receptacles, and no small-appliance circuit may serve more than one kitchen (210.11(C)(1) and 210.52(B)(3)). They also serve the kitchen's wall and floor receptacles, the refrigerator's, and those of the dining room, pantry and breakfast room, and they have no other outlets, except a clock receptacle or one powering a gas range's, oven's or cooktop's supplemental equipment and lighting (210.52(B)(2)). In addition to the required receptacles, one for a specific appliance, such as the refrigerator, may have its own circuit of 15 amperes or more (210.52(B)(1) Exception No. 2). The checklist also says which appliance circuits need GFCI.

In a living room, bedroom, kitchen and the other rooms 210.52(A) names, no point along the floor line of any wall space may be more than 6 ft from a receptacle outlet, and a wall space is any space 2 ft or wider. On a countertop 12 in or wider, no point along the wall line may be more than 24 in from one (210.52(C)(1)). The checklist states these distances; it does not turn a wall's length into a count, because doorways and fixed cabinets decide where each wall space starts and ends.

The 2020 edition's kitchen GFCI item reaches only the receptacles that serve the countertop surfaces (210.8(A)(6)); the 2023 and 2026 items reach every kitchen receptacle. The 2020 appliance rule (210.8(D) and 422.5(A)) lists dishwashers and sump pumps among its seven appliances; the 2023 and 2026 210.8(D) also lists electric ranges, wall-mounted ovens, counter-mounted cooking units, clothes dryers and microwave ovens. Pick the edition at the top of the checklist to see each.

No. Pick your state and the checklist shows its record from the NEC adoption page and, where the state's adopting documents amend 210.8, 210.11, 210.12 or 210.52, names those sections and says the lines are the NEC text without the amendment. Some states change where GFCI and AFCI apply (Idaho by room, Iowa for the whole one- or two-family dwelling), so read the amendment or ask your inspector. City and county amendments are not read here.

Yes. Save the checklist to a job, open the panel schedule, and Add from your saved jobs adds each required circuit as a 20 A row and shows any state check the checklist carries as it adds them. The rows leave the wire and the load for you to enter, because the checklist sizes no conductor and states no load.