Electrical box lesson
One of the great rewards of doing your own home-improvement projects is that you nearly always learn something new. And that was certainly true when I installed wainscoting in our family room.
However, I was surprised that the lessons learned weren’t about woodworking or carpentry, but electrical work.
You see, the first step of the project is to lay out all the wainscoting components to see how they align with the existing electrical outlets. Each outlet has to fall within one of the flat wall panels; they can’t be on a vertical stile or raised bevel of a panel.
As it turned out, of course, 10 of the 12 outlets in the room had to be moved to fall on a panel. That meant cutting open the wall, pulling new cable, and repositioning the outlet boxes.
However, in nearly every case, the new locations of the outlet boxes didn’t fall on a wall stud. So how was I suppose to attach the boxes?
I found the reply at my local electrical-supply firm.
Original post by Joseph Truini
