How To Add an Outlet to an Existing Circuit | Closet

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[@jersey07042]

I don't care what anyone says about this video. Most of us are just looking for some guidance. Clipping off those wings on the outlet seems so simple but OMG that was the best. Thanks again keep doing your thing!!!

[@jimmyvila4443]

This is the best instructions on KZbin straight to the point and not over complicated

[@DreamptLife]

I rewatched this over and over, step by step and it was exactly what I needed. I really appreciate this video, thank you!

[@sparky_izzy]

No problem! 👍🏽

[@wraith0127]

Can I add a tip when cutting holes in sheet rock? Drive a drywall screw partially inside the cut lines, leaving yourself a handle to pull the cut piece out after its cut 😊

[@8Jallin]

I like that. Thank you

[@richieroll]

Or it's more insulation 😂

[@gregre052]

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[@doylecole]

I appreciate the detail from beginning to end. The speedy view can be slowed down to exactly how everything was done. I like Alternate way of wiring the hot and the neutral. I use repair tape to wrap the screws before closing the box. Excellent work!

[@bakermartin8089]

Amazing. I'm installing the exact same vacuum into a closet. This is bang on. Thank you

[@ChrisMorrisW]

Thanks for covering so many details! I feel competent to add an outlet to an existing circuit now.

[@paultech9385]

You got the tools, the knowledge and the technique! Tip: take a piece of tape and make a catch bowl below the cut. Makes cleanup easy.

[@SnakrGarage]

Guys, I found the best explanation to connect two outlets. Thanks!

[@tmro5356]

Thanks for the tutorial! Looking forward to doing this for an outlet at the back of a TV mount.

[@jon-patrickw.7969]

Izzy...I love this video brother. Don't listen to these idiot keyboard critics that have nothing better to do with their time than to pretend your video is the only source of information on the internet. Your video gave a majority of the info I needed and I was able to search for answers to the other questions I had. I appreciate you making this video, brother. Helped a ton.

[@rags9er]

Appreciate this walkthrough. Very detailed and clearly spoken in the process. Hope your channel grows because I'm a new subscriber. 👍🏻

[@darrenwillis9611]

Excellent video. I used this video to help me add an outlet below my bar top. Excellent step by step instruction! Thanks!

[@anthonyconnor5073]

Great video. Easy to follow.

[@josephcoronado4249]

Thanks for the video, I will be adding an outlet up the wall for a mounted TV. And needed some verification on tying the hots and neutrals 😅

[@Pbenter]

I did this today with your help! Thanks!

[@commonla13]

Thank you for uploading this video. It helped me install an extra outlet in my garage. 🤜🏻💢🤛🏻

[@zanewallace9352]

Ive been looking for a video exactly like this one. Awesome tutorial!

[@albrown9527]

Nice and clean work

[@Velofire_21]

Thank u so much now i can quite stalling on my chore list !

[@TheHousedigs]

Great work and video!

[@sonyaborgen9738]

very well presented. I think I might just be able to do this.

[@marcbrown538]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

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Good job just what I was looking for 👍👍

[@vince6829]

Nice job!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@sparky_izzy]

My pleasure!

[@brianwarner308]

awesome video!! you are becoming my go to for this stuff!

[@jimholloway1785]

I really like your drawing that shows your original outlet and the new one you are installing and the wiring is VERY clear. I need to check your other videos because I want to change a single duplex outlet into a dual duplex out and it is not the last box in the circuit so I need to see how to continue to the other downstream outlets.

[@sparky_izzy]

You would need to shut off the circuit, remove the old box & undo all the wiring. Then get yourself a new 2 gang remodel box, cut out the old hole to the new dimensions of the 2 gang box. You would add “pigtails” to both new receptacle. Which is a 6-8” single black, white & ground to each receptacle. Then you hook up all the blacks together, all the whites together & all the grounds together with the proper wire nuts. Hope that makes sense. You gave me a video idea. If I come across this, I will make a video!

[@Lanita111]

​@@sparky_izzystop using wire nuts use wago connectors.

[@danielt1503]

Thank you , good job bro

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Thank you! 👍🏾🙌🏽🙏🏽

[@FatherFatherJohn]

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[@neveroddnoreven1553]

Good stuff

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great video

[@lesliemerrill5137]

Excellent video. Thanks so much. I feel confident I can do this on my own. And just FYI, I would also completely ignore the negative comments. I subscribed to your channel to learn more. Thanks again. 😊

[@toolsandtactics]

Awesome Job!

[@sparky_izzy]

Thanks!

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Great video!!! 😊

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[@geloone]

Bro thank you this helped me helped me a great deal

[@sparky_izzy]

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[@INTERNA9]

Wow!

[@mikecampa2499]

Awesome video and exactly what I plan to do for my closet in my office.

[@jaydee3046]

About your Kline tool: will a common neutral for 2 circuits cause a hit for both breakers?

[@vail8150]

Nice vid

[@illestofdemall13]

Good job overall, but I'd like to make a few points/suggestions. On the cut in box, those are integral clamps and meant to hold the NM cable (Romex) in the box. You aren't supposed to rip them off. Also, I find it easier to strip the wires before I put them into the box so I use an NM Cable stripper that strips 12-2 and 14-2.

[@sparky_izzy]

Appreciate the feedback, I have a love hate relationship with those clamps. I need to leave them on if they come with them 👍🏽

[@illestofdemall13]

@@sparky_izzy No problem. My method is to push the clamp in with my finger or flat head screwdriver enough to make it easier to get the romex in there.

[@Lanita111]

@@sparky_izzy do you know the wago 221

[@DebbieRigby]

What was the name of the wire that you use to connect the two outlets again? And did you say it needs to have six inches pulled out on either side? I really liked that you showed the whole process. Now i just need to go buy the materials.

[@sparky_izzy]

Yes, a MINIMUM of 6” from the back of the box to outside the box. The wire is called Romex (NM-B) Yellow is size 12/2 - rated for 20amps max White is size 14/2 - rated for 15amps max

[@ethanbethan]

Is the diagram at 6:40 accurate? It looks like that existing outlet was in the middle of a run. So aren't there are actually 4 black & 4 white wires being wire nutted together?

[@sparky_izzy]

Yes, you are correct. The diagram is just a reference on how it should be wired.

[@ethanbethan]

@@sparky_izzy Thanks!

[@brandonnguyen1748]

Where did you buy that stud finder? Thanks

[@sparky_izzy]

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[@Lanita111]

That diagram picture is wrong because it shows 2 hots 2 neutrals and ground you should also use the wago connectors.

[@juniorvanderwoude2645]

I have an exact situation as your segment is showing except the socket I would be attaching to is on the other side of a stud. How would you handle that? Hoping to be able to do this without cutting into sheet rock. Appreciate ideas.

[@sparky_izzy]

Off the top of my head, there are two options I can think of. One would be that you cut the sheet rock in order to drill a hole through the stud so that you can pull your wires The other option I’m thinking of is running up into the attic and over the stud and come back down to tap into the existing receptacle. Hope this helps.

[@juniorvanderwoude2645]

Thanks so much I really appreciate it.

[@paulwild4524]

if there are already 2 hots/2 neutrals connected to the receptacle, can you add a 3rd of each to add an outlet?

[@sparky_izzy]

You can add a 3rd wire. To do that, you would add “pigtails” to the receptacle. Which is a 6-8” single black, white & ground to the receptacle. Then you hook up all the blacks together, all the whites together & all the grounds together with the proper wire nuts. Hope that makes sense.

[@paulwild4524]

@@sparky_izzy Done! Thanks indeed

[@RonaldFerguson]

This is exactly what I need for one of my closets. Electrician quoted me $348 to do it. Yeah ... that ain't happening.

[@KellTaken]

Couldn’t you just use the existing black, white , and ground and just connect it to the receptacle by twisting the new added 14/2 with the existing one and doing a pig tail that way instead of adding a third wire I’m sure either way will work but just making sure 😊

[@crispxzero3860]

Is it the same process if i wanted to add a switch and light instead of another receptacle?

[@sparky_izzy]

To cut the box but the wiring is different.

[@mzepeda93]

Can I safely add an outlet from an ungrounded gfci plug? Would I follow these same steps but without the ground wire?

[@sparky_izzy]

Yes that will work, only if you connect the new outlet to the “load” side of the GFCI. Adding a GFCI takes care of the ungrounded problem. So if there is a ground fault, the gfci & any other outlets being fed by it on the “load” side will be protected by the GFCI & “grounded”.

[@mzepeda93]

@sparky_izzy thank you for your response. It's very much appreciated!

[@arturotorres6437]

How did you run the romex from one receptacle to the other receptacle? You said to run it & then it just magically was there but i don't know how 🤷‍♂️

[@heatherofthe7]

This is exactly what I was wondering! How the fuck did you get the Romax through the studs? Or are there no studs and you just went back to back. Kind of confusing.

[@sparky_izzy]

Back to back 👍🏽

[@billhandymanbill2775]

It was side next to side electrical boxes all with in the same 16” stud cavity so no 2x4 studs were involved. In fact, he made sure he was in the same stud wall cavity by using the yellow and magnetic stud finder which picks up on the metal steel drywall screws to show where the 2 stud locations were.

[@billhandymanbill2775]

You are correct about 2 incoming cables in the old box and one new cable leaving the box. I believe using the Romex connector inside the plastic box is a code an electrical violation. No need to use it.

[@jahmezis45]

How many outlets can you connect to the original outlet? Would i be able to add 2 additional outlets to the original one?

[@sparky_izzy]

You would have to check the amperage on that breaker. As long as you don’t exceed the breaker and wire rating.

[@jahmezis45]

@@sparky_izzy okay I'm not hooking anything heavy up just outlets to charge phones, run a CPAP machine etc my outlets are placed in weird areas in my room...

[@IsaacC20]

@6:47 Schematic for wiring the outlet.

[@jayflaggs]

Can you explain why there's one bare wire with no insulation on it? I was shocked to see that (no pun intended)

[@sparky_izzy]

That is a ground (non current carrying conductor) only the black & white wires carry current. No insulation needed for the ground wire.

[@jayflaggs]

@@sparky_izzy thanks, I've always seen the ground wire with green insulation!

[@sparky_izzy]

In conduit it has green insulation….in romex … it’s bare copper 👍🏽

[@fredilucha5554]

Jajajja there is a Oulet where you cut a hole for a new Oulet. Jus need back to back jumper jajajja

[@sparky_izzy]

Why are you watching it if you know how to do it? Lol

[@sereezyyy7068]

Can I just hire u instead?😂

[@MarkWickenheiser-yg7ny]

Hey Sparky, great video...........Thanks

[@WillyPark]

Thumbs Up for the bald head comment.

[@arazzengene]

no need to cut

[@dougwhiting6623]

Your video is well done, but I do have to point out that your drawing is incorrect. It shows 3 wires, including the pigtail wire, twisted together in one wire nut, you should have a total of 4 wires twisted together, otherwise there would be no need for a pigtail. If you minus the pigtail in your drawing you would now only have 2 wires, one would go on either side of the outlet, so you would not need the pigtail.

[@gfilipovich7760]

That diagram is inaccurate. You are connecting three hots, whites, and ground; not two. There are two existing romax coming in, not one. You are adding a third. And its very difficult if not impossible to see in that in the video, too fast and one of your existing black lines is caked over and looks white. Very hard to follow what you are doing. I think I know what you are doing, but I cant be sure.

[@Lanita111]

He should use the wago 221 lever nuts they are better than wire nuts.

[@PAPRITKO]

Yes, the diagram is inaccurate. That's why I'm confused and not sure if I can connect 3 hots, whites, and grounds. 😩 help, please.

[@joshuayallery]

Was it originally a series and he wired it as a parallel?

[@chansmovievlogchannel6037]

I’m not 100% sure what you’re trying to say, but since he put in a new box and only fed 1 romex into it, wouldnt the diagram be right? There was an existing box but he didn’t do anything with it

[@bigshot562]

@@chansmovievlogchannel6037I think because in the diagram it show only one romex coming in. Therefore you do not need to do a pigtail, u can just hook another romex to the existing receptacle and onto the next. What he’s doing in the video. There’s already two romex coming in and out from the receptacle

[@RuthGabaldwin-vn2jn]

It was ok when it started but then it went too fast.

[@jamesdenson9983]

Bro u moving to fast

[@brianwilliams4082]

Wow that’s so fast of a install that was terrible

[@domenicoielo7362]

Si e facile quando si tratta di carto n gesso tutto facile qua da noi tutto in muratura e più complicato bisogna rompere