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How to Wire a Bathroom: Installing Electrical Boxes
After a review of the types of electrical boxes, Cliff Popejoy demonstrates how and where to install them.
How it Works: Household Electricity
Electrician Cliff Popejoy explains the systems and components that bring power from it's source into and around your home.
Circuit Testing 101
If you’re new to running electrical circuits and are working on your own, it’s a good idea to test electrical work at rough-in. You can test from box to box,…
Temporary Power on the Job Site
Whether you’re an electrical contractor, a builder, or a homeowner, there are a variety of ways to provide safe, code-compliant temporary power for your project.
Protect Electrical-Box Screw Holes
Drywall guys often skim mud over the edges of electrical boxes and inadvertently fill the fixture screw holes. Before they can fill them, though, I fill them first. I use…
How to Install a Single-Pole Light Switch
Learn how to cut, strip, and connect the ground, neutral, and hot wires for a basic light circuit.
How to Work Efficiently in an Electrical Box, Part 3
After wires are organized in a switch box, it's time to bundle and label them so you know what's what when you come back to install the switches.
How to Work Efficiently in an Electrical Box, Part 2
Once non-metallic sheathed cables are pulled into a box and stripped, it's time to organize the hot, neutral, and ground wires.
How to Work Efficiently in an Electrical Box, Part 1
After running and labeling all of the wires for your lighting circuits, it's time to organize them in the switch boxes.
Drywall cutting-tool protection strips
I was hanging drywall in a den next to my kitchen recently and was using a rotary cutting tool with a guide-point bit to make cutouts around electrical boxes, doors,…

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