Week#10 - Installing Receptacles

Good morning everyone,

This week we started to uncover the screws on the drywall of the West wall. Just like the North wall, the West wall will be covered in knotty pine. Alex is taking care of finding the screws and uncovering them. The next picture shows his work so far.

West Wall

I started to work on our new electrical circuit. This new circuit will contain 5 receptacles and the potlights that are located in the beams. The next diagram shows the layout of the circuit. We are adding 4 receptacles to our recroom as well as potlamps that will be controlled by a 3-way switch with a dimmer. The circuit will also contain a receptacle for our new central vacuum in the furnace room.



New Circuit

I installed 4 new receptacles on the North wall, one of which is located in the furnace room and will be used to connect the central vacuum. The next diagram shows three of the new receptacles.

Receptacles

I also added a 2" x 4" in the middle of the North Wall.  This 2" x 4" is used to hold a receptacle and will be the meeting place for the knotty pine wall. I plan on putting the knotty pine on a 45° angle and will meet in the middle of the wall. It will have a similar look to the South wall in our recroom in the shop.

Next week I hope to start working on connecting the potlamps together. I'm not sure if I will have to use BX wire because these types of lamps tend to get quite hot. We can hopefully start to take some of the drywall off.