HOW TO Move or Add Electrical Outlets With No Drywall Holes By Studs
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- How to easily add or move an electrical receptacle, or electrical outlet UP TO four feet away on a drywall or plaster wood stud wall without making notches in the drywall or plaster to pass the romex wire cable through. There's also no need to pull off baseboard moldings to hide the romex electrical wire for your new outlet using the technique shown in this video. This method is proven to work, has its limits, only works on wood stud walls, and much easier to accomplish using larger metal electrical boxes with plaster rings. Very high success rate for OLDER homes using steel electrical boxes, but you can also do as shown using modern plastic electrical boxes. DIY home electrical and save big. Enjoy the video!
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These are quality videos. Now I feel like moving an electrical outlet over to where my water softener is located. I'm sick of having an extension cord stretched across my laundry room for it.
8:55 Fantastic ‘trick’ to drill a hole like that without cutting open the wall. 👌
You’re incredibly good at showing exactly what you’ve done. 👏
Thank you! Glad you liked the video
Nice attention to detail and a proper nod to safety. I would be paranoid to lose the bit/extension into the wall!
Great job!!
Thank you!
Nicely done! That turned out looking great! 👍👍
In my house the covers are modified on several outlets and switches in order to avoid cutting the molding or trim.
Great job cleaning up that electrical! Thanks for the video.
good job
Nice work
You actually can't drill holes or put fasteners through boxes, unless that code has been changed.
There's at least a couple of brands that make old work/new work boxes that have angled holes in the boxes for nailing or screwing.
Southwire makes one. I've seen them sold as "Smart Box". Comes in the common shapes and sizes.
BTW, I'm referring to the screw you put through the box and into the fire block.
If there's a knockout you can use it
@@electronicsNmore I referring to screwing/drilling through a box, all the rest of your video is great.
I did it all through a job, and the inspector mentioned it to me. Since then I've had to replace many boxes, which we call old work, right? So I often have to replace with Smart Boxes.
Most of my work these days is in areas where housekeepers abuse the plugs daily, so they must be robustly mounted.
I also work in tracts where all of the boxes were flawed, and the plastic breaks where the recepticle screws go in.
@@aredditor4272 If you mean making a hole in a plastic box, then yes, they don't like to see that. In that case you can feed the cable from the new opening toward the plastic box and fish the cable into the plastic box, or make a small opening in the drywall just above a plastic electrical box to get your drilling done, then patch it.
Thank you for sharing your insights. Excellent video.
You lucked out with that firestop.
I sometimes drill a hole where I want to locate an outlet and fish some wire into the hole then rotate it 360 degrees to assure the clearance needed for my box. That way I can adjust the box as needed.
I would have thought that firestop would have been lower [cabinet nailing height]. Probably there for a towel bar.
How did you avoid hitting a water pipe when you drilled?
I know where my pipes are located. :-)
how long about did it take from start to finish?
The job itself is only about an hour, but when you're filming a video it takes two to three times longer.
Is a minimum distance from a tap a legal requirement?
No. The reason why I said up to 4 ft away was because that lets you drill through two studs. If you have to drill more than two it becomes a problem.
I’m asking about distance from a water source to the fitting.
@@grahameroberts8109 No. The rule is if it's within 6 ft of a sink you need to have a GFCI receptacle
Shouldn't you be using GFCI outlets in bathrooms?
Correct, that's what you see in this video. Any outdoor receptacle or receptacle indoors within 6 feet of a sink or tub.
@@electronicsNmore I'm sorry. I couldn't tell that was an outdoor receptacle. I like the video.
@electronicsNmore I can see it now. The buttons are both white. I couldn't see that on my small screen.
No need for apology. Thanks for watching!
It's cleary a GFCI he installed.
You used a 20 amp outlet on a 15 amp circuit.
The 20 amp rated GFCI was already there, so yes I'm going to reuse it. I don't waste money. If I had a 20 amp circuit with a 15 amp rated gfci, then that would be an issue.