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Part 2 - Framing Prep - • Enlarging a Closet Par...
Part 3 - Framing - • Enlarging a Closet Par...
Part 4 - Door Hanging - • Enlarging a Closet Par...
Part 5 - Electrical - THIS VIDEO
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Part 7 - Wrap-up - • Enlarging a Closet Par...
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This video is part 5 of my closet expansion project. Today I am running electrical. Notice the outlet on the left side of the video. It was inside the old closet and the house's previous owner was powering some AV equipment. That's why you see those old cords hanging down. I'm going to run electricity from this outlet to a new wall outlet on the outside of the closet, and also to a switched interior light for the new closet. As you can see, I'm using my oscillating tool to cut the sheet rock to give me access to the wall where I'm going to run new conduit. Most electricians will cut small holes in the sheet rock, but as you can see, with the oscillating tool, I can cut out large sections of sheet rock. Personally, I find it easier to repair large rectangular cutouts in the sheet rock than the typical circular cutouts that electricians make. I need to run conduit around a tight corner in the wall. People typically will make a diagonal cut from the center of their new stud wall into the existing wall. Here I decided to build a small box out of studs to give me more room. Do you see that switch in the frame? I'm also going to move that switch, so I will need to run three pieces of conduit through the corner. For this reason, I decided to build the box. Also, this is just a closet, and I may use the box as one side of a built in shelf. First I drill a hole through the sheet rock to run the conduit. The existing wall had holes pre-drilled for conduit, so I just ran the conduit back to the existing outlet. I drilled a hole in one side of the box and ran the conduit through the box. Then I nailed the box to the new stud wall using 2 inch brads from my small nail gun. Later I tacked it down with larger nails. Here's the finished product. Next I drilled holes using a half inch bit in the new stud wall, to run the new conduit through. I drilled double holes to increase clearance, since I will need to run three pieces of conduit through the large hole. I'm going to attach a wall outlet on the new closet wall. This house is 50 years old. Like many houses of this era we are always lacking wall outlets to run appliances. Next I attach a two gang wall box that will hold two switches. One for a new overhead light in the closet. The other will hold the switch that I'm going to move, though I don't show that in this video. Now I'm running power from the new wall outlet to the new overhead light switch. I'm stripping a couple inches of insulation off the hot and neutral wires, making a loop, and then attaching the loop to the wall switch. Next I cut a piece of conduit that will run from the switch up to the ceiling, to power the new overhead light inside the closet. Now that I have all the wires in place, I trim them to a reasonable length and attach them to the wall outlet. Don't forget: the black hot wire goes to the gold screws. The white neutral wire goes to the silver screws. And the bare copper ground wire goes to the green ground screw. I am going to make a cut in the ceiling sheet rock to attach the ceiling box for my new overhead light. I want to mount that box on the closest stud to the new stud wall. So I am using a stud finder to mark the apparent stud location at a few points. Then I draw the circular outline of the ceiling box on the sheet rock and draw a large rectangular area that I'm going to cut. As I said, electricians usually like to make small circular cuts in the sheet rock. But I'm using my oscillating tool to make a larger cutout. I need space, since my ceiling box needs to be nailed into the ceiling joist. I was able to drill diagonally from the top of the stud wall without touching the ceiling joist. I will run the conduit that will power the overhead light into this hole. I hammer the ceiling box to the joist, making sure to leave the box hanging a half inch below the base of the joist, to accommodate the sheet rock. Now to put the sheet rock cutout back into place. I cut small pieces of 1x3 lumber, then attach them from the existing sheet rock, leaving a flap hanging out. I simply screw the cutout into place with drywall screws, which bite into the flap with ease. All that remains is to attach the overhead light to the conduit. I like Waygo nuts, rather than the traditional wire nuts. I think they are more secure when you're attaching wires of multiple diameters.
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