I am a contractor with over 30 years of experience in multiple trades, and I just wanted to compliment you on your very nicely demonstrated procedure. You articulate very well and your information is "refreshingly accurate"..a real benefit to people who would consult such videos of guidance on how to do something themselves, particularly if they have little or no experience at "do-it- yourself" tasks. Thank you, and Cheers to you, my friend!

Its funny watching those videos as an European. Cardboard homes. Try doing that in here :P

I'm a 35 year electrician and this video shows an excellent example of how to add an electrical outlet behind a TV. Very well done!

I have been watching youtube for over 20 years this is a great demonstration on how to add an outlet

I wish you would’ve shown the part most important to me…how you got the new Romex to the original outlet once you ran it through the two studs.

Your videos are always so informative, Scott. You not only show HOW to do the project but you also show WHAT tools work best to minimize my aggravation as a DIYer. Thanks so much.

Am I the only one wondering how you got the new wire up and into the existing box? You skipped that part. Overall a very good and concise video. I like your work.

Great video. I recommend fishing the Romex through the original outlet first. Push all the Romex through the outlet, the studs, then using a line to pull it up to the new outlet hole. This saves the effort of blindly pushing the Romex into the original outlet.

That's fantastic! It just didn't occur to me that pulling off the baseboard was the way to hide the rework. Much appreciated. 😊

Thanks for this! New homeowner and new to electrical home edits and have two mounted TVs I need an outlet for! Love seeing all the contractor and electrician seal of approvals on here easing my mind that I won’t accidentally burn my house down over time❤️❤️❤️

I'm not 100% sure I'll end up moving an outlet for my application, but wanted to see a few videos on how to do it just to have it as an option. This is by far the simplest and most clear to follow video I've seen. Thanks.

Just wow. So informative, and looks great. Love that it all is safe, and no "shortcuts".

I appreciate you highlighting all of the tools you use and the links where to buy them. Nothing is more frustrating than seeing a great video but not knowing where the buy the necessary tools to make the job easier. Another great video Scott.

Beautifully filmed and edited; it's all business, no cutesy stuff. Excellent educational standards. I am subscribed!

Great video! One tip as a painter I can offer is use “painters putty” in place of caulk for the nail holes.

I was thinking there is no way you can do this without ripping up the wall. And you did it. I am stunned 😳

One tip WRT the second wall plate you showed for HDMI, etc. cables is that if you use two, run a long piece of string between them for running extra cables later. Make it at least twice as long as the gap + 2 feet, with a loop knot tied in the middle. This can then be used to easily pull cables between the two holes.

Nice work, I have been putting off running wire behind the wall mounted tv for over a year and this path just encouraged me to go ahead and complete it

Excellent video & workmanship. In my 50+ years as electrician, I:ve done thousands of similar installs & you layout the work perfectly.

Very nice video. I’m glad to don’t spend several minutes showing all the mundane steps, but rather you kept the flow of the essential information moving at an enjoyable pace. Super well done Sir. BTW, I use spackling to cover those brad holes and Alex Plus “paintable” caulk. Wish you well with your UKposts channel. 🇨🇦💝

Nice work, easy to follow! Thanks for the tip on removing the base trim, that is the best time saver.

You are a wonderful teacher! I knew almost nothing about electrical aspects & after your clear, ego-less explanation, I know I could do this. Thanks!

Nice job showing the difference on how to be able to gather all the wiring and the spacer on the plus on screws.

I'm intriqued that the originating outlet has the grounds just twisted together, no wirenuts!! Have a house built around 1968, all the original outlets are that way. Whenever I've had the need to change an outlet, I'll replace all of them in a room, and make good ground connections. And WAGO 221's are the BOMB for this! Solid, fast, and easier than nuts.

This is actually a brilliant idea, versus cutting dry wall, and having to redo it all. Nicely done...

construction all my life. I'm 69 years old. done a lot of electrical. never would of thought of that nor never seen it. That was cool as hell

The cleanliness at the end 🤩. I can't think of a more beautiful thing

This is not easy

Really useful video. I recently wall mounted our TV with the plan to install an outlet behind it. That said, there are "in wall TV power kits" (LeGrand makes several) for behind the TV outlets which have you install two faceplates; one behind the TV with a receptacle that the TV (and soundbar if present) plug into, and one at outlet level near the floor with male prongs, and the two are connected in the wall cavity via a cord. You then run what's essentially a short extension cord from a nearby electrical outlet to the male prongs on the new floor outlet, which energizes the outlet behind the TV. Many of these kits include a non-electrical cord pass through molded into the faceplates for HDMI cables to game consoles, blu-ray players, etc. You wouldn't need to remove the trim, remove drywall screws, cut the strip of drywall away, cut power, remove and re-wire the existing outlet and the new outlet, reattach drywall and trim, spackle and repaint the trim, etc. You just need to cut two holes for the faceplates and fish the included in-wall cord from hole to hole. The one downside I can think of -- if you don't have a media center or other furniture below the TV, you'd see the short power cord running sideways from an existing outlet over to the new faceplate near floor level with male prongs. In theory, it's more expensive to buy one of these kits than buying an outlet but if you need to buy a trim pry tool, 15' of 12-2 romex, Wagos, wirestripper, etc. it will actually end up significantly cheaper for a DIYer on a budget. The only tools required would be a level and a drywall jab saw or multi-tool to cut out the holes for the faceplates.

I know the goal was not major paint or drywall repair, but just have to add, the look, fit, and finish of a recessed box can be so nice when it comes to TVs. Absolutely love them on my installs! Definitely great content from the perspective of a low voltage guy though.

Great video and so clear. I never thought to go behind the base board but genius. I unfortunately have the fireplace so I will have to cut some holes behind TV but cover up with redesign

11:57 -- Highly recommend filling those gaps with caulking especially if you have ant problems like I do Looks fantastic! Great work

Nice!! I was suspicious of the claim to be able to run this wiring without drywall repair or painting. But, I'd never even thought of going behind the baseboard like that. Very clever!

You made that look effortless!! Great job!! I actually have a spot in my living room that I have enough confidence to tackle now!! Thank you buddy!!!

You are the Man. The best installation person on you tube ,make the job so clean and Easy thank you

I use wago connectors because of your videos. Easiest, most useful way to wire anything. Thanks for a great video. Super useful.

You explained this so well I feel confidant I could pull this off by myself 😌

Outstanding! I have had his problem many times and did not have a simple solution like this. Thank you.

Excellent!! I just learned something new! not that I'll ever install one, but I'll know if whoever I hire is doing it right! thank you!!

Awesome! Great job! But we rarely have dry walls in our country. They're mostly made of concrete, bricks or CMUs. So it's much more harder to do the same job here. Thanks for the video!

This is great for situations where you don't have an outlet directly below your t.v. location. But the edge of the t.v. was directly above the outlet you pulled power from. So all you had to do was cut a j-bix sized hole behind the t.v. and run your new wire to your new j-box and outlet. Or you could have placed your new outlet on the other side of the stud from the old outlet and drilled your hole through the stud at that location.

You did a great job there. Lucky to have drywall and studs. Most older houses here in UK would be plastered walls or perhaps dot and dab drywall so chasing out walls needed. 😳 Its also regs here to sleeve the earth wires so no bare conductors are showing. I like those cable protection inserts. Great idea. 👍🇬🇧

Another thing about this video, is that it show that's it possible. Which gives us a an incentive to call a professional to do it for us, if we are not comfortable to it ourself.

I have mounted many like this. However, I usually run romex thru back of lower outlet first then thru smaller holes in bottom of wall studs.Then it is easier to run the romex up thru the large space in wall and easy to grab at upper hole before installing new box. The wago do work well. Other than that, we both do the rest the same. Great video.

Nice video. In the UK we have noggins between the uprights in our stud walls which would make this a whole lot harder but I loved the approach of just removing the skirting board and doing the cleve work behind that. Great work but UK plug sockets are the best and a whole lot safer

Thanx for the video. That created an incredibly clean way to handle power cords and HDMI cables.

Awesome video! One tip I recommend is to start at the existing outlet and feed your wire down to the baseboards. Then pull it to the newly created outlet hole. Before you put the old work box in, feed the wire through the box and then place the box in the hole and secure. Doing this method is way easier and you get the perfect length of wire. He didn’t show how he got the perfect length of wire. If you do it his method you have to estimate how much wire you need because it’s way harder to feed the wire coming the opposite direction into the tine hole in the existing outlet box. Let alone other wires coming into it. Outlet boxes also have built in strain relief(the angled plastic you push out of the way) so it makes it even more difficult to pull wires out of the box from the other direction which also makes it more challenging, if you do his method, trying to fish it up into the existing box. Long story short, save yourself time and frustration starting from the existing outlet and work to the new one.

Technically, when you put the piece of drywall back in place, you did drywall repair. Also, this fix only worked because your trim was tall enough for drilling and cutting the drywall. Under the very limited conditions, good work. I think I would have sealed around the drywall cut.

Make sure to check your local state requirements for how high the cable needs to run from the floor. In California its 16 inches to prevent electrocution from standing water. The Romex cable I coated but I wouldn't take any chances.

Simple and elegant solution. Clear and useful tips/informations. Thank you for the nice work and video! :D

I have one of those trim pullers. Didn't know about the side to side motion. I have a hard time getting it to go behind stuff though. Had to get something thinner to get it pulled out enough first. My house doesn't have drywall and it doesn't have baseboards. I've got plywood panels over tongue & groove boards & studs are not spaced 16" apart. Some of them don't even go all the way to the ceiling. I found spots where there were at least three 2x4s stacked on top of one another. My friend just put drywall in his house (behind the TV) so this should come in handy for him though. This is very useful. Thank you! The tools you used should come in handy on m renovations.

Easy guard is a cool addition. One of my first thoughts was the risk of shooting a trim nail into the wire.

The most difficult part of this, at least for me, is how to get the romex from the floor up to and through the box. I also think opening a hole in the box already in the wall may not be easy. You kinda skipped those steps.

I like how you took precautions for safety with the romax covers in the studs. Only paint would be on the trim which really could just be filled in with caulking. Nice video

I wish the UK electric code was as easy as this ... brilliant job I have adopted your amazing video to done my job many thanks 😊

I'm amazed how in the US internal walls are made with studwork and drywall. No wonder they blow over when there's a bit of wind.

good video. I never thought about doing it behind the baseboards, too. One thing I got confused on was how you pulled the wire up from the baseboard to the old outlet. Those are closed boxes and you didn't show that final step in running the wire, which was the only one I didn't know how to do.

Beautiful work. I think I could do this. I'll keep you posted if I bump into anything. Thanks.

Great video, and Amazing skills showing that if you take your time, anyone could do a job like this just as good as any other contractor..

I live in a Florida home with Romex wiring and I've dropped wires down the wall to add outlets. Personally I think removing the baseboards going to create more work especially when it's been caulked and painted. To each his own.

Awesome job! In a perfect world the upper outlet would be in the same bay as the lower so you could just run fish tape to pull it up. I love Wago connectors. They are so great and are game changers. Thanks for posting.

This kind of detail is what really makes a space come alive. Awesome

You highlight some great products i didn't even know existed making a pig tail with those connectors for instance compared to the old style wire nuts NICE and the hole guards I am definitely getting some of those before my next electrical project, Top notch video very informative.

I was just going to ask the same thing as Clyde; what do you do if there's insulation in the wall? Often the wall is insulated, because TVs are likely to get mounted on an outside wall. But this was a very cool idea and I'm impressed with how clean the results were. Yeah, you'll have to fill the nail holes and touch them up with matching paint.

I've run into blocks between the studs inside the wall before. That can definitely make the job take longer. Had to get an extra long spade bit to deal with that.

I'm supposed to get ready for work but I'm watching this video. LOL! Nice work.

What a slick way to run those wires. I learned several new techniques from your video. Thank you!

The only thing I would add is that when you're cutting thru the drywall do not go too deep as the outlet might be wired from below and not above you don't want to hit the wire feeding the outlet. Also in the case where there are 6 wires check the way the outlet is setup, it might be split and being fed by 2 separate circuits. IE each of the outlets might have its own breaker.

Looking forward to this

Thanks so much for this.. I wanted to do this but figured that I would need to hire an electrician! Appreciate that you are saving me money!

Nice work, all in all! A year late to the party, but if I may offer a drywaller's pro-tip: building codes generally require that drywall sheets be secured with fasteners around all perimeters, including the bottom of the sheet. After cutting out the bottom strip, the "new bottom" of the original sheet was not secured in this video. Not a big deal with an interior wall (that is, not any outside-facing or building perimeter wall) within your own dwelling, as long as you're prepared to live with the potential of having a noisy, rattling wall at the slightest vibration. Easy fix: if you were to make your cut below the trim line just slightly more than demonstrated, you could easily secure the sheet and hide the required fasteners. Another 1/2" would be more than enough. Snap a quick chalk line as a guide in lieu of using a trowel as a spacer. *_Also, a critical safety concern for HDIY'ers out there:_* Do be advised that this method is not acceptable on partition walls and ceilings that separate individual tenant spaces (condos and apartments, for most people typically, but also commercial spaces). These "fire walls" absolutely must be properly secured with fasteners in order to ensure that the wall is resistant to modest explosions and that, at a minimum, any joints or seams are taped and any fasteners mudded at least once. This is needed in order to seal joints and penetrations against any ingress / egress of hot gases, other ignition sources, and toxic fumes crossing from one tenant space to the other in the event of a fire on either side of the wall. Additionally, if you are opening a two-hour fire resistance rated wall (typically being two sheets of 5/8" thick Type X drywall), _you may not_ have joints or seams stacked directly on top of each other. The top-most ("finished") drywall layer must overlap any joints in the bottom, base layer by between 12" to 24", depending on your local building and fire codes, in order to achieve the two-hour rating required by law. This necessarily invalidates using the baseboard trick to hide joints in your finished layers as demonstrated in the video, and will require additional work to achieve a paintable finish. *_These are life-safety items and are not optional! If there is any doubt in your mind about how to proceed when considering alterations to a fire resistance rated wall, consult a professional and allow them to assume responsibility for any liability!_* Consider relocating your entertainment center, if possible, to a less sensitive interior wall. Less work. Less mess. Less headache. Less liability. (Not only that, your neighbors will thank you for not hanging loud audio equipment on your shared partition wall!😜) [Edits for minor spelling & grammar corrections.]

Depending on your TV, the wall mount, and the plug for the TV you made need a media box rather than a regular old work box. They are deep and sunken in 2 gang boxes that allow you to mount a receptacle and the low voltage pass through wall plate you showed at the end side by side. It's needed if you dont have enough room behind the TV if its mounted nearly flush to the wall.

I love the video overall. It was slick and easy to follow. I also am REALLY glad to know about Easy Guard and the trim pooling tool. Thanks! I do however two items of concern. First, you didn't show what (for me) is the hardest part of the operation and one that I don't know how to do. How did you snake/pull the romex up into the old outlet junction box? That can be a little bit of a pain without the drywall in the way. To the best of my knowledge, this was (quite literally?) the only thing you didn't show in the video. Second, electrical codes. Isn't Romex supposed to be secured to the studs? And secured within 8-12" of the box at the TV? I don't think it is supposed to be just running up, inside the wall up to the TV outlet you installed. Please advise.

I am not even planing such a project and yet I watched the whole thing out of curiosity. Nice workmanship

Excellent demonstration! I’m ready to get a few of these done.

The video says to run 12/2 Romex. However, you should use whatever size wire is in the box you're extending from. If you have 14 gauge wire in the current box, then run 14/2 Romex. When he gets to where he pulls the receptacle out of the old box and pulls on the wires, you'll see the current wires have a yellow sheathing on them. So, his current box is 12 gauge. 14 gauge Romex has a white sheathing.

Intro: no dry wall cutting. Proceeds to cut dry wall 😂😂

Love the Amazon link, I do pretty well I figuring out how to learn things but finding the right tools is a challenge

So apparently I am behind the times in electrical installations. (DIY’er) I am excited to see these push in connectors, turns a conundrum into a easy peasy work load. Thank you.

On this and some past videos, you're always working on interior walls. Things get a lot more complicated when it's an exterior wall with insulation and VB. Would like to see how you address that at some point. Thanks!

Pretty classic approach to this problem. Doesn't work so well when the wall you'd need to drill through is concrete with just drywall and plaster over it. Conduit time...

I see from these videos that I need an oscillating saw (never knew what they were for) and nail gun. Didn't know what Romex is when first mentioned. Liked the trim remover. I had a helper remove some with screwdriver and really damaged the wall.😢 Didn't know trim was caulked. Lots to learn.

I loved the way you explained how to do the job. I have little experience in electrical. I will use this video on my Laptop & replay as much as possible until I have it right. Thank you for sharing. David C

It looks easy enough. Maybe I missed this, but how do you push the wires up from the baseboard to the old outlet?

In the USA, Yellow jacket wire is 12 gauge and used for higher amp circuits, usually in the kitchen for powering toasters, blenders, can openers, mixers, etc. You can use white jacket 14 gauge wire instead just like the wires entering the box below. It won’t change amount of power to the tv, it’s just overkill. Nice job!

Nice job and you showed every step. Thank you. So much cleaner!

I had no idea that "wago"s existed. Now I see that's the WAY TO GO! I have a 4 gang box with ooodles of size 12 wires and the big red nuts crammed in. I had to push against the opposite wall to get the faceplate flush so I could screw it in place. Then the nightlight quit working after a couple of weeks. I've been dreading taking it out... now I believe I'll swap nuts for wagos, put in a GFCI outlet (more of the heavy wires) in that spot and use a disposable" plug in nightlight. Thanks so much!

So when you ran the wire up the wall there wasn't a toe going from both studs?

That's all fine and well if they are interior walls. If they're exterior walls with blow-in insulation covered with plastic vapor barrier it gets a whole lot more difficult. It would also be nice if you showed how you fished the wire up into the existing box. I like the technique but in some walls it won't be that easy. I see I'm not the only one with this concern.

Hi, Very complete and detailed video! I just wanted to point that the electrical outlet behind the tv should be placed on a different spot because once you put the tv back up, the power cord will be on the way of the arms and the Tv will not go all the way against the wall. Once again very Professional job , detailed, clean and easy to understand

It is instructive that you're willing to run the Romex up into the wall without stapling to the studs, which code would require. I guess any port in a storm. Gives me some enthusiasm for a project I have been putting off.

I would love to see you do this project in an older house with plaster and lath walls.

I must be amazingly unlucky because EVERY time I run wires through a wall (which I've done many, many times), I encounter blocking between the studs. Funny how UKpostsrs never seem to have that problem :-)

Love the wagu connectors! Saved my but on a smart switch install.

I did something similar but I did so by adding an outlet directly below the TV. It was only one or two studs away from an existing outlet. I drilled a hole through the studs from the new hole and the existing. I then added an outlet behind the TV directly above the new one (nothing between these two). Basically accomplished the same thing but by adding a hole that I covered with a new outlet. It had the added benefit of having extra outlets for sometimes used devices like a laptop to to the TV.

Hey, I think it’s great that you’re considering hiding wires. However, it’s important to keep in mind that there are some safety concerns to be aware of. For example, if the new owner of the house replaces their baseboards and accidentally hits a live wire with a nail, it could be dangerous. So, it’s important to take the necessary precautions to ensure that the wires are safely hidden and out of harm’s way.

Make sure you trace the BACK of the box, NOT the front so ears can grab the drywall 😊

THANKS SO MUCH, YOU HAVE LEARNED ME SOMETHING THAT I DID NOT KNOW. SAVED ME A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT.

This video was so well done, excellent workmanship and made it look so easy!

I mean if the outlet is below the tv, can’t I just run the wires straight up? Yes the outlet behind the tv will be off to the side but it’s still gonna be behind the tv.