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I’m an electrician with 48 years experience and was still impressed. Good job.

Industrial electrician here - this tutorial was brilliant. It’s so annoying when someone shows how to run wire and they have a big ol basement under it to run it through - ya obviously that’s easy if you got that but most people don’t. The trim trick and even pre-installing the connector was very clever and as someone who does work on his own house I really appreciate it - thanks and bravo! 👏🏻

You are literally a life saver! I’m going through tough times as a teenage girl and my parents are going through a divorce, and my mom has not the first clue on how to do anything with basic home repair. I thought I would just learn all of this myself! Thank you!

As an experienced craftsman and past electrician I watched your video expecting a train wreck/ hack job. Boy was I surprised. You did an excellent job! I will be adding you to my list of people to recommend. Great work!

Once in a while we bump into a video so informative we cannot but think every video should be made in the same way. This video is simply packed with tricks and useful info. Awesome!

This is, without a doubt, one of the best videos I've watched on home work/remodeling. Well explained without all the added unnecessary blather. Thank you.

This is the best electrical tutorial I have ever seen. I have been an electrician for over 16 years and I usually don't recommend people do their own electrical, but from now on I am going to direct them to your chanel.

As a licensed plumber, I felt compelled to watch this to the end, because us trades need to know EVERYTHING about all the other trades right! I'm glad I did because wow, you explained all this very clearly, and the good tips were coming fast and furious! I'll use this some of this knowledge somewhere I'm sure, maybe in my own trade. Thanks!

Thank you for vacuuming the open bays out before you started the work. It's what I do. I see so many SLOBS just leave everything. I had to go behind one of my corner kitchen cabinets to run a wire and found coffee cups, rags, actual garbage. I felt like contacting the contractor who did that work... to come pick up their garbage. Being clean is a quick and easy way to NEVER leave a tool behind.

handy tip .... NEVER ASSUME both outlets on a box are connected together ... test BOTH sockets on an outlet to ensure power is off ... the resulting shock when one finds out someone wired 2 different circuits into one socket is enough to make you never make that assumption ever again

This is probably the best do-it-yourself video I have seen on UKposts yet. And not just that but all of the comments I have read have provided as much information as the video. And no flame wars. Great!

You have made me think that I will be able to add some outlets myself. Thank you.

6:28 all these years and I never considered attaching the NM clamp to the cable first, before installing it in the box. Learn something new every day.

As an electrician I am genuinely happy to see nothing scabby here. Well done

That's a nice technique, I have used it several times over the years. Nicely demonstrated. I have a pro tip for you. When you use an old work box for a new outlet, many times the cover plate doesn't meet flush with the wall - there can be a small gap between the cover plate and the wall. When this happens, you can avoid this gap by breaking off the tabs (ears with loops) on the top and bottom of the outlet. These outlet ears are scored so that they are easy to break off - the outlet is designed for this. You can see the top ears clearly at 9:26 in the video. When you break those tabs off, the remaining top part of outlet will then set closer to the wall, in between the blue tabs on the top and bottom of the electrical box, which hold the box to the wall on the edge of the hole in the drywall. This allows the outlet to be seated closer to the wall and the plate will also seat closer to the wall, eliminating the gap.

Doing your work behind the trim is genius

Residential electrician here. BEST UKposts tutorial I've come across. He didn't miss a thing for old work! In a perfect world, a romex staple would be placed below the box to secure the wire, but it's not a perfect world. This however, in my opinion was a perfect install. PS We dont use wago connectors because they're expensive lol

HVAC mechanic with 20+ years experience here. The way he connected the box connector to the wire first and used it to fish through the box is brilliant. I will be using that trick in the future for hard to get at boxes.

Really nice job, and great video. I'm a 67 yo electrical engineer and do my own home improvements including finishing my basement. That's a clever trick to take the wiring down to the baseboard. Nice job describing the potential gotcha's like stud holes where your trim nails will go, clipping the old trim nails instead of yanking, and strain relief/protection on the cable going into the metal box.

literally in the 1st 50 seconds he answered every question I had about the video.

I do love watching someone who knows what they are doing and can explain while they work. May you live long and prosper!

Brilliant!!! I'm a retired master electrician with almost 60 years experience - why did I never think of this????? Many thanks!

A good man knows his own limitations, a great man admits them and refers you to a great caulk guy! Y'all helped me wire and seal my new kitchen! Thanks guys!👍

I love when someone makes a video that is clear and clever (watch alot of car fix videos). Too many guys don't carefully explain the steps - this guy is fantastic!

I've been a contractor 30+ years. I wasn't sold on this process at first. But this guy covered all the issues. I'm impressed and can back him up. Thanks for not being a hack- good job!

I was watching with interest as you dangled the metal tape measure over the live side of the original outlet :D

I liked this. I have done this. The most pleasing thing to me is telling people to be consistent.. vertical or horizontal with the plate screws. That's not just OCD, it is a professional look.

You deserve as much viewership and recognition as my boy Jeff over at ‘Home RenoVision’. Keep up the good work, you’re helping a lot of folks out.

33 year electrician here. Great video! I also never considered removing base board to do that type of install. What a great idea and so much easier to fix than drilling out holes in the drywall!

The second outlet protrudes past the finish plate because the four ear tabs weren't broken off where they contact the blue box. Break them off so the outlet is at the same depth as an outlet whose ears contact the drywall. Don't use an inch drill bit so close to the end of a stud, especially if the wall is load bearing. Use a half inch bit.

Very nice tutorial. The wire couplers looked cool so had to slow down that part haha.

You just blew my mind. I was getting sick of cutting drywall and drilling through the stud and then muddying sanding texturing and painting this just saves so much time you are awesome

I've been doing this stuff for over 50 years (as a DIYer) and I have to tell you, I learned SO MUCH from watching this. You are my new hero! Thank you!!

I appreciate that you acknowledge you are not great at caulking and refer to another channel. (Regardless if you are affiliated or not). This gives you MORE credibility in my opinion. Great video.

That's awesome sir! Thanks for the share. I already learned something new today and it's only 730am!

Nice! I've been doing this kind of stuff for 65 years and I still learned something - good job!

Been an electrician for 40 years and a contractor for 30. Never thought of this. Now I want to buy and learn how to use a brad nailer. Great job!

I’m not afraid of having to do a little mudding, caulking and painting but, OMG; this tip is brilliant. I’m now imagining never running out of outlets. The Husband isn’t convinced but I’m getting myself a WAGO kit and fixing a bunch of stuff myself. Done waiting.

Your job is amazing, unlike the other so called “electricians”.

Removing the baseboard is genius. So glad I found your channel.

Ive been looking for a video like this for MONTHS! Not one other video had the idea of removing the trim! I didn't think of that and now I know I can do what I need to without a professional! Thanks!

Clean and very well done. I'd even say that this is cleaner than some electricians would even try. I appreciate the methodic, organized, clean way you demonstrated this work. 5 stars.

Hi, I'm a British Electrician and I watched out of interest to see the difference between our system and yours. So apart from the voltage (ours being 230v ac) I thought I heard you say you used a 12 guage or 3mm cable, where we use either a 2.5mm + 1.5mm cpc or ground in your case for a ring main system or a 4mm + 1.5mm cpc for a radial system. Our colours are different too, we use Brown for live, Blue for Neutral and we use a green/yellow sleeve for our bare cpc, which you appear to omit. Appart from that the obvious back box and socket types was the fitting you used to protect the cable entering the box, yours being a solid fitting with a locking ring, which is, in my opinion superior to the rubber grommits we use. If any of your viewers are curious about British electrical systems they should look for Artisan Electrical on UKposts. I really enjoyed your video, though👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

If you hear a loud bang this weekend around Palm Beach county Florida. That's me trying to do this and forgetting some of the steps .👍👍👍 Great video 👍👍👍

Hard to express how terrific this video is. No wasted time, everything shown and explained. The standard for UKposts.

Excellent! I've done work like this in my home for the past 30+ years, and your videos are a must have for people like me. Thank you for your invaluable info for the home handy-man...Like me!

Good work. I’m a Journey Electrician and I learned something today. I do comercial and industrial on my day job. But I’m constantly doing side work in Peoples homes and businesses so always trying to pick up tricks on fishing wires especially across studs. I done that type of stuff but it was the baseboard trick that I thought was slick

I did electrical work in the navy, but avoiding drywall work is why I hesitated to do work on my home. This was super easy, and I'll be using this for sure.

I really like your stuff. Your videos are straight to the point with no wasted talk or stupid jokes and reveal so many little tricks that result in a professional job. As a landlord and handy man thanks for your videos.

Thanks for this! Gonna tie into an existing outlet to make a small bank of outlets behind a TV. Clever shirt BTW!

Was looking for something else, but this was brilliant and I will put it to good use in the future! Thank you for taking the time to share, you are an inspiration.

I been a sparky for 30 years and I still picked up a couple tricks here. I love the use of a magnet and the block to keep your cut level. Cheers Pal.

I did this to hide an alarm wire & thought I was a mad genius🤣 Best tutorial and love how you clean as you go. Excellent work!!

This was awesome! I just finished a project where I had to pull trim work off and I do a lot of electrical work, but I had never combined the two. Thank you so much!

Thanks for this video. Brilliant method and very clearly explained. I have one suggestion which you might want to consider. Before you reinstall the trim, it might be a good idea to caulk the cut lines on the reinstalled drywall piece. This would preserve the integrity of the air sealing in the house for those trying to maintain a tight house with low ACH. This caulking will be covered by the trim so it doesn't have to be pretty.

if you want to strengthen the box and keep it from damaging the drywall. only a very small amount of drywall is keeping the box secure. put some glue on 2 pieces of lath about 4" long and glue it to the top and bottom inside of the drywall where the tabs hold the outlet in place. I then use claps and let them dry. it will dissipate the stress from pulling the plug from the outlet.

I've been remodeling forever, yet I learned more tricks in this video than I've learned in a lifetime! Great, informative video.

Thanks so much for this video! I just finished adding an outlet, extending from a hallway through two closet walls into our mechanicals closet (GFCI) for a hot water recirculating system. I had to notch corner studs but everything worked as you showed. Enjoying the outcome!

Wow! Speaking as a 12 year old domestic farm animal that is also a first time home owner living with my clueless parents who don't know the first thing about DIY, your channel has been a real life saver! Thanks so much!

Never would have thought to go down through the base. Just saved me alot of drywall repair thank you!

I’ve done a lot of electrical work in my life but this is the first time I’ve seen this trick. It’s quite brilliant. Thank you for the edu.

Great video. The only thing i could add is flip-flopping the side of the stud you are drilling so that the angles of the holes create a wave pattern through the studs with the cable, making it much easier to pull 👍

I saw this video just before Christmas. Then I followed the process and added lights to a non-illuminated closet. Thank you for doing this video. I learned something and now we have seen the light in our closet.

If you live in an older house, I would confirm the studs are in the right place. I constantly find different spacing on mine, but it was originally built in 1918, so things get a bit wonky.

FANTASTIC content here. Using the trim to prevent this from being a drywall and paint project is like the drywall dust clouds parting and seeing the DIY blue sky for the first time. Love this!

Great video, you can tell you’re a professional. I’ve always wondered how to do this

Yeah, I did this about 6 inches off the floor. Wish I saw this video before and saved myself hours of extra work.

Good video! One tip, when using old work boxes you can remove the ears off the outlet so the outlet recesses better into the box and its cover will sit flush. Ears are useful on new work boxes so you can get the outlet stable against drywall, especially if the box is recessed a little. On old work boxes, the box itself has ears for that stability so you don't need the extra set on the outlet - and the box accommodates this with the center being recessed a 1/8 inch from the ears on the box corners. The *de-eared* outlet will sit perfect in that recess allowing a clean cover plate flush on the wall.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS! I was literally going to bore 4 holes into my wall to do this and your method will literally save me days of drywall patching. 🥳

Ingenious and crafty. I need extra extension so bad since I moved in to my old fixer-upper home. Your video helps me out immensely. I don't have extra breaker space in the box and my electric loads are light (desktop pc and a light. Occasional vacuum cleaner) so this suits me PERFECT A+ 👍

Can’t appreciate this video enough. As an electrician one of my fav things to do is cringe at diy guys on youtube doing electrical. I did not cringe once during this video and even learned a new trick. For people looking for an old work box at the store, it is often called a cut in box

What a great video. This is one of the best do it yourself videos I've ever watched. Thank you

So i just did this a couple months back....if I could, I would recommend anytime you're going through a stud like that with a drill, to bore holes for the romex, use a 90° adapter with a 1/4" end spade bit that works with impacts. You can get the bit more horizontal and don't have to lay down and push super hard at an angle. And I recommend Spyder Stinger bits. 🙂 Good video bud. Edit: I'm not saying the adapter or an installation driver (What I have, a Milwaukee M12 with multiple driving bits) is the BEST way to go about it.... I'm just simply saying that in my experience, putting holes in old work, a 90° adapter or installation driver is a great tool to have in your back pocket.

Great video! Did this exact thing but my walls had insulation so it took a bit more finagling. I found out my existing outlet already had another outlet chained off of it. The builders did the speed connector/backstab. I took those out and combined all 3 outlets into a wire nut with pig tail.

Wow! That was a beautiful job you did! Loved all the neat tips like raising up the holes in the stud so the nailer did not hit it accidentally. Pro tips and much appreciated. The rewiring was masterful. Wago is the way to go! In every electrical application, Wago is reusable, easily removable, easy to install, and durable. Even in van conversions, this is the right electrical connector to use. One tip on your video - Newbies to electricity like me, need you to go slower on the rewiring of the old socket. A bit complicated. I had to slow it down to speed 25 to see what you were doing. It would have helped a lot if you had gone real slow on this tricky section and explained it slowly too. This can lead to major disasters if not done accurately the first time. So please, for this sort of area, slow down a lot so we all understand. Most of us are DIYers not Pros. Just so others know... there is an air gun nail remover by Air Locker (buy the driver kit with spare driver) on Amazon for $58 and if you connect it to a small air compressor (Porter Cable 6 gal 150 psi pancake type is enough) you can shoot those nails out easily from reverse side. Handy tool for pallet and wood salvaging as well. Nice to have. You can reuse lots of old discarded wood this way. I would shoot out the existing nails then reuse the holes for new nails. The Air Locker AP7000 weighs 2 lbs and costs $58 with spare driver, whereas the Haupt runs $44, weighs 4 lbs, and you cannot replace the driver. Both need 70 - 120 psi minimum to run. The 150 psi is plenty.

Well done!! Pretty straight forward for most homeowners to DIY! Your channel is an absolute pleasure to watch as you convey all the information clearly and concisely. No filler words nor any gab just to fill up air time!!! Your production is on par with a professional broadcast and you should be commended for putting out such a polished product!!!

Now this is a video! Straight to the point, logical and clean! Thank you, great info here!

First time home owner and I wish all UKposts DIY videos have the same quality and informative content. I felt like I stole some info. 10/10

so much detail dude, good on ya, love the video, everyone should do so much description it is very helpful

There’s always something in your videos that shows a little easier way to do things. 😊

I've been an electrician for 30 years. I'm also a rehabber. The small details you covered surprised me. Your explanations are clear and concise. Most of the things you did, I thought, "Yeah, but are you going to do....oh." And you did the little things that I do. We should team up. Best regards, Mike

Great video and very well explained. Best one I have seen in a long time.

IBEW retired ten years. I like the tool you used to removed the trim. I never saw one before. Never did much residential work, but with with daughters who own homes I am always adding outlets or lighting in closed work situations. Nice video. Rather than using a plastic old work box I cut the nails off a plastic nail on box and drywall screw it to a stud.

Man, great tip. And thanks so much for the fast-forward sections and not including a bunch of extraneous information and jokes! The fast-forward still includes a lot of tips. Your video is so easy to watch and very informative....!

This was surprisingly good. I see a lot of contractors in the comment section complementing your work. I’m not a contractor but I’ve done enough electrical work to know that this job was very well done.

Thank you very much for the DYI video, it was AMAZING and specially for me who is a rookie working in home improvement projects.

It's so interesting watching different countries do their wiring and their style of outlets. In Australia we don't use a box behind the outlet. We rarely use solid core wire. We can put a lot more wires into our terminals on the outlet and all our outlets have switches to turn each outlet off.

I am one of the senior maintenance technicians at my job, and although I fall under the mechanic side of things, we all crosstrain into the other departments such as electricians and welders. Working in the industrial market, you'd think residential projects would be child's play, but that's not always the case. This channel provides exceptional advice that would otherwise be costly to hire out and this is one of the many channels that have been well thought out.

I have been using this common sense approach in these particular situations for 20 plus years. So I was very surprised by the number of comments as if this was a new technique. Thanks for posting this and helping out folks that otherwise have been obviously doing way to much work in the past for such a simple task! Great tutorial.

I worked electrical 4 years working for electricians wiring houses building houses as a journeyman carpenter never seen the idea of adding the nut on later to the Box great idea

Sometimes the most obvious solution, is the most elusive. Can't believe I"d have not thought to do it this way! Excellent!

Great video! One thing I would add… when I use my trim puller… I place a wide putty knife blade between the wall surface and the trim puller; thus, preventing any damage to the wall.

Awesome presentation! Didn't have to sit through a lot of fluff while you talked about yourself or your company! Thank you. Informative and useful

Good Job, finally someone showing it the right way. As a license electrician its nice to see the code followed and solid advice.

Excellent instruction. The background information adds clarity and insight into the work. Excellent video production and commentary.

Awesome video. As a homeowner on a slab with a zillion inches of insulation in the attic, I always wondered how I would do this. Now I know!

Good job. Taking the yoke tabs off the outlet on the old work box is the only thing I would do too

Good video. Bonus: Small nail-plates or collars will also protect wires passing through studs from being punctured by drywall fasteners.

Your video production is absolutely stellar. I can't believe how clear and concise and informative. It makes me want to unsubscribe from any other channel and focus on my attention here. Truly a joy to watch