Electrical Rough-In For New Construction | Building A $350,000 Custom House | Episode 21

how many times have you caught yourself using the restroom and your phone's about to die we're gonna have an outlet right here this was just an idea now look what's behind it a literal real home i want an outlet on this outlet over here [Music] they put two nails in the wall and it grabs this like metal rod that they have so this will be a 3-0 left hand okay 20 minute on here and that means it's fire rated correct [Music] what's going on everybody welcome back to nico's property show today i am super stoked and so happy to have you here at my custom home build why because we're getting the electrical rough-in knocked out i've been here all morning meeting with the maestro the head guy the hefe the boss and we're gonna head inside right now i'm gonna show you what's been going on what we gotta get into and show you like what it takes to get a house electrically roughed in there's a lot of things where you got to make a bunch of decisions you know do you want outlets here do you want one where you know sometimes you know when you're trying to reach and plug your charger in and it's behind the bed and it sucks guess what these are the decisions you make right now when the house is getting roughed in put them on the outsides of the bed instead that's just an example as we head inside i wanted you to understand what we were doing today so come on in follow me in great crew killing it right now mr cameraman do be careful we don't want you to trip up so we're in the house right now there's banging going on the running wires everything's happening and i've got a bunch a bunch of progress already from the beginning but i wanted to do a walk around with you first and show you what's going on so follow me kind of into the kitchen here and i'll show you an example oh i'm kicking stuff already i'll show you an example of what's actually happening so if you look here this will be easier way to show you if you look here this is kind of the symbol they draw to know an outlet goes here so he's got his lines right there everything's measured boom you put an outlet here we've got stuff right here where you're putting the switches and everything like that so he knows hey these switches are going to go to certain lights that are in this particular room and then if you come over here and just kind of show a little bit of what's happening you see more we're putting an outlet we're putting an outlet you see they got the line they measure real good boom and all the rooms have this entire you know concept of hey where are we putting outlets what are we going to do so i'll have you follow me actually into why don't we go into my master bedroom let's go let's do that so we're walking through like this hallway that leads to the pantry area and we'll sneak through some walls here so i'm here in my master and one thing for me is i love technology i love innovation and everything like that so i want outlets everywhere i want cam lights everywhere i want bright lights i mean i want it all so as you see right here i've got an outlet on this side and my bed is actually going to be just to give you an example just like this nice king bed right there so i've got outlets on this side of the bed i've got outlets on this side of the bed and so they've got the little things drawn and my window was a little bit low so we kind of ran into a situation where my outlet's actually gonna have to be sticking out of my baseboard a little bit because i did set my windows too low but that's just a part of construction and the next time i build a house i'll be raising these windows up a little bit because you've got space above the window however got that all figured out if you come in my bathroom this is gonna be really cool actually so how many times have you caught yourself using the restroom and your phone's about to die and you can't charge your phone guess what we're gonna have an outlet right here so if you're in the restroom and you need to get a charger we're going to charge the phone in the bathroom kind of nasty but still and guess what another outlet for when you're in the bathtub not safe electronics water but guess what sometimes your phone's dying gotcha it outlook don't worry gonna have super bright lights everywhere let's head back in the kitchen area while they're banging around a little bit and i'm gonna squeeze through this wall how about that but what i want to do is explain a little bit about what's going on in here how bright it's going to be i'm a big fan of can lights it really brings the house together led cam lights and there's this new thing going around where they're kind of flat and it's like one piece and you can't just change a light bulb anymore you have to change out the whole thing but it just clips in so it's pretty easy we're gonna have i think we counted four eight twelve i think i'm gonna have about 16 can lights in here i'm gonna have these like pendulum lights hanging over this beautiful little island area i'm gonna have a chandelier over this dining table right here and then the bedrooms speak for themselves but i want to get some of this progress and some of the process so y'all see how it works i'm gonna jump into what me and the maestro were talking about earlier the boss man and we're gonna just show you you know how this thing works how you set it out how you decide where you want stuff and we're just gonna get this worked on so let's get straight to the video and let's roll that music [Music] here's your marker i think i'm gonna go [Music] okay so you got two switches here yeah two switches i want an outlet on this outlet over here because the bed is going this way so i'm gonna have a king bed right here so we'll go outlet outside outlet outside and let's put outlet on this side too but only the only problem i have here is i got my trim board and then i got the window trim um is it let me see let me google how big a king bed is that way maybe i can put it on the inside of that if possible width of king bed this is what you got to do problem solved 76 inches can i see your ruler sir let's see oh man that's right there brother in the window um all right so so it's going to be sticking where's the outlet going to end up like flush with the wall yeah with the with the base with the baseboard i see what you're saying okay uh did it look good yeah what's is there any other solution or that's probably the only solution yeah it's too low yeah all right that's fine let's do it well sometimes you don't want to do it but you got to do it so we'll be fine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so i'm gonna be right here hmm or do i want the door to go in here so these are some of the problems you got to go through are not problems big challenges like it's not a big one but it's still a challenge because you're thinking do i want to open the door this way lose space inside or open the door this way but then it's like no one can walk through if i go in the pantry so there's just things that when you're trying to figure out your sockets and or your outlets and your switches and everything that you really got to go through maestro i was thinking open the door this way because if i open the door in i'm going to lose this so if i go here do i put the switch on the outside or do i put the switch on the inside what'd you think i'm up for advice that way it's hidden but it'll have to be because open and then yeah the switch is inside but i said to you if you want to put some shelves all the way across that's what i'm gonna do so we can put it outside if you want yeah okay so yeah do one here problem solved we're good [Music] [Applause] [Music] or can you do all four like can you do two for here two for there the left two are this way the right two are gonna be that way door's coming this way yeah so probably here and switch for one can one exhaust and uh outlet gonna be somewhere here yeah that's how you do it you gotta actually go through the motions like if i'm sitting there and i need my charger where's the actual outlet gonna be at and then shower um i need an outlet in there in case i gotta charge my phone nice light my designer drew this pretty good though and then some cushions and stuff but i want some outlets here too somewhere i don't know where but i want some [Music] do [Music] all right y'all so just want to give you an idea what's happening here my man adrian is pulling this wire through all kinds of holes that they've already drilled and as you can see literally he's pulling it you're like maybe where is he pulling it from i don't understand if you flip the camera this way they get these little makeshift situations where they put two nails in the wall and it grabs this like metal rod that they have and this just keeps on rolling so they go through probably would be boxes they got to this two three four boxes and they'll get this house wrapped up i think it's a two day job are they on two day job three day job this is a three day job you'll get it wrapped up every after everything is done it's going to be super easy and it's going to look beautiful because the next thing that's going to happen is we're going to be able to progress we're going to be able to get insulation done and things like that and then we're going to be living in this house before you know it i'm excited for that so they're going to keep running these wires keep getting more progress and i just want to show you how some of this process works so let's get back to work alrighty uh walking down my makeshift ladder actually added some little steps in there so it's a lot easier to come down but my guys man absolute electric they are absolutely killing it however oh that makes sense absolute electric absolutely killing it but anyways i wanted to go over some of these plans with y'all okay so these are probably kind of a little bit bright but right now there have been changes made okay so there was the plans that you know had everything in each certain spot but at the end of the day the house is going to be yours you can make small little changes in between you don't want to make you know crazy changes because that's what you bought the plants for i loved what they were i loved the layout and everything like that but once my house we had that situation with the blocks being laid on the wrong side and it got about eight inches smaller had to tweak a few things and what i really love about this process with you know the electrical rough in is that this is when i'm dressing up the entire home i love lights i love you know i love like bluetooth and just i don't know the innovation electronics i love that stuff so when we walked into my office i was like well i want four can lights i want a fan i want outlets everywhere i'll probably have tvs in here i'm gonna do it big like i love innovation so seeing these plans actually come to life i mean this is a piece of paper this is a house but mr cameraman let's back out a little bit let's truly show them what's happening this was just an idea okay this was just an idea now look what's behind it this a literal real home that i'll be living in one day here shortly i'm absolutely in love with this process i'm loving how it's going and i love when you're dealing with subcontractors that just make you you know feel excited to be there when when they're getting the job done when they're actually doing a great job and you're like yes i don't have to babysit them too much and they're gonna do a great job if you pay them right always pay your subcontractors right if it's fair for you and it's fair for them the job will get done just right i'm a firm believer in that so anyways big shout out to my guys here we're gonna get back to work i'm gonna get more progress of this and we're just gonna keep getting this thing built because i gotta live here soon so why don't i get out of the way and film some more footage so we got the galvanized rod so you're putting the meter here it's gonna be in here okay and so we can just put the panel on the inside of that here let's go take a look yeah it's not gonna be it's not gonna be too bad seeing that from the road no i mean well we can do this what can we do we can we can go on the ground also cool we have to see wires hanging yeah we want to go underground see that's it see that's absolute electric it's absolute come on man okay somewhere here okay yeah so i got a water heater here how much space you need just five feet away okay so i'll probably be here where you at be right there okay yeah that's good because my my finished poured uh concrete is going to be i think here so just make sure yeah okay and then how tall is it gonna be five feet five feet up okay like uh from the bottom okay from the yeah yeah okay okay cool yeah yeah all right that sounds good then all right man that's how you promise myself get it done ain't even a problem it's that easy one two three and it's done because of this guy see you you're a professional that's why i called you licensed professional that's why you call them top of the morning to you folks we are here at my property and it feels so good to finally be on day two of the electrical rough-in so we've got a lot of progress they're killing all the work everything is going down and i'm excited to bring you in because yesterday when we walked in there was almost no wiring literally they were just kind of banging on stuff putting some of the outlets in but today this entire house is almost filled with all the wiring they got another day of work and i think they'll actually be finished by the time this video ends so why don't we move inside this house real quick and i'm going to show you how different it looks and what it looks like for electrical wiring to be in the house so you'll hear a little bit of talking in the background a little bit banging but bear with me i'm doing my best here so just as we walk in right away you'll see here's the outlet boxes like i showed you yesterday and here's what the wiring looks like when it's ran all through the house so as you go through the bedrooms as you can see through some of these walls you can tell like there's wiring all across everywhere because there has to be a connection from every outlet box to the next outlet box to the next outlet box and then that wiring has to get all the way back to electrical panel which are called home runs so you'll see a lot of things where they're ran like it's run from its home so it's a home run but anyways why don't we move into some of this area right here so i can show you what the concept of everything is so right here this thing hanging i wanted to show you this because i'm like man this actually intrigues me so this is the bathroom vent right here and as you can see they got it installed the electricians did it and then the hvac guys have to come and connect this into that so that when you're using the restroom and you actually turn it on that air is ran all the way outside of your house so you can see there's piping everywhere we've got these switches in place they've got switches all over the house and again it's just so cool to see how the guts of the home actually come to life because most of the time you you walk into a house you tell a realtor you want to buy it and all of a sudden you own a home but in here you're watching the progress of putting the home together it's like playing tetris it's like you're putting legos lego pieces together and now you have a home so we're going to go into this side of the house where they're doing a little bit of work and we do have the electrical panel getting installed today so that's going to be something really really cool but as you go in here the kitchen is also wired already not everything so we're missing a few of the wires and everything like that so they still got a ways to go like i said they still got a days full of work um and so you see wiring going all the way around the master bathroom all those things are good and all those places i told you i'll wear i was adding outlets like by the toilet by the bathtub those are going to be really clutch places because that's like the worst when your phone's about to die and you can't use it wherever you're at in the house so we're going to go this way we're going to try to stay out of their way i'm going to sneak through here i'm going right here excuse me sir so we're gonna go in here and show y'all how they're actually setting up this electrical panel mr cameraman be careful on the way down we don't want you tumbling forward yes please be careful oh see that look i'm telling you we almost had a man down y'all but that's real life so they're getting this electrical panel right here she's opening it up um the brand is just i guess is that pronounced siemens i think that's what it's pronounced is that what i was pronounced siemens it's siemens elect uh electrical panel and actually opens it we'll do an unboxing video so why don't she become the star here check this out boom so most houses have an electrical panel like this and it's pretty simple i guess if you've seen them enough times but if you've never seen it this is what it looks like and they're going to install it it's going to be awesome i'm excited to get this progress but i'm going to stop talking here we're going to get them working and we're just going to get this thing progressing even more [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right joe so that was pretty simple they got the electrical panel installed and my concrete level is actually going to be about right here so when i'm actually standing here this is going to be at a good level for me to be able to go in if something you know if the circuits breaker going off or something like that you got to fix something or reset the breaker it's going to be at a good level so they got that installed and the next thing you'll see is them running wires all the way from around the house from all the outlets everything like that all the way back to this panel so it's gonna be pretty pretty cool process to be honest i was gonna say simple but it's actually pretty cool not simple um and we're gonna get you all a bunch of the different areas of where they ran the wiring and everything because it is pretty cool how they've done stuff that way you can get a vision of you know where i'll have tvs where i'll have different type of things switches and through all the bathrooms and all the bedrooms so why don't i get out of here stop talking and he's going to get you some dope footage [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right y'all so my salesman from 84 lumber is actually about to show up so in the middle of all this electrical going on we're going to get in here we're going to get our doors measured up we got to order these things okay with the supply chain with how things are going 84 has been doing an awesome job mr don first of all appreciate you sir everything they do for me here at 84. always good to see you hey it's a pleasure so we're just going to do what we're doing anyway you guys are going to follow along and we're going to get some doors measured so don't mind us all right so here we're going to do a case opening okay which means it simply means you're going to have trim on both sides okay so we've got a 308 okay okay so come over here so you can see kind of how he actually does this so just so we remember ain't no reason to keep it in our brains he writes it right there 308-0 case opening oh that's good stuff coming right here we got a 2 8 which a 2 8 simply means it's 2 feet 8 inches okay 32 inches okay all right which our rough opening is 34 inches okay um so that the door will fit in right hand signifies a right hand end swing right arrow i always put on the hinge side which is just something that i do why not help us out why not help us out okay in here this will be a closet okay we got a 4-0 by hand which means both doors will open up i gotcha of course it comes pre-hung and right trim on it like that so so it's pretty easy to install everything is just pretty quick that's what we like to hear that's what we like to hear how long you've been in the business sir um about 18 years uh we've got a two six right hand door here and one thing that uh as i walk through the house especially if the electrical's already done um it makes it easy because the wall stretches are already here and i know that the door is going to swing opposite there you go and i'm learning all this stuff it's my first build y'all so i'm learning from mr don here i know my family's been in it but you don't know this stuff until you're actually doing it all right here's one that's a little bit different this is a just a little closet um it's gonna be a one one full right hand because it's swinging out okay um into the hallway space because we got our light switches i got you i don't get the question see look at that all right so here we go two eight door it's gonna be a left hand and the reason is obviously we have the light switch here but we have a wall space you always want to swing that door towards your wall so we'll be going here boom that's okay good access that's what we're looking here we have a closet uh it could be a 2 8 left hand because we have our wall switch there you go i got you that's pretty much now how long did it take you to get this quick [Music] um you know you just learn it pick it up typically we don't have the builder with us oh i got you i got you um but again even if the electrical's in or on in i can go through and mark stuff right i see how the walls are and so once we get these measurements then we'll get into the design and then you you you get that release you just need to know the door style the casing and the hinge boom and then you release that and we get them ordered yep see as simple as that y'all so you get them in and big shout out to 84 lumber again for all this kind of stuff that they got going on all the materials if you didn't know they don't just sell lumber you can pretty much get anything you need um and all you got to do is look up their website but we're going to get through the house get some more door sizes and then i'll get with him on design and everything like that so enjoy the rest of this awesome montage about all this work going on we're going to get back to work let me stop talking [Music] bow [Music] nikolai everything that we've done through your house so far has been two by four walls right and this is something that can simply be missed okay this is the two by six one right so it takes a deeper jam depth i got you for the door so and that was my fault i told them run two by six all the way down well that's okay and i was like just cost a little bit yeah for a six and nine sixteenths okay so but not a problem it's just it's an easy miss okay one when i'm putting a list i got you okay so this is why you get a mr dawn to come out and get it figured out for you 306 8 right hand opening end write it on there that way i remember right i got you okay a lot of progress that's what we like to do we're almost done we've got what one two three doors left and yeah we got three doors left oh and the back door for the covered porch so four doors left and we're good to go all right here's here's another one this is a bathroom yeah and a lot of times most of the times these doors swing towards the bathtub okay you have a freestanding unit yeah um you know the only other option really is to you don't want to swing it towards the vanity right the only other option is swinging into the bedroom it's nice right so tell me this if i swing towards the bathtub what could i put there to separate so that we don't accidentally keep banging the bathtub is there something i could put in my i could do a hinge stop on the door okay because if you put something on the floor down here and you're able to stub your teeth that's very true and then you're going to say bad words right we don't do that so we know this is gonna be a two-six it's gonna be a right hand and we just put a hinge on it and it'll stop it at a 90 or how's that okay i mean you can stop it oh even a little bit closer see that's what we like to see you adjust the hinge okay and i need to but i need to order that or is that like something that's inside that's something that you would uh get with when they do all your door hardware your locks i got you the hardware folks yeah okay and they they figure the whether you're gonna do baseboard stops or stuff i got you so that's this one would definitely be a hint i got you something see problem solved so obviously this is the the throne room where yeah it's going to be a water closet right um 2 6 left hand because we don't have room to swing and i got some good outlets here i got an outlet for the bathtub i got an outlet for the toilet room you know it's funny when i first started doing this many years ago people used to put phone outlets in their back in their toilet that's crazy um but now with cell phones yeah you know how he does that which makes perfect sense because when you disappear in the toilet room that's like yeah don't talk to me i'm on the phone or something like leave me out of your business but that makes so much sense i want to run across a house that has that that'd be pretty cool to see anyways oh man nikolai this is the entry door from the garage correct by code this wall it's 20 minutes for the safety of the home okay so this door has to be 20 minutes i got it this will be a solid core door same style as your interior doors okay but they'll have spring hinges on it which is part of the code here is that new it's it's not new it's been probably five six seven i got you i've been seeing that where now it it closes by itself and i had never experienced that but i ain't built in a long time so this would be a 3-0 left hand okay and i always write 20 minute on here so i know and that means it's fire rated correct is that well 20 minute means it gives you 20 minutes of fire rating oh wow because on your garage you got to have five eighths right i gotcha which gives you that that gives you that i got you well it gives you time to get out so that's cool all right so we're pretty much done with all the doors yeah the thing is adding up your attic stairs okay um make sure that's part of our rest okay matter of fact sometimes i do this right here if it's in this area i got you to remind me there you go that's good because we got too much going on in life but hey we're gonna we're gonna wrap this up get these doors knocked out and then we're gonna continue with the electrical work because this rough end is going very smooth right now so i'm gonna finish up with mr dawn here again big shout out to 84 lumber thank you for everything materials getting here on time and it's coming and it looks good too sometimes you get material that you don't really like and i like 84's material so we do appreciate that but we're gonna get back to work get everything done so appreciate y'all watching to this point [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] now [Music] so alrighty folks we are finishing up with the electrical roughing i'm so happy with the progress of this build everybody that's been coming in and out getting that electrical rough in done and then getting mr don from 84 lumber in here as well to get all my doors measured it perfectly fit up because as they were doing the electrical rough and like he said he can see where the switches are so now he's not guessing like hey are you opening the door this way are you opening it that way the switches are there you know exactly which way the door is going to open but however i'm extremely excited with what we got going on because now that is getting done i'm waiting on these windows to come in so then i can start moving into my installation and everything like that we did have a situation where the windows were on back order which is okay because the supply chain all around the world right now is dealing with that so if you are out there and you're about to build make sure you order your windows at least 16 weeks in advance because it is one of the toughest things to get right now with the glass and everything else that's going into building a window however if you did enjoy this video make sure you like and subscribe and make sure you follow me on all social platforms especially tick tock because it's so easy to edit and post there and if you haven't yet make sure you check out niko'spropertyshow.com grab you some merch maybe a hat maybe a t-shirt a crew neck or whatever it is show some support and i'll greatly appreciate it i hope you have the best day ever smile more worry less and stay blessed peace out [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 32min 3sec (1923 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 12 2021