Separate Switches for Bath Fan and Light from Single Switch in a 1960's House
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4 years later and I found this extremely well explained example!!! Congratulations!
Great to hear, thanks!
Even the way Bob talks you through the process shows that he is totally orderly and thorough. And of course he delivers with the install every time. Very helpful!
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I'm as dumb as a rock - but comprehended the process.
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@@SparkyChannel Why did you make a ground connection for the light switch? Is it necessary to have it? None of the light switches in my house has ground connection.
These home renovation videos are very helpful for a homeowner. Glad to see them again.
Thanks Doc!
Your content is invaluable, I learn so much from them. So sorry you lost your YT content. I plan on clicking the Like button and watching in full all the repost I viewed in the past to help rebuild your ‘watch times’. Thanks Bill for your content! Very helpful and enjoyable
Thanks so much Herman!
I spoke with an electrician in my area and he didn't know how to do this. Thank you so much for this.
Glad to help!
Excellent, clear description including all the safety steps. I can’t wait to pull the single switch in my bathroom and see how it is wired to the light and the fan. Fingers crossed! Thanks for the video.
Glad it was helpful! Best wishes!
Love your videos Sparky!!! Watching you wire this in makes it look so easy, thank you. I thought of one thing my wife would do. She's make a label with an "L" and one with an "F" and put them on the switch!!!!!!!
Thanks so much!
You're just what the Dr ordered. Thanks for this informative video. I have a 1920's house w/ similar bathroom light + exhaust fan combo. Several of my electrical outlets, and random light switches, simply lost all power... The other 85% of my house was fine... No tripped breakers, or fuses blown. Kudos buddy!
You are welcome, thanks!
In our 1960 house, for whatever reason one of the bathrooms had two lights (on separate switches) and no fan. It was super easy to replace the ceiling light with a fan since the wiring was already in place.
Thanks Bill! Just bought a house built in the 70's and your videos are a big help!
Congratulations on the new house!
The absolute BEST description of this switch type of application.
Thank You Sparky!
Thanks so much Joyce!
I'm loving your energy and dedication to your viewers man! Thanks for having this channel! Cheers!
My pleasure, thanks Fabian!
Love this channel! Going through my apprenticeship now, and if I don't fully grasp a concept I come to your channel. You make things so clear. Really appreciate it!!! God bless and take care!
Awesome! Thank you! GBY as well.
I found this video very informative. I love how you went into detail how and why you were doing everything. It made it sound very easy for someone like me who has no electrical experience. I feel confident after watching this video that I can probably succeed in changing my switch. Thank you. I will be back for your advice on any future electrical questions I have.
Thank you so much!
@@SparkyChannel I finally got around to trying to do that outlet. Unfortunately when I took off the switch, there was only 1 set of wires hooked to it. So my guess is the light and fan got spliced together somewhere in the wall. I'm not that skilled to go looking. Haha. Thanks for the help. Next on to putting in gfci outlets.
As someone who has a great desire to learn electrical wiring, I found this video to be very well demonstrated and made easy to understand .
Keep me posted on your future videos please. Thank.
Great to hear! Thanks!
Love how simple u teach I have adhd and u are the first person I've been able to understand perfectly thank u
Thanks!
Great video, very thorough. I love that you show the tools you use!
Thanks!
Hi Sparky! thank you for tanking your time and explain us, I didn't see the link for the other video you mentioned at the end, explaining how to with with only one Hot Conductor for a fan/light combo. Thanks in advance
I'm sorry, the video I referred to was on my old channel and it appears to be lost.
Had me stumped on knowing light from fan wires...very cool 😎
Thanks!! That was exactly what I needed in detail! Great vid!
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Thanks so much!
you're an excellent teacher who knows his stuff. hope I have an instructor and journeyman to help me along the way like you. got a new subscriber and student
You're amazingly thorough. Great video, thanks.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Marcelo!
You are the best! This video was super clear and helpful.
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Amazing instructor nice job God Bless...
Thank you
I’m about to switch mine!
Man, excellent video as always. Much appreciated!
You are the coolest person man. Thank you for making content
You should label the breaker. It makes it so much easier!! Your amazing!
Good idea!! Thanks!
Thank You for your service!!
I just discovered you you are excellent at explaining electricity
Thanks Jason!
Good teacher. Thank you.
Great video! Very thorough
Great video and description.
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Thanks Sparky!
Welcome!
Beautiful teaching skills
Thanks so much!
first bow with respect ，watching your channel become my routine and joy ， I am able to understand wire 。 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you very much! Best wishes!
nice video sparky, the first thing that an electrician does, analyzing the subject. that is what I do also, great video, thumbs up for this!
I agree! Electricians are problem solvers!
@@SparkyChannel yes indeed!
Awesome video Sparky!! I was so tired of listening to the fan!
Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
nice job Sparky....thanks
Wow great job I enjoyed it. You were lucky that the wires were already available 👍😁
Thanks! 👍 Yes, but don't assume the wires aren't there. Take a look first, you might be pleasantly surprised!
Exactly what I have to do. Thank you for this video!!
Glad it was helpful, thanks!
Great video ,very clear
Thank you so much. I learned just what I needed to know. You are the best!
Excellent!
Thanks for posting this. I am sorry you lost your old channel; don’t give up on getting it back! Most things aren’t lost forever in cyberspace.
I want to do this in my bathroom. It would be my first electrical project. I live in a condo that was originally built in 71 as apartments. I have 1 breaker box in my unit and it’s very near the bathroom i’ll be working in (other side same wall, actually). I have a couple of topics to ask about:
1) what is the neutral wire for? In your switch box here, where did that wire come from and why did you leave it capped and connected to nothing?
2) how important is it that I test the ground wire, assuming I find one? Can you explain a bit about why the electrician’s meter reading showed it was properly ground? As well as give a teensy bit more detail on how your reattached it to the box to code with the pigtails and green screws?
Another excellent video Bill, thanks my friend...
Hi Arnie! Glad you enjoyed it.
I need to do this in our bathroom!!! Thank you!!
Welcome!
Thank you Sparky
No problem, thanks!
Great video. I like the electrical tape to keep the switch from shorting out.
Thanks Don!
Good job Mr Bill Spark
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Very nicely done!
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nice pushmatic breaker panel!
Great video Sparky.
Thanks Gary!
Very well explained
Thanks Sparky EXCELLENT Video!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks Chris!
Thanks- great video
First time watching. Good stuff. This guy sounds like the Scotty Kilmer of the electrical world.
Thanks!
Thank you awesome video teacher
You are very welcome!
This helped out A lot thank you
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Quality over Quantity. Sir you must have been made in America. Great video. New subscriber. 3rd video today
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Any word on getting your deled videos back?
These videos have been so helpful for me. I am a general contractor in Quebec. I am enjoying doing electrical work more since watching your videos.
Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge👍
No word from YT. I'm still praying daily to get my big channel back with the 182K subs but I have to say that this channel is growing quite rapidly! :) I'm a general contractor as well, in addition to being an electrical contractor. It's long hard hours isn't it? If I've been able to show you how to do something to make your work day go better then that's great!
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One of our bathrooms, too, had separate wires for the light and fan on one switch, but since there is another light in that room on a separate switch, I just put a new single switch in.
gracias Master......
Thank you Great video
Glad it was helpful!
Great video.
Thanks!
Thank you Sir!
You are welcome!
excellent video
Thank you very much!
you lucked out with that extra cable for the fan! normally we eat a lot of dust to add that one.
LOL! It's worth checking!
I'll call one of you, hate working on houses, give me some 6 inch rigid
Yep.....somebody before him had eaten the dust to get that second cable in for the fan. (which was clearly added later) 99% of the time one switch controlling light AND fan, you're going to the one fishing a new cable in, because the original setup they were wired together.
Yeah I believe that's my current dilemma, my kitchen lights are wired to one, open up the box, and just 1 white and 1 black.
Remove the white and they both go out, single story house, with crawl space, so I'm going to make an educated guess that they are connected some where in the attic
@@billyfubar2748 same I have a black and white ugh
thank you for you held .
You're welcome, thanks!
That's a good safety tip bill sun tan my white wire can be a hot wire it's good to have a meter to test the waters so you don't have an accident.👍
Wow! Great video! I need to do this in my bathroom soon. Just gotta find some of those nifty gauges you have to detect electricity :)
Thanks!
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God Bless you too! Thanks so much!
Kudo's to making sure the screws in the plate were vertically oriented after you were done. 👍
Absolutely!
Thank you Sir
Most welcome!
Thank you this video was very helpful and self explanatory. I would like to know if can you convert a light switch to a switch / outlet combo
Thanks! See: How to Install a Combination Switch and Receptacle: czcams.com/video/tVqqF-j0l74/video.html
Great video ! But I didn’t see the link to the video you mentioned at the end ....
I didn't see you connect any neutral wire to the switch. You pushed it into the junction box. Why was it done this way?
You mentioned another video that you’d link, but I didn’t see it in the description. Can you link to that please? Thanks!
Is there a way to add a dimmer to that type of new set up ? where there is a light and something thats not dimmable like an out let
I would use a solenoid tester to check for integrity of the ground wire in that it puts a significant load on it. There have been a few times when I have had false readings both with a multimeter and with a receptacle tester.
How did you know which wire went to the fan and the light ?
Could repost and link the video that you mention at the end of this video around the 13 minute mark?
czcams.com/video/3F7OvytMmho/video.html
But what do you do if you don’t have two wires (one for fan and one for light)? My light and fan are on the same switch and when I take out the box there are only 3 wires (one is a neutral, one is a line I imagine, and one for the fan and light together, it seems) not four like you have here.
Sparky, I have a question that you might be able to help me with. We have a modular home that was built with Self-Contained light switches. We've been doing a master bath and closet renovation and decide to close off a wall that had the door from the bedroom going into the closet (eliminating 1 of the 3 doors from our bedroom to utilize the space better) and moving the closet access going through the bathroom. We want to eliminate the light switch inside the closet completely where the old door was but, upon removing the wall, we noticed that the light switch in the closet has the main power coming into the switch from the ceiling and has the wires coming out of the switch to the closet light as well as running through the wall into the bathroom to that light switch, so two sets of wired going out from the light switch. How could we eliminate the closet light switch completely while still keeping power to the wires that go to the bathroom light switch? What would be the best way to do this?
Soo glad your channel is back! There’s a video you had similar to this where the fan and light were pigtailed on a single switch. You showed how to do the same thing on that situation. Any plans on re-uploading that video?
I do remember that one. I'll look for it, thanks!
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What would you do in regards to the double switch if the fan was wired constant hot?
What about 2 lights on a switch like this. Connect the line wire to the black screw, the 2 load wires to each of the screws separately.. then would I connect the 3 neutrals together?
Hello, sir! First of all , i wanna say thanks for your videos. I like them! I would like to know if a switch a foot away from bath sink has to be GFCI protected.
Sparky, do you recommend keeping that rag wire? I recently purchased a house from 1955 that has a few original circuits fed by that type of cloth wiring and metal boxes. I don't believe the boxes are grounded. Was thinking maybe the rag wire should be replaced entirely sooner rather than later.
I have three separate switches in my bathroom,one for the vanity light,one for the fan, and one for a light over the shower. When we replaced the fan, the shower light stopped working, do you have an idea of why and how to fix it?
At 7:32, when you test if the ground is grounded, instead of turning the power back on and measuring voltage between line and ground, could you also do a continuity test (with the power off) to determine the same thing?
Also, at 9:23, if the ground is already functioning, why do you need to go through the extra trouble of connecting it to the back of the box and pig-tailing it, etc?
2nd question, when attaching wires on new switch, is it safe to say an acronym so you get the colors of the screws on the new switch correct, "gold is for load"? Thanks so much