How To Install An Electrical Box In Existing Drywall

Most electrical boxes are attached to a stud before the drywall is fifty-fifty installed. When you add a new box to an old wall, we always endeavor to put it in right adjacent to a stud for solid attachment. Specialized hardware does exist to permit putting an electrical outlet or switch admittedly anywhere without reference to a stud.

All these items are more often than not referred to as ReWork boxes -- boxes to be installed after the initial construction has passed. Some people tell me thay accept issues locating them, merely I accept establish one or more than of them at nearly renovation centres. Looking at most of them on the shop shelves you can exist at a loss trying to empathize how to make them piece of work. Hither you see the details, on both sides of the wall.

When putting thick wall coverings over existing walls, like another layer of drywall or foam insulation, extender sleeves keep the wires properly protected without moving the existing box.

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Ipwkego on January xx, 2022 sixteen:37

Great video! Thanks for your time and clear instructions.

Alez Maldonado on October 11, 2022 23:49

Hi, I am having trouble trying to find out how to install my junction box in my habitation. It's already congenital with no junction boxes and I can't attach them to the stud since there is already a wall; would have to pause my wall downward only to attain the box within of the wall to boom it to the stud. Need aid, thanks.

Hello Alez,
If the outlet boxes shown in the video won't work for you can usually cut the wall open for an outlet box or junction box correct upwards against a stud with plenty loose to be able to get the wires in. Pull your wires and run them into the box, so slide that dorsum into the wall. Yous can pull on the clamped wires to position the box and with an extension driver on your drill you lot should exist able to get ii screws through the side of the box and into the stud. You lot can't smash, but you can drive screws.
jon

Paul on June 12, 2022 14:49

How do you go about reattaching an outlet box on the surface of a hollow vinyl clad gazebo wall. Information technology has lossenwd upwardly over the years and I wish to brand it firm. In that location is aught to catch the screws in the hollow wall.

Hullo Paul,
You may need to literally pull information technology out of the wall pulling the wires forrad. Remove the quondam box and run the wires into one of the boxes shown in this video and then insert the no-stud ReWork box back inside. If the vinyl is less than 1/ii" thick you may need to tape some spacers either inside or outside so the gripping mechanisms can give yous a firm hold, but that depends on which box y'all utilise.

jon

David Drews on May 27, 2022 xviii:26

I love the videos and I have used those earlier for Cat-5 Cable & electric outlets, nevertheless can those same boxes be used for lite fixtures or should i use a Galvanized Steel New Piece of work Deep Round Electrical Box attached to a brace between the studs? All those appear to exist for ceiling fans.

How-do-you-do David,
Information technology all depends on the weight of your light fixture. Most heavy ceiling calorie-free fixtures will specify reinforced electrical boxes. Light weight ones are no problem as long as you don't try to practice chin-ups on the lite fixture.
jon

Devorah Garland on February xiii, 2022 23:59

Thank you. I at present know what to practise depending on the box that I find in my store. My situation may be slightly different because I live in Canada.

Hello Devorah,
These videos were all made in Canada -- all locally available stuff.
jon

Luis on January 06, 2022 13:37

Excellent video! Wish I knew these options two months ago when I shifted an outlet inches away from its stud before installing a kitchen backsplash.

Austin on June 04, 2022 17:31

That was a great video. Very helpful. Cheers

Gord Chiddicks on December 14, 2022 12:24

Great video! Covered every kind of rework box available. Clear, concise and well washed!

Mart on Dec 02, 2022 12:00

Excellent video - clear and concise

Farhan Ahmed on Nov 21, 2022 eleven:xvi

Wonderful video very helpful, cheers

Jeff on November 11, 2022 11:39

Nicely done, well spoken, swell views (both sides of wall)

Barry on Oct 20, 2022 eleven:39

Many,many thanks for this video. Like shooting fish in a barrel to understand. Just what I needed to know.

DG on July nineteen, 2022 21:46

Very helpful. Y'all might want to remind folks that if there is an electrical cablevision feed already snaked through the wall crenel, to pull from the wall cavity into the box and clamp it earlier you sock downwardly the box to the wall opening.

Thierry on July 15, 2022 02:31

Thank you then much. This gave me all the answers I needed!!! I advise yous upload this on YouTube for easy access.

DB on June 17, 2022 22:16

Thank y'all for taking the time to record this information. Very helpful and will definitely be a solution. Thanks once again!

sharon on February 26, 2022 12:07

Give thanks yous. Very good video. Now I at present my options.

Brian on February 04, 2022 fourteen:28

Corking video! Saved me a ton of time!

Angus Munroe on December 29, 2022 xx:01

I found this to be a very useful video. Thanks very much for posting it.

Bartel Diks on July 04, 2022 11:48

Hi. I really like your video and tips on "Electric Boxes with no Studs". Where tin can you get those absurd junction box brackets that you lot demo'd. I tin't see to discover them online.

Hullo Bartel,
Of all surprises, try the renovation centres.
--- Jon

Mark Romagna on April 21, 2022 21:02

where do I buy the special Hardware shown in twechnique #ane. what are the metal tab plates called? cheers.

Howdy Mark,
The "Box Hangers", made by Iberville in Canada, are available in all hardware stores in the electric section.
--- Jon

Kevin on March 02, 2022 21:00

Where can I notice the bracket in this sit-in with the foldable tabs to do this. I went my local Hard disk and Lowes and they do non stock.

Here they are at Rona:
http://www.rona.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/RonaAjaxCatalogSearchView?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-one&resultCatEntryType=ii&searchKey=RonaEN&content=&keywords=electrical+box+accessories

Adam on February 23, 2022 13:07

Excellent video. Thanks for the explanation. My wife will be thrilled that I'm replacing the box that has started coming away from the wall.

wil on December 04, 2022 04:00

Where can I find these boxes? Can't get them at Home Depot.

How-do-you-do Will,

Actually if y'all dig into the Habitation Depot website -- about page ten of 30 pages of "electrical boxes", you will find a variety of "no stud" boxes. They are calling them boxes with "old work clips" or "plaster ears" -- their way of saying "no stud". Rona is the aforementioned story -- dig through the spider web.
-- Jon

Richard Tracer on November x, 2022 xvi:05

I can't tell you how helpful this is. Thanks!

-R

Burt on October 04, 2022 01:33

Hello Jon,
Thanks for the clear video.
FYI, in Canada, T&B makes the third box (at the 2.22 mark of the video) equally Iberville BC777-LRB (http://www.tnb.ca/en/spider web-catalogue/?co=CA&ca=can&lang=en&a=nav&N=&Ntt=BC777-LRB%twenty) with "... pivoting ends for rework installation." The ends refer to the height and bottom of the box. You exercise not need to cut slots for the screws to make the box fit into the wall opening. If you look carefully the box ends are designed to pivot into the box. First remove the two non-metallic sheathed (NM) clamps; this allows the ends to pivot at the front edges into the box. The box can be slipped into a slightly smaller opening than yous needed to cut. This will give you more "purchase" to the drywall later information technology is installed. The two ends, when fully pivoted, leave a modest horizontal infinite between the ends at the center of the box. Remove the appropriate knockout and bring the cable into the box. Once the cablevision is in the box, you tin can apply this opening to secure a wire in the cable, part of the cablevision sheath or electrical tape around the cable from inside the box to inside the room. This helps yous not lose the cable, specially if they come from below, while pushing the box into the wall opening. Now careful pivot the ends and tighten the 4 screws that clamp the box to the drywall (max. wall thickness of 1⅛"). Pull the required cable length into the box and reinstall both NM clamps to secure the cable. As an alternate to the NM clamps, you tin use an appropriate cable connector and the ½" knockout at the dorsum of the box to secure the cablevision.
Hope that helps, Burt

Mal on May 09, 2022 xv:41

Thank Jon,
Excellent

IR on May 07, 2022 23:02

This is great, exactly what I was looking for and very nicely explained.

Paul FIfe on March 12, 2022 12:28

It would really aid if you lot really gave united states of america the name of the brackets/devices you used. I am trying to go some of those 2 piece tab brackets(first one in the video) and no one knows what I am talking about.

Hello Paul,
They are called "Box Hangers", made by Iberville in Canada. Take a photo of the video and show information technology to the store clerk. A picture is worth a chiliad words. Really virtually renovation middle clerks accept no thought what those things are for or how to apply them fifty-fifty though they are on nigh of the store shelves.
-- Jon

Melisa Pauley on February 22, 2022 19:01

How do I fix on what has been pulled out?

Hello Melisa,
If in that location is a lot of harm to the drywall, you may have to set up it commencement, then use the special boxes. See the video in this series on fixing large holes.
-- Jon

EZ on December 22, 2022 08:44

Cheers for the neat video. Very informative and helpful for the states DIY "weekend warriors" types. Off to the local hardware store for the necessary parts :-)

JSA on Jan 02, 2022 fifteen:24

Excellent - much thanks for taking the fourth dimension to practise a prissy explanatory video!

Jon on December xiii, 2022 xiii:27

I believe that the simply mode to install a double gang box without a stud is with the fold back tabs you lot see in the photograph in a higher place.

Boilerplate Jeaux on November 25, 2022 14:31

Thank you for this.

Hector on September 16, 2022 15:12

Great video! Question - do they make these types of boxes to adapt 2 switches? I could find anything on some of the retailers sites.

Jon on March 22, 2022 12:57

Hello Bansi,

An ordinary light fixture that is not also heavy tin be installed with these types of attachments.

If information technology is a heavier ceiling light fixture and so yous need to get to the larger octogonal boxes and if it has a heavy glass covering you will demand more back up. In this instance, you lot tin can become between the studs using the aforementioned king of structural bracket that is fabricated for holding ceiling fans. This could also be used on a wall to hole a heavier fixture. Follow this link for all the details.

jon

bansi on February 03, 2022 20:31

Thank you it wiil be very usefull for me,but can y'all permit me know for washroom wall,my house is three year old and there is no stud in center to put new light fixture.Thanks

Rick on April thirty, 2022 17:51

All these types work and the best tip was the third demonstration. It will simply work if you make slots in the drywall for the for screws, becuse information technology is such a tight fit. Also the spring loaded box, it not work very good to other wall thickness that is less than half inch drywall like console board that is a quarter inch.