Tips for Adding Electricity to a basement (How to Finish a Basment Ep. 3)
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- Here are my Tips for adding electricity to a basement. In this video, I will show you how I ran electricity in my basement as part of my basement finishing process. This video will outline how to install electrical outlets, how to installed recessed lighting, how to install an LED mirror, how to install light switches, and many other electrical items related to finishing a basement.
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Below are a few of my tips and tricks for installing electricity in your basement. Again, this is for entertainment purposes only and all electrical work must be performed by a licensed electrician.
1. Establish outlet receptacle hight and spacing
2. Drill holes through studs and joists for electrical cable
3. Installed Recessed Lighting Electrical Boxes
4. Install Electrical Switches
5. Install a dedicated circuit for each room (optional)
6. Staple and secure electrical cable according to code.
7. Install wire protection plates on studs.
8. Have licensed electrician perform electrical inspection
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You should put your lights and plugs on different circuits. So if you trip a breaker you will still have lights to see
Just finished framing and now installing electrical wiring. Thanks for this great series!
Great job! Thank you.
Dropping a ceiling even further in a basement. Most basements are already starved for limited headspace, and you installed a drop ceiling. Interesting choice. Also a good one, because you never know what you may need access to up there in the future. It's kinda hard to tell on video, but how high are your ceilings down there anyway? And, do you remember the name of the specific brand and model you bought as far as drop ceiling?
I was about to ask the same question
I found that those ceiling lights last maybe 5 yrs. Failure could be the light but also may be the controller box. My lights have a lifetime guarantee. My dealer asks for both parts tok determine which is faulty. Make sure the box can be accessed for replacement. I did not do this and created an unnecessary mess servicing mine.
Being lazy up front will always cost you down the line. Just install normal Can lights and all you will need is a new bulb.
I think you must know much more about electricity than you allude. I like the drawing to get your focus on where you need switches and outlets and the one circuit per room concept. Now; are those beautiful ceiling light fixtures high light/low energy lights? If I were to wager, I'd say they are but... Can you say more about 12 2 romex cable? Is this a norm or special use cable? Did I miss the part where you attached the wires to your box? I am guessing you are some type of engineer; you are just too savvy to be a run of the mill DIYer. As always your presentations are great. I hope your Holiday period goes well and you have a great party in that basement. :)
This guy does not know what he's doing with wiring. Never put your lights and outlets on the same circuit, or else when you plug something in and pop the breaker you'll suddenly be sitting in the dark. You don't put your bath lights on a GFCI protected circuit for the same reason. He's using recessed LED lights. NM-B 12/2 is the standard cable you use for wiring 20A circuits. You can also use 14/2 for 15A circuits. He is using non-metallic boxes. He shouldn't have broken the tabs out of the boxes as those are designed to clamp the wire. You don't need to ground non-metallic boxes. Cable stud protectors are only needed if the cable is less than 1.25 inches from the stud surface.
@@stargazer7644it’s all about how you want to do it. If it’s a customers house, sure run the individual circuits for your lights, if it’s not then do it however you’d like. The lights going out when you trip the breaker isn’t really that big of a deal and it’s not a code issue. If your low on money, depending on distances to the panel individual circuits could be a $100-500 investment. Just depends on the situation.
@@stargazer7644 There is absolutely nothing wrong with putting you lights and outlets on the same circuit. Every house I have lived in on my well over 60 years has had the lights and outlets on the same circuit. Putting them on separate circuits needlessly wasted breaker slots that may bee needed down the road. There is also nothing wrong with installing 12-2 wire for your outlets. It ads a bit of safety of additional safety and future proofing if you decide to change a circuit to 20a in the future. Those tabs on the blue NM electrical boxes at the big box stores are useless. Once you break the to rung the cable through, they won't hold anything. The staple next to the box will keep the cable from getting pushed back out.
I didn't see him grounding the NM electrical boxes, but I got a good laugh at him saying to use the Light brackets for the led pick lights he was using.
Just because you are extremely ignorant doesn't mean this guy is an engineer, or even very smart. People like you are why idiots on youtube get millions of views while the people who actually know what they are doing get much, much fewer.
@@MAGAMANI guess you have a reading comprehension problem as I told you what the problem was with doing that. If you wire your outlets with 12-2, why in the world wouldn't you put a 20A breaker on it at the same time? Cluelessness.
Going to be really fun when those lights start to fail and instead of just replacing the bulb, you need to replace the fixture, but they are no longer made and now you have to tear your ceiling out to replace the thing.
You can replace the light from the face panel
What about the regular insulation? If u applied the R-5 you don’t need the regular one ?
You are referring to Batt insulation. That would give it an additional R12 rating. I guess it depends on if code requires it. Either way, I would still install it. outside walls only.
Here in PA we have to have R19 in basement
I installed additional foam board in between the studs. Used foam board instead of fiberglass to help prevent mold.
In many videos that I've seen installing the slim LED recessed lights, people don't use nm connectors at the entrance of the junction box. I see it here as well. It is a requirement whether it's the old style or plastic buttons. Otherwise, there is the potential fire hazard with the cable or wires being nicked by the metal creating a spark. Also, 12/2 is generally way to heavy for the small junction boxes of these lights. 14/2 would be sufficient as long as it's just a lighting circuit.
Hi, why are sockets located at such an uncomfortable height? After all, to turn on some device, you have to bend over
There's actually no 'maximum' height per NEC. Some jurisdictions may overwrite that and the ADA has a max, but if you're not in need of ADA compliance or in a jurisdiction that overwrites it, you can have it at any height. In my laundry room that I rewired, they're all at 4' 6" as that's what was a height that was very comfortable for my grandmother. Thin laundry rooms + having to bend over(especially at an older age) = no bueno
Those outlets are actually way too high. They shouldn't really be more than about 12 inches off the ground, unless you have some kind of mobility issues.
@@MAGAMAN It's inconvenient anyway. I don't want to have to bend over every time I need to plug something into an outlet.
Did you ground each outlet in the string of outlets or just ground the last outlet?
You must ground each outlet, and if the box it is in is metallic, you need to ground the box too.
What in GODs name would make you think he is only grounding the last outlet? I don't understand how people like you can even function on a day to day basis.
You know, my mom and cousins all have the name Thron too. It is a sort of rare name - I wonder if you are distantly related. They are from the Giessen/Frankfurt area of Germany
Wow my grandfather’s immediate family was from that very part of Germany!! What a weird coincidence. My last name is Linde though.
Thron is actually a common surname in my home country
How many times do you need to mention how inefficient and a mistake it was that you custom cut each stud instead of building the entire wall on the ground? That's all you kept saying, over and over and over. Geez
the wiring looks sub-par