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Wiring the Home Addition
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" Now your Christian. Keep raping a -- they don't Bob well we've got the master bedroom here and it's a pretty big room that body gets started what have you done already well Bob we've pulled two home runs one for the lighting circuit and one for the receptacle circuit the chairs are going to be -- main switching area why do you need two separate. We're home runs or circuits for the -- With such a like Roman in new high hats and any damp -- high hats and track lighting that they want and I have to they're recessed in recent sale yes yeah. When you've got that many specialties in my blood -- exactly all right keeps the lights from dimming when used in jet equipment. And this will be a what -- to report switches here four switches -- in -- at 48 inches that's the standard -- for 48 it's a standard OK but Steve this room is about twenty feet. By I think it's twelve year relative to plywood maybe fourteen over there. What does the code requires you would terms of receptacles how many do you have but -- well they want receptacles seated twelve foot senate's. Twelve foot to center around the room along any wall it's not for a broken -- go away OK. So what we're doing over here that means that you got a six foot extension cord or you're gonna hit lines to gain weight or would it light fixture around lamp. -- TV or stereo you have a cyclical on the back -- any spot on the wall. URD looped wire overhead. From the right switch over there to this wall right correct we -- what's happening over here well -- bath beating on the opposite side of the Roman with DG cheap now what I rewire around the wrong. So that we can. Not switched its jackets. Those receptacles will be switched so that you can walk into the room and turn out of -- yeah leper exactly. How do you actually yeah. Well splice it. Resting code wants is a staple within eight inches of a blocked off. And that of course is the code requirement. Hope you have made a mistake are we need a quarter inch of insulation. Inside the box. So we're going to keep a little middle thumb mark again you have my insulation I believe they're vinyl coating BR -- out of vinyl coating that's correct. What are the three wires that you've gotten. Well we have a ground alliance. Is actually what they call me why but it's actually -- We have at. A bare ground -- at the white neutral. I'm when he used the black wire -- constant feed around Iran and the red wire is going to be out switched receptacle IC. Which is called pig tail. The receptacle that we're going to end up footing here only has one screw for a ground -- Keep -- ground continuous through the little we have to splice it together and take up what we call the pig -- that's electrical receptacle. And we do the same well. The lights. We also have to pig tail witnesses -- switched receptacle we have to pig tail the black wire. And the red. What will village will. Break a tab on the receptacle which will isolate it -- receptacle from the bottom half. And the red will control the top half from the switch and the black will be constantly hot. The red light -- switch the top half the receptacle. You know tuck the wires in nice and tight. So when they put the sheet rock on and cut out the box when it collides. And now what we have left here is we have a neutral. The ground. Constant feed and the switch for the top of the receptacles great."
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