How To Add An Outlet To A Finished Wall

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Wow super very good idea thank you so much bro congratulations ❤🎉🎉

Wow Amazing Skills. Thank you for your videos.Always something to learn.
Please continue doing what you do Best ,now I can do things the right way 👍

He made the dry wall removal look easy. If your home is older (mine is 40 years old) be prepared to replace the drywall. Mine was very brittle.

Nice tutorial!

I’m putting in a powered bidet and needed a new GFI outlet. This was incredibly helpful. As a bonus, I get to buy some new tools for the project which I always love.

excelente job🤩

I need that stud finder!

Check both sockets in case they are on different circuits. Just to be safe. Also, if you can find the screws, you can loosen the drywall and slip thin metal penetration plates so no one else later drills into the romex.

Great video and great idea!! I'm going to use this technique to install 2 more receptacles on my garage work bench. Thank you so much!!

Code is wire needs to be 6 inches or more from the box AND you need to wrap any outlet with electrical tape in a metal box, to prevent arcing DO NOT BACKSTAB your outlet. This guy is not an electrician.

Especially using a good commercial outlet, why not use the screws to continue the wires rather than the extra connectors? Now I understand the ground is a different issue because the outlet doesn't have multiple connections for ground.

Oh, I agree with others that I actually learned something very useful, even though rewired multiple houses already, so thanks for this.

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.

Watching you use all of these very specific tools has made me realize that I need to just hire someone who already owns all of these tools. Thanks for saving me time and energy trying to do it myself! ❤

That’s some gangster sh*t

The thing is, I've rewired a half a dozen houses I personally owned (with permits, the whole thing) but they were all over 100 years old so your video just seemed so easy-peasy to me. Try finding studs when you don't have drywall, but lathe & plaster. So much fun. Or when the studs are not equally spaced. Or when there is other cross-brace framing going on? Or when one side of the wall has 2×3 or 1x "framing" with a gap between it and the wall you are working on so that even when you think you have fished around and found a stud there is a void between it and the wall you are working on. Pre-1924 homes are So. Much. Fun.

In general, fine, but there was no need for the extra long drill bit in this case with the wall essentially open. If you had used a shorter spade drill you could have kept the drill bit parallel to the wall making it easier to thread the wire without snagging.

I'm a first year electrical apprentice and I'm blown away as to how easy this is.

What if someone installs taller base molding in an upgrade someday?

@8.30 – instead of connecting your pigtail wires to the WAGO first, then having to wire up the outlet while cramped down on your knees, connect the pigtails to the Outlet first and THEN connect the to the WAGOs

I was really expecting you to run the wire behind the baseboard instead of through the studs. Color me pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for sharing done this many times just gotta miss the nails when drilling, and I will say(Wagos) as quick and easy convenient as everybody realizes they are, they are no better than quick wire which has the potential to fail under loads because of the way they’re connected inside the connector , you can’t beat twisting your wires together tight and use a wire nut safer connection. thanks for sharing.⚡️💡🤠👍

I wish you would say what size wire that you used.

Super informative!