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Review On How To Add An Extra Plug-In Outlet To Your Garage

Step by Step Review

1.AFTER SHUTTING OFF THE POWER AND REMOVING THE outlet from the garage ceiling, screw an extension ring to the existing box. Also, remove the knockout plug in the end of the ring so that you can attach the conduit.

2. USE METAL PIPE hangers and bolts to hold the conduit to the drywall ceiling. Push the bolt up through the hanger hole; tighten the screw to secure the hanger.

3. PUSH THE conduit up through the hangers, then slide it into the extension ring. Thread a wood or machine screw into each hanger and tighten it to hold the conduit firmly in place.

4. USE A PREFORMED conduit elbow to turn the corner where the conduit runs parallel with the wall. Join the elbow to the two straight conduit pieces with put on the connector pieces.

5. TO MOUNT THE metal receptacle box to the concrete-block wall, just drill a couple holes in the wall and insert some plastic anchors. Slide the box onto the conduit and screw it to the wall. This is as simple as it sounds but make sure that you use a concrete bit in you drill and pull it out for every half inch that you drill. This depends of course on the size of the hole that you are drilling. Smaller the hole the more often you will have to allow the bit to clear its powdered concrete.

6. AFTER THE CONDUIT is installed, push single-strand copper wire into the extension ring and through the conduit until they appear at the receptacle box that you have mounted on the wall.

7. FASTEN the two outlets to the cover plate, then screw the plate to the box. The standard outlet on the left is wired to the GFCI outlet on the right; this way both are ground-fault protected.