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hey guys before we get started on today's video i want to address a lot of the comments and questions that we get about me not being a licensed electrician but here i am doing electrical work so i wanted to give you the what's up with this project and kind of how we work with my electrician so jordan and i installed 15 of these single gang junction boxes in the attic to lift the old circuits into the attic to get ready for our new work here in the kitchen now that was over two or three days and if i called my electrician every time i needed one of these done he's gonna laugh at me and he's gonna say look we've worked together before i know you can do it just terminate those in the attic like you've always done for me you're gonna put the circuit number on the box it's more than we ever get from anybody else and my guys know when they get to your job site they're not going to have to spend a whole day being a detective on the electrical side they can just start running wire and here's the thing gang my electrician knows my background he trusts the way i do things and i trust the way he does things we have a good relationship that we've built these last few years and he knows when he comes to my job site like i said it's going to be easy for them we've been getting a lot of comments after the last two electrical videos we did the refrigerator shock video and the shared neutral video please show more electric please show more electric i've been hesitant but we're going to show you a day of electrical the way stud pack does it this is not a diy video it's not a how-to video it's not even an instructional video so we're going to show you how we do it today and we hope you enjoy it hey gang welcome back to our channel i'm paul with studpack in our previous video you saw jordan i remove all the popcorn from this side of the house it's all gone there's no more in this house the owners love it you also saw us do a little bit of electrical and this wall we didn't go into too deep of a dive on that because we want to go into a deep dive on this video now when you get to the point in your project where we are in ours you're going to be left with a lot of this there's wires that aren't where they're supposed to be so where does this one need to be it needs to be above the framing but we've got others that need to be in a junction box we've got some that need to be wired to a switch and we've got some wires that need to come out all the way back to the panel and we're going to show you all of that in this video let's start with this one right here so during our demolition this wire was above the eight foot ceiling and it's coming from this receptacle right here we can actually see it coming down the wall staple to this stud coming into this box and we've already got the circuit turned off you can tell by the tester there and we know which one it is because during demo we labeled every wire we actually did a whole video about that if you'd like pause this video we'll put a link right here to that video go check it out in a new tab and come back and finish watching this video so like i said this wire is coming from that receptacle it's feeding this one down here right it's going into the top plate feeding that receptacle this one is what we call downstream of that receptacle and this coil of wire was going across the ceiling into this old load-bearing wall that was here feeding another receptacle so we pulled that wire out we didn't cut it our advice is to always leave the wires as long as you can because you never know what you're going to use them for we coiled it up capped it and labeled it so we're going to take this wire and this one and get them up in the attic but in order to move this cable we have to come over here and pull these staples out of this stud so let me go get that puller and we'll get that done now one of these wires is feeding that receptacle and the other one is downstream of that receptacle feeding the next one i only need to remove the staples from the one that we're going to move this one so i'm going to come up here and push that's the one i want i remove staples by one of two methods standard nail puller like that or some offset diagonal cutters i'll show you both these offset diagonal cutters work great if you're in a tight spot you just grab the edge of the staple push and it acts like a little crowbar pulls that thing right out let's go down here and i'll show you these now with these i'm just going to grab the edge always careful of the cable pull it straight out and make sure those go in the trash they're deadly so now our wire is not stapled at all it is ready to be pulled out of this receptacle but we're not going to cut it we're going to disconnect it so let me move this stuff and we'll show you that these old receptacles when i say old this was done in 1981 they're 40 years old they're going to have a slotted head screw what does that make you that makes me uh what does that make me that makes me wise oh okay i can't argue with that so a modern receptacle you know a phillips screwdriver will work but on these old ones it's slotted and i just use this that's a klein and again we'll put the link in the description below there's the model number this comes in a phillips also and they work great on something like this you could use your cordless drill but that's kind of a small slotted bit most people don't have that laying around so now the receptacle is removed from the box we've got our ground two neutrals and our hots so we're gonna disconnect this now i'm not gonna cut the wires because i'd rather have them as long as i can possibly have them now i was taught you always remove the hots first the neutral second and the ground is always the last one to be disconnected and then when you're reconnecting the ground is always first then the neutrals and then the hot is always the last one to be reconnected and that's a safety thing the ground is going to save your life leave it connected as long as you can so this little guy here is a stanley what is that jordan one one six all right and that little slotted tip fits perfectly in that slot it releases the spring that's holding this wire and you can pull it right out so let's do all these real quick all right so our neutrals and our hots are disconnected i was taught always just bend them up out of the way and all we're left with is the ground you can see they're connected here with this crimp connector i usually just take my linemen pliers get me one edge of it or i can snip it off there we go so see that i cut off one edge of that crimp connector i didn't have to cut the wire so there's that one i still have the remaining part of that connector on there it should just pull off see how short that is i would never want to cut that i need all that i can get now the ground is the last one to come off loosen that screw take that off now which is the one we want this is the one we want it's just going to make it easier to pull if i straighten all this out right so let's do that with our linemen and now we're ready to pull this wire all the way out and reroute it through our new top plate over there let's get it done all right i'm going to drill through the top plate now i'm going to use a paddle bit or a spade bit you could also use an auger bit like that whatever you have that gets the job done and give yourself some room don't drill a tiny hole that you have to force those through so now let's un-tape this one and then we'll feed both of these through that hole there's our two cables we're going to fish them through the top plate now all right now we're going to pull all the slack through there we go all right those two are rerouted through our new top plate now let's take the one we pulled from over there in the receptacle and reroute it and put it back alright again we have our cable pulled down here this is a cable this is a wire the cable is multiple wires wire cable got it got it good we have this cable down here i was going to reconnect it but then i noticed see how short the ground is i would love to have a little more wire there and we have some slack in the attic so i'm just going to loosen this staple and the one up there and pull a little slack to give me a couple more inches of ground here just going to use these that's all i need i'm just going to loosen them see how i can just tap that and loosen that staple these work great for that now let me hop up there and i'll try to feed you a little bit more wire bud there now see that wasn't that worth 30 seconds to get more ground wire so now just remove this sheathing and we'll put this one back and reconnect everything when you're doing sheathing like this in a box note that the ground is always in the middle on this two conductor cable so if the tip of the knife goes through the sheathing it's just going to hit the ground you don't want to go through the sheathing you just want to score it but if by chance you do happen to go too far with the knife you're not going to hurt anything because all that's under it is the ground wire so you have to go right down the middle can't be here or here let's get rid of this paper that one's ready we'll put this one back we've got our cable put back in the box we have all this slack but instead of cutting it i'm going to pull it back and i'm going to store this in the attic it goes back to what i said before always leave these as long as you can you never know when you might need it so that's where i want it i've got sheathing inside the box and just to hold everything i'm going to put a staple right here and now we're going to reconnect this receptacle we've been using it quite often on the job so we're going to put it back and then at the end of the project we'll put a nice new one here so always make sure my wires are not twisted and i take the ones i'm not working on and i bend them up like that because i'm going to do the grounds first remember what i said earlier the grounds are the last one to be disconnected but the first ones to be connected so i'm going to save the longer one see this one's shorter than this one i'm going to save this one i twisted them back here and i'm going to cut off that piece i'm going to grab a grounding wire nut they're green and they have a hole in them just like that that hole is for this wire and that's going to be the wire we connect to the ground screw on our device and we twist that on it's going to make a secure connection between these two ground wires let's just go ahead and hook up the receptacle now i'm going to use my strippers they come with these holes in them we're going to bend a little hook i'm under the ground screw always clockwise see how that hooks going around clockwise tighten that screw and the ground is connected now when i do my finish work i never use the push in connectors in the back i call them push and praise you push them in and pray they hold i know i'm going to change this in the end so for right now i'm just going to put these back the two whites go on the neutral side of the plug obviously that's the silver screw on this one it's a little hard to tell but on a receptacle the wider slot is always the neutral see how that one's wider than that one that's always the neutral side so one two the neutral side is connected one two now my hot side is connected i'm gonna tuck these wires in they're a little long for me right now but we'll fix all that again when we do our finish electric this one's all back together remember we're going to pull this up and staple that properly like it needs to be done let's go over here and talk about this other one this is the one that was feeding that receptacle in that load-bearing wall and we're just going to terminate it in a junction box in the attic for future use and remember when i said leave them long this is a benefit of that i can make this up right here on the owner's beautiful dining room table i can make it up in the junction box and all i got to do is go up there and nail it off so first thing i'm going to do it's circuit 11b i'm going to write that on the cover plate for me and future knees so we'll know what circuit that is because i'm about to cut this off of here and i will probably forget now we've got plenty of wire to put in the junction box if we ever need to connect to it it'll be super easy i'm going to punch out one of these knockouts in the back just like that it doesn't matter which one nope they give you four of them we just have one cable so it doesn't matter come on in cap them i always like to cap the ground in a situation like this because as i'm folding them and stuffing them in the box it's possible that if you don't cap it it could go in there and that would be bad so just put a wire nut on there take them and fold them and now we're ready for whatever purpose this has in the future we'll coil this up put some staples in it nail this off put the cover plate on and this will be done all right here's a little pro tip about taping off a coil of wire or taping off the end of a wire this is pretty tough i've got my left hand there to hold the coil together now i'm going to come over here try to get this started and then i've got to put it there and hold it with my left thumb and come around and then try to get it tight you get the idea but check this out i'm going to get my tape while i have two hands free i'll make a turn around there and now after i make my coil i can just grab that and it's ready to go pretty cool huh saves you all that fumbling around now this is ready to go up there i don't want to put it too far back because i want access but yeah i like that i put it on this little brace here that way it's facing out so if a future me is walking by and they see it they're more likely to see this than if we're just laying flat somewhere they don't have to dig an insulation or anything so i'll just put the cover plate on and this one's done look at that that one's done let's go turn this circuit on and check our work and we'll turn the next circuit that we're going to work on off while we're out there all right on this cable right here it's feeding the receptacle on the front porch which is being ground fault protected by a bathroom gfci that's how they did it back in the 80s so we didn't want to go outside in the rain disconnect that receptacle remove this drywall and all those staples like we did over there to get this wire out of the wall and we certainly didn't want to go into that brand new bathroom and disconnect it there so we just cut it and we're going to make it up in a junction box in the attic so do as much prep work as you can on the ground i've already removed these and i've got the cover plate ready to go 100k lacs what's what's an lacs protection that's very special protection for a receptacle it means like and consider subscribing now this is the one that goes there circuit number 15a and i put gfci in there just to remind again future me's that that circuit is ground fault protected in case they need it for something else so let's go in the attic and hook up our junction box we got our box nailed off i'm going to strip all these get them ready one two four grab three wire nuts out of my pouch and hook them together remember ground is always first it's just a good habit to get into even though we know this is off it's a great habit to have when you're reconnecting something connect the ground first then the neutrals and i just always like to make sure the ends are even and when i'm putting two number 14s together i don't free twist the wire nut is going to do that with three number fourteens i'll pre-twist and i always pre-twist twelve and that just means i'm grabbing my linemen and i'm twisting this wire ahead of time all right that one's done remember i'm gonna come back and staple all this and route it like i like later i'm just going to staple everything off at once with one trip in the attic let me tuck these in we'll put that cover plate on there and we can turn that circuit back on hey gang wardrobe change it's actually the next day jordan and i were up there last night both of our phones went off we got an alert as a reminder for a surprise party we were supposed to be at in 30 minutes so we had to clean up zip across town and make a stud pack appearance we did the surprise was great but we're back here today i'm going to keep working on this electrical but i want to show you a couple things before we get started i've always used wire nuts and it's still what i use this is the brand ideal twisters and they're tan i just buy them by the bag of 500 but here's a little tip a lot of people don't know about them they're shaped to accept a 5 16 nut driver i'm just using my ideal tenon one tool just like that and you can twist them on or untwist them if they're really tight honestly i hardly ever use that feature on them but where it's good is if you have two wires in a junction box and they're cut short and you can't get your hand in there to start a wire nut you can start a wire nut this way push it in there and get it going so good tip to know a lot of you might like these these are great i have a whole bag of them and a lot of you might like the huego or the bago depending on how you pronounce it all great options pick the one you like the most stick with it but for right now we're going to head back up in the attic and keep working on these circuits today we're going to start over here in the corner of the kitchen this receptacle used to be the only receptacle circuit over here on this wall it's actually in a metal box oh check that out jordan there's a loose screw in there and a metal box what are people thinking sometimes that would be a lot of fireworks if that were on the wrong side of that box well let's go outside and turn that off and i'm going to get in the attic mask up get my tools on and get this thing terminated all right back in the attic our favorite spot let me show you what we got this wire is feeding the metal box we showed you downstairs this other one was feeding the old microwave and they're both being fed from this wire which is a home run back to the panel circuit number six and they're all made up in this metal box so it's kind of cool being up here i mean jordan's sitting on the beam we installed and your feet are on the joist hangers right and your feet are on the joist supported by the joist hangers so we're both being supported by our work so you got to do a good job right all right so this metal box supposed to be bonded to the ground what do you think did they do it i'm going to say they did all right and they actually put connectors here for the cables so maybe they did let's check it out and no they did not oh man yep that's what you said yep so i think just to make this easy we're gonna get rid of this metal box terminate this wire in a plastic box that way they're all the same so why don't i just cut this one we have plenty of wire right here and we'll demo all that we can pull that out from downstairs let me pull this box up and we're done we're done with that i'm just going to drop it all right now let's terminate this how about on this king stud right here or right here um i like the king stud you like that yeah because um think about if you were working up here you wouldn't want to be ringing down you'd want to be as high as we could so this is circuit six like we said my plan is for the electrician to tie into here for the small appliance circuits on the counter on this side of the kitchen so let's just strip this back put a couple of wire nuts on it nail that to the king stud and we'll be done with this one all right we've got a cover plate make sure i don't drop the screws cool doesn't take long at all why don't we do this other one while we're right here all right again while we're up here we're just going to go ahead and do this one we're going to mount a box to this post we put in to support the roof and i do have a non-contact voltage indicator this is by klein and let's check it out so that one's hot but the two we're working on we already turned off they're off at the panel so i know i'm safe just cut them apart and this is a 15 amp circuit this is a lighting circuit so this will be perfect for our new dining room lights or our kitchen lights this one that goes behind jordan i'm going to leave it as long as i can that way i can route this wire around the perimeter of the room instead of cutting across the top of the joist and this one i think i'll just cut it here again like we said always leave them as long as you can then when i strip something like this i just use the utility knife as a gauge that's how long i strip it the length of the knife works well for me what i do i lightly score it here and then when i get to the end i press a little harder so that the sheathing comes apart like that and then i just tear it that way i'm not cutting all the way through here i'm just scoring the sheathing and then i'll just pull off just like that and remove the paper from the ground sometimes that takes longer than doing the sheathing there's so much paper on here right there we go put them in our box so you'll notice both cables went through one hole that's okay you can do two through one or if you're not comfortable with that just put one here and one here or you go here and here however your wires are routed the other nice thing about these strippers they're made for romex so i only have a stripper for 14 number 14 wire and a stripper for number 12 wire i don't have like six different holes and i gotta figure out which is the right one there's just two it makes it easy on my old eyes all right let's make up the grounds and the neutrals and the hots fold them back into the box and remember our electrician's going to be back he's going to be working in there so let's put the cover plate on there and go do that next one but all right i'm down from the attic and if you look up here you can see one two three junction boxes that are labeled and ready for our electrician to tie all his new stuff into now this one right above me it's labeled 14a those two wires going into that box used to come straight down to that old two gang box that was right here on this wall where this stud pack is then we demoed it mounted it here so the owners could still control the lights but now it's all gone so that box had four wires coming into it we had 120 volts in and we had 120 volts out down to the next switch in the dining room and those two are made up up there like we said the other two wires that were in the box this is one of them it's a 14 3 and it's for the three-way switch that was in this box and the fourth wire was a 14-2 and it fed that beautiful fluorescent light up here in the popcorn ceiling we already pulled it out that's the remains of that circuit goes in the trash all that's left in the demolition phase of this circuit is this old three-way switch it's for the fan that was over the breakfast area with our new layout we don't need two switches we're just going to have one right here in this beautiful 45 degree corner wall so we just have to get rid of this circuit it comes down here into the old three-way box that was on this wall where the pocket door now is and this is the switch leg that goes up and over to right here so we're going to cut these two pull them up through the top plate and then this circuit is demoed all right gang i've cut off both of the boxes that these were attached to these two wires are getting demoed this wire fed the old fan and this 14 3 is this one right here from our old box all i need to do go in the attic pull the staples and pull all this out i'm left with these two it was the three-way switch for the laundry which we don't need anymore we're just going to have a single pole switch in the laundry so i'm going to terminate these in the attic in a junction box and convert the three-way switches into a single pole so let's head up there and do that here's the two wires we're gonna demo i should just be able to pull them out there we go so there's that one it looks like it's just gonna fall jordan yeah down into the pantry yep almost and then this one goes over here to the old fan location there we go we'll just pull that out when we go downstairs maybe there we go easy all right all that's left is that laundry room 3-way light circuit there's our 14-3 there's our 14-2 we're just going to make that up we'll cap off the red traveler on each end and use the black wires basically turning that location into a single pole switch let's just find a spot for this jordan maybe over here sure so the reason that it's called a 14 3 is because it has three conductors inside of it correct and the extra one is that red wire correct the red wire is what allows it to be a three-way switch that's right so you're just gonna put a cap on both of them making it obsolete turning it into a regular romex like a 14 2 what we've been using this whole time yep i'm going to cap each into the red now when you say 14 3 that means three conductors and they don't count the ground so there's actually four wires in there sure three with insulation the ground does not have insulation so it's called a 14-3 in a 14-2 you have two insulated conductors the black and the white and the ground is the third uninsulated wire they go under this strong back huh right there yep why don't we just make it up on this strong back like right here sure all right gang let's make up this junction box real quick just like we've been doing and i've already got the cover plate ready to go all right gang this is what it looks like just like all the other boxes the only exception is this red wire that's one of the travelers we just capped it off here so i actually already capped off the other end of the red so we're going to put all this back in the box put our cover on it turn the circuit back on and this side is done so that's what it looks like all cleaned up with all those switches gone that used to be in this wall right here remember the laundry room light was controlled by two three-way switches here and here we just need the one so we turned it into a single pole and then the other switch that was here was for the breakfast area but we'll have a nice new one right here so we didn't feel like we needed that and we couldn't put one here anyway because of the pocket door and all the cabinets so all this work took the better part of about three days now we filled this trash can twice with old wire and boxes that came out of the attic and out of this kitchen and remember at the beginning of the video i said there are 15 junction boxes in the attic why don't we head up there and take a look at them and we'll show you what we did all right again we're up in the attic and i'm going to show you just three boxes that we did what it looks like it's these three right here hey did you set those with a laser um no i didn't it looks like it though doesn't it yep but i put them up here makes it easier for the electrician that way they're not kneeling down in the insulation just trying to think ahead and make it easy on them so i've got 10a terminated there 12a terminated there 220 amp circuits and 16b is still feeding the refrigerator so some of them are ready to go and some of them actually won't be used anymore for example 16b that is the storeroom lights off the carport and the plugs out there and it was also the small appliance counter circuit over here so they're going to disconnect the refrigerator and what this circuit will terminate right there so there's three of them there's three more over here to my left your right way over there circuit 10a a couple more here and these are receptacle circuits lighting circuits but the point is the electricians can come up here and start running wire i'm going to actually have a list for them from 12a do this from 10a do that go to here go to there they love it that way we can just go down the list check each item off and at the end of the day the list is complete i know we haven't missed anything it's a good way to do it all right gang it was cool showing you everything in the attic super excited that all that is done we're back downstairs and you can see all our receptacles or all our boxes are ready to go for our electrician over here we used an adjustable depth box this is what it looks like a lot of people never heard of them before available at home depot or lowe's and check it out you can zip it in or out depending on the thickness of your backsplash so we'll have counters here some kind of tile and over there as well so we're going to wrap up this video so make sure you get that ground wire hook it up to your like button first for safety then the neutral and then the hot 120 volts in the us 230 everywhere else i guess make sure you don't burn up your monitor leave us a comment ask a question down below we'll try to answer it for you and subscribe if you haven't already that would mean the world to us and we will see you on the next one [Music] so i'm gonna just cut those crap you good i'm good i'm safe now what

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Length: 32min 6sec (1926 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 28 2021