How To Wire A Room For Electricity - Bedroom Wiring Rough In

in this video i'm going to show you how to wire a room for electricity and in this case it's the bedroom we're standing in right now so we're going to be going over switches we're going to be going over outlets we're going to be going over a way to mount a ceiling fan and much more and if you're new to this channel my name is josh your channel is all about building your own house saving ton of money so be sure to subscribe ring that bell so you get a notification every time i release a new video and hammer that like button for me that's all i ask return for making this video so the first thing i want to do is go over the whole supply list you'll need to do your project so let's get started since the bedroom is going to be on a 20 amp circuit as you can see we got this yellow wire that is 12 wire and this is going to be 12 3 wire and this is 12 2 wire i'll show you what the 12 3 wire is going to be used for in just a little bit and this is going to be a two gang box for a fan switch and a light switch we got our single gang box that's going to be for the outlets so i got a whole big box of these and you're going to need multiples of those depending how big your room is then i got a saddle box to mount the ceiling fan then i got half inch wire staples these are for the 12 2 wire then i got three quarter inch wire staples which is for the 12 3 wire i got a drill any brand you prefer is fine but i use ridgid with a 3 8 drill bit on it and i got a pair of wire cutters you're going to need those a way to mark the height of boxes and switches a hammer to secure the boxes and switches and to drive the staples a tape measure and your tool bag that's what you need for rough in after we rough the wires in i'm going to tie the grounds together using these copper crimp sleeves and these twist on wire connectors with a little hole in the middle to tie the grounds together i'll show you how to use all this in just a bit and these wire strippers and utility knife are going to be needed for that as well so i want to go over some rules before we get started wiring before i go over bedroom wiring i wanted to disclose that i am not an electrician but i have wired four houses on my own and they have all passed inspection with no problem so with that being said this is just for entertainment purposes only so the rules that i came up with through all my experience wiring my own houses is you must first distinguish the difference between a bedroom versus other rooms so in order for a room to be considered a bedroom it must have a closet and it must have a egress for a fire escape so a window that's opening up to a certain size that meets your egress requirement that is what accommodates for a bedroom so just real quick again has a closet and has egress to escape from a fire and check with your local building codes to see what needs to be put in place for your bedrooms to pass code and with that being said you must have a switch by the door once you enter the room so that's pretty common sense i think most people can say they would want to switch when they open up their bedroom door to turn the light on but just want to put that out there so you must have a switch right by your door and the outlets that you install in the bedroom must follow the 612 rule so what the 612 rule is i made a detailed video a while back you can check out the link up here to go to if you want to see it but i made the detailed version of the 612 rule on that video but more or less says you've got to have an outlet within six foot from a corner and within six foot from each side of the door and your outlets can't be any farther than 12 foot apart so that's why it's called the 612 rule and there's some more details to it but go watch that video if you want to see all the details but that's just the gist of it so all your outlets must follow those rules and the smoke detectors must be placed in each bedroom and it has to be placed in the hallway where the bedroom enters into so you got the smoke detector in the actual bedroom from between the door and where the bed is going to be there has to be a smoke detector there and it has to be smoke detector right outside in the hallway too so just something to keep in mind again check your local building codes to see what they recommend but that's how it is here and you can wire the bedroom on either a 15 amp circuit or a 20 amp circuit so places like the bathroom and kitchen they have to be on 20 amp circuits using the 12 wire which i just showed you earlier so bedrooms can be wired using 14 wire but you can only have a 15 amp circuit in that case so it limits the amount of outlets and lights you can put on that so just keep that in mind and i want to show you a certain way you can wire multiple bedrooms and versus just one bedroom so you can pick which one would work best for you when it comes to breaking up bedrooms into different circuits going to show you two common ways you can do that so this is the way i like to put a bedroom on a circuit is right here and this is very simple to understand all you got to do is run a home run straight from your panel box to a bedroom i prefer to go to the light switch because there you can break the power out from the light switch and go to the outlets and there you can power your lights and receptacles all off one circuit so you would label this bedroom one for instance in the panel box so you know when you kick that breaker it shuts all the power off to bedroom one so over here on bedroom two and three we are going to do it a little different here i usually don't do it like this but i'm going to show you how you can so if you look here we got a home run coming from the panel box over to the light switch just for the lights in bedroom three and bedroom two so the power is coming over here to a switch then that power breaks over to this room too so you can operate these lights off this switch and these lights off this switch but it's just one power coming from the panel box and then you you're probably wondering well what powers these outlets so what you would do is you would make a home run straight to your outlet to any one of the rooms and then you go from outlet to outlet and then you can go over here to outlet to outlet and then we'll call this circuit bed room and sorry my handwriting isn't the best bedroom two and three you can call it outlets or receptacles i mean it's whatever you want to call it they're the same thing so this could be three different circuits here and they all achieve about the same thing so if we kick this breaker we kill the lights going to both of these bedrooms if we kick this breaker we kill the outlets in both of these bedrooms or you could simply do what you did on bedroom one and you could have made a home run here powered that whole bedroom a home run here to power this whole bedroom so it's really in what you prefer and on 20 amp circuits you can put a lot of receptacles and lights compared to 15 amp circuits so depends on what amperage circuit you're doing is one this might be more suitable for a 20 amp circuit versus a 15. so that's however you want to do it but i just want to show you some examples when it comes to taking the home run right to the panel box and breaking bedrooms up in circuits so the first thing i do when it comes to wiring a bedroom i'll locate where the switch is going to be on the wall when you open up the door so in this case this is the doorway so the door is going to swing towards this wall over here because there's going to be a couch right where the camera is sitting so i know i'm going to want to come up four foot to the top of the switch so i'm going to go ahead off the rough floor measure up four foot and put a mark all right and now that that's marked all you got to do now is take the box and as you can see here see these little flanges right here and here that's going to go up against the stud so you just take it slide against the stud because that's going to give us a half inch for our drywall so the box is going to be flush after the drywall is hung so you hold it tight and put into position and just tack these nails in from the top and bottom and it's going to secure it where it goes right here is the box we just anchored and that's an important thing to note because that's where the power is going to be coming from for our outlets and right here is the side of the door opening that we gotta be at least six foot from so as far as the first outlet goes what i like to do is just pull off that door opening and see where that puts me so right here is three foot which is plenty within range of that door and then i'm going to measure up 18 inches off the floor and that's going to be the top of our box and i always put an x on the side of the stud where the outlet is going to be located so i'm going to put x on the side of the stud here and i know my outlet box is going to be sitting right here so i'm going to go around the whole room and lay out what i need and go from there [Music] [Applause] now that we've got them all laid out we just go through and drop a box in front of each one of those studs we marked and that way we can go through and nail them all up at the same time now that we got the boxes laid about where they go we go through and start securing them to the studs where we marked earlier so right here is our 18 inch mark which is the top of the box here's the x so that tells us the side of the stud the box is going so this side has the flanges on the outlet box so it spaces us correctly away from the end of the stud for drywall so we line it up to that mark and then you just drive these nails in the top and the bottom until they're tight against the box and that's how you install the outlet box so go to each spot that has an outlet and do that [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so another cool trick that i had a subscriber mention in my last electrical video is they'll take their hammer and it's a certain hammer they use for every electrical job and they'll just slide their outlet down to the top of that hammer and that is how they get the height for all their boxes now i don't have a hammer that suits my needs for that but i thought it was a cool tip thanks a lot subscriber if you're watching so what i like to do before i start drilling holes to run the wires i like to measure up two foot off the floor so that way it gives me a nice guide to go by when i'm drilling through the studs so it keeps your wires looking good going through the wall so they're not all spaced evenly off the floor so it gives you a good clean job so i'm just going to do that to each stud i'm going to be drilling through and if you want to you can use some kind of laser level to put a line on it or you could take a block that's two foot sit on the floor so you don't want to use your tape measure but i've just been using my tape measure for the most part it's just convenient that way here's our two foot mark now take a drill with that 3 8 drill bit on it and go in the center of the stud you don't want to be way out here you don't want to be way back here let me right in the center so drywall screws don't hit the wire and just drill right through it [Music] and now do that to each one of those studs to where you know the path of your wire is going to be [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] when i get here to a window i measure up 12 inches and make a mark because you cannot use 24 anymore if the window's too long and 12 inches is good because our box is sitting here so it gives us room to staple underneath the box whenever you get to a spot like this where your regular drill can't get in very well what i use is a right angled drill and this is just a rigid job max with the right angle head attachment so this way you can just squeeze it right in between the studs and go to town [Music] i'd just like to take a moment and for you to take note that these outlets are closer than what the code calls for but it's definitely more functional to have those outlets every six foot apart than having that 12 foot space in between which that's definitely going to be a selling point as well so with this run right here the next outlet is over here and as you can see we got this closet door in the way so what we got to do we're going to have to drill up through the double plating into the attic space and then come down in this open in this space here between these studs to meet this outlet and then it's kind of a unique situation i got this duck in the way here so i'm going to have to go back up through to go and bunny hop over into this stud space then i'm going to hit this outlet that's mid-wall for a tv that i'm going to install here to go to this outlet then finish to run that way kind of a weird situation here but you will run into those in construction [Music] so in order to start running the wire we know the power is going to be coming from this switch box when i eventually run the home run to the panel box so with that being said it's going to come down this stud and go through the holes i drilled into the outlet box so what i like to do i like to take the roll wire and just unravel it a little bit in the short runs just so i can get some started without it being all wrapped up and hard to work with then you simply just fish it through the holes you drilled and then take it up to the box you're headed to and then i'm going to show you how to secure it and how much leave out of the box so what i like to do first is take a pair of needle nose to push these little tabs in the back of these boxes out as you can see in the back because they're seized together when you first get them so then all you got to do is take your wire and fish it through one of those ports and it should slide in fairly easy and what you need to do is make sure you leave enough out of the box to meet code there has to be at least six inches left out so a lot of times i'll leave a little more than that as you can see there's probably good seven or eight inches once you got the correct amount of wire sticking out of the box then i'll take a half inch staple for this 12 2 wire and go ahead and hold it in the middle of the stud and then bracket that wire using the wire staple and stay within six inches of this box you can't be further away than that when it comes to stapling per code let's just just go ahead and secure that wire into place all right so now that wire is secured and not going anywhere so now at the other box they had to roll wire beside that you started out at i go ahead and wrap it behind the back of the outlet box hold about six to eight inches of wire and then snip it and then i know i'll have plenty of wire in this case and then i jab the back of the outlet box out and then slide that wire through and then go ahead and press it kind of in the middle of the stud to hold in place and then i'll go ahead and take that roll of wire unravel it and go to the next outlet box and run it this way and then do the same process over and over again until you're done the room all right like i said go ahead and unroll part of the roll just like we did a second ago and then fish it through to get to that outlet box and now i'll show you how to secure this wire inside of this outlet box next so similar to the switch box same thing just slide the wire in and make sure you pull enough to allow to have about six to eight inches hanging out of the box and then press this against the wire that's coming from the switch like that and now these wire staples can hold two wires comfortably so now go ahead and just secure that into place and then after that all i do next is roll that up into the box and then we'll tie all these together once the drywall is done and again to be clear we need to keep this wire staple below six inches it has to be within this area where it does not pass code in my area [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you may remember in the beginning of this video i mentioned each bedroom needs a smoke detector in it to pass code so in order to do that you need to put a single gang box somewhere between the door and where the bed is going to be i usually put it in the ceiling right directly above the door we enter the room but you need to run a three wire whether it's 14 three or 12 three to each smoke detector so they're all hardwired together so if one alarms they all alarm if you know how to do that i made a video a while back and the link to it is in the top right hand corner of the screen go check it out and let me know what you think [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] whenever you have a wire running up the side of a stud like you see here you need to be sure to take a wire staple and staple it every four foot apart or closer but it can't be any further apart than four foot i usually go about three foot or so it seems to hold the wire a little better but that's just something you need to do when you're wiring your room [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] as you can see i got all the outlets ran around the room and all the wires ran to each one of the outlets so now what i want to do is take these two outlets that you see the wires hanging out of and wire the grounds together and i'm going to show you some methods to do so i'm going to show you how to wire the grounds together using these twist on wire connectors they have a hole right in the center they're designed for grounds to be tied together you can find these in my amazon store in the description below if you order them through my amazon store i do get a small commission but it's at no extra cost to you so the first thing i'm going to do is strip the coating off this wire and all i do is just lightly graze across the jacket just enough to score it you don't want to push hard and cut into the wire and then that's just going to give you a place you can start stripping the casing back on all right so i get all the paper everything off the wire and you don't want to cut towards the wire be sure to cut away from the wire that's the common practice and then do the same thing to the other one to slightly graze across it and again don't push hard and now you just pull that jacket back right like so and make sure you get all the paper off the copper and everything and again cut away from the wire don't cut towards the wire and now you're going to have two blacks two whites and two grounds now i'm just going to take these wire strippers and strip these wires and you can find these wire strippers in my amazon store and go ahead and strip off about 3 8 of an inch and this is just going to get you ready for when you actually hook up your outlet but i just wanted to show you how to do it you don't have to do this right now you can do this after the drywall is hung but just for demonstration purposes i'm going to show you how that worked so now what i do i push my insulated wires over to the side now i'm just working with these copper wires and what i'm going to do is cut one of these a little shorter than the other one and it doesn't have to be way back here you definitely don't do that now you want to leave a good five six inches at least left on there and i'm talking about from inside where the wire is out so we'll go ahead and snip that back a little bit and now what i do is i go ahead and twist these together and this is um it's pretty simple to do just take your pair of wire pliers and just keep twisting and you want to get a nice even twist here and uh you don't want to over twist it to where it breaks the wire just something pretty comfortable you're more or less just turning this ground wire into one ground wire all right so now that we got that twisted together we just take our green wire nut slide it over the end of the one longest ground wire and then where they both meet you just go ahead and twist that on to where it binds both of these together and if you had more than just two grounds you just twist them all and as you can see that gives you one solid ground wire and then this would hook onto your receptacle and then these would as well and that is all there is to that and now we're not going to wire these to the outlet until the drywall is hung so we're just going to roll these back into the box and that's all there is to using the green wire nut and i'm going to show you another method using a crimp sleeve so now i've prepared another outlet box and i'm going to use what's called copper crimp sleeves and these work really easy as well so all you got to do is take your two grounds in this case slide your copper crimp sleeve over the grounds come down to your about again five six inches away from the head of the box there and then clamp that crimp sleeve down and that's just going to kind of smash over the copper wire and then just go ahead and twist it similar how we did the last one except in this case we have a car the copper crimp sleeve holding them together again twist it comfortably not super hard and then here i just take one of the shorter ones and then just snip it a little shorter than the other one and again make sure it's long enough because you had to undo this to jump an outlet out of this box or something that there's enough wire to do so and as you can see here it does a similar job to what the wire nut does it's just connected a little different but it's a nice clean job and now we're again going to roll these up put them in the outlet box and we will install the outlets in a later video after the drywall is hung now it's time to address the lighting in the room so for lighting i'm going to mount a ceiling fan light combo so in order to do so i'm going to install the ceiling fan box this is called a saddle box and it's called a saddle box because of the design and as you can see there has like a u-shape out of it and what that does is go over your ceiling joists or rafter and that's going to hold the weight of the ceiling fan and sometimes you got to put a block between ceiling joists in order to hold the ceiling fan because it doesn't hit directly in the center of the room and that's what you want to do you want to hang the fan right in the center of the room of course so we're going to go ahead and do that and just so you know you can find these in my amazon store as well all right let's go measure to see if we need a block or not so there's a little screw right here pop that out and we're going to use that to mount it to the block as you can see i did not get lucky and the center of the room was actually right here and there was not a ceiling joist or rafter or truss to anchor it to so i had to put this block in nine times out ten you'll have to put a block in when you're using this method so just go ahead and slide your saddle box right on your mark that you made right like that and then all you gotta do is install that little screw back into that hole and that's just gonna hold it right in place until the drywall is hung and there's these lag bolts that they that came with the box these lag bolts will anchor the ceiling fan bracket and that's what ultimately holds the weight of your ceiling fan now let's get this sucker wired up so ultimately what we got to do is run a 12-3 wire up to that ceiling fan box from down here to where the switch box is to where the power is going to be coming in at [Music] now we need to put this 12-3 wire into that saddle box so we're just going to fish at least six to eight inches and that should be plenty there and then we're gonna roll it up into the saddle box until the drywall is hung and now to staple this we need to use a three-quarter inch wire staple because the 12-3 wire is a little wider a little wider than the 12-2 wire so let's go ahead and get this flattened out on the stud that looks pretty good something like that and now we're just going to secure it within six inches of that box just like all the other boxes all right that looks good all right let's go address the switch side all right we got the 12 3 wire ran up to the ceiling fan light combo now i need to make a home run with 12 2 wire from this switch box to the panel box so i'm going to do that now [Music] [Music] all right so this is the end of that run we're going to label this bedroom 4 so once we have a bunch of these home runs to the panel box we know exactly what they're for and leave plenty of length here because we've got a wire into this so you don't know how much exactly you'll need and don't yell at me for having the cover off because it is not connected to the power grid yet and be sure to subscribe because i'll be making a detailed video on how to wire a panel box all right let's go back to the switch box to show you what to do next all right now we need to get the rough length here again pull it out of the box about eight inches and we're gonna go ahead and cut that and now we just got to fish it through the hole we drilled earlier and it's going to take the 12 3 wire with the 12 2 wire for the power through the same hole okay that looks good so now what we need to do is staple these to the stud right here for code all right we want to make sure we flatten these wires out and that they look nice and uniform you don't want to make a rough looking job the inspector doesn't like that either so within six inches from the box put a wire staple and we got to use the three-quarter staple because of the 12-3 wire now while everything's fresh in our minds we're going to label these the 12-3 wire is a given but we'll put fan light combo and i'll know what that is for and then this one that's going down to the outlets that's going to be our power continued so power then i'll put c-o-n-t with a dot and then this one we know is the power so when it just says power i'll know it's coming for um to energize the circuit here okay so that's all there is to labeling that and now i'm just going to roll all these up into the box and i will be able to finish wiring these once the drywall is installed so one quick overview so the power is coming to this box and it's going to power the fan and light and the power is going to continue and energize all of these receptacles all the way around the room and then we're going to get right here and this is going to be to power our receivers for our tv and this is where the tv is going to hang and then it's going to energize this last receptacle here and then to light up the room we got the ceiling fan and the light combo up here if you have any questions about this project be sure to ask them in the comment section below i'll get to them as soon as possible and if you've seen anything in this video you'd like to purchase such as the supplies to wire these outlets be sure to check out my amazon store the link is in the description below i do get a small commission but it helps support the channel and again my name is josh the channel is all about building your own house name a ton of money so be sure to subscribe ring that bell and hit that like button for me all right guys i'll see you in the next video have a good one thanks for watching

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Id: ccrQBLvQTPQ

Length: 30min 16sec (1816 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 17 2021