How to install sockets in drywall

Gypsum cardboard, like building material, is gaining more and more popularity, so many builders are faced with the question of how to make a socket in drywall. Special tools are not required for this, every master has all them. The main thing is to accurately perform the priority of work.

Holes for sockets

At the beginning of work, you need to decide on the tools that will be needed in the process, there are few of them:

1. Socket.
2. Box.
3. Screwdriver.
4. Drill.
5. Chancellery knife.

On the back of the drywall, you should already have a wiring. It should not be seen from the outside of the wire, so you need to remember at what distance from the floor and relative to the sides there are the ends of the wires, and in this place to outline the hole with a pencil. In this case, take into account that the drywall is attached to metal racks and in order not to get on them, you need to carry out a strong magnet along the wall.
The markings of the holes must be carried out, given that the wires will still bend and clean up under the outlet. Now you need to set the level to the wall made of drywall horizontally and where the future socket will draw a flat line with a pencil. Now you need to put the level vertically and make a cross. The intersection of lines is the central point.

Holes for sockets in drywall are made using a drill, you need to use a special crown for wood. You can, in principle, use the usual drill, but then you will have to disperse a lot of holes in a circle in a circle, and then gently squeeze this circle with your hand. But experts still do not advise using this artisanal method, otherwise the edges are not even, or even fragile material during drilling can break. The diameter of the socket is 68 mm, which means that the same size the hole must be made in drywall.

If you still come across a metal profile, then carefully cut the part of the metal on the metal with scissors, so that in this place the soccer does not interfere with the rise evenly.
There are some standards for placing a socket:

1. The center of the outlet should be 30 cm from the floor.
2. In the bathroom, the outlet should be a meter above the washing machine.
3. In the kitchen, the outlet should be 1.20 m from the table.

These sizes can vary depending on the wishes of the owner of the house.

Installation of a socket

All the sockets, despite which company produces them, have the same principle of fastening in drywall - paws. The jacket of drywall has not two screws, as in concrete, but four. One pair is located outside and fixes the frame of the outlet.
How to mount a jacket in drywall:

• Cut the hole under the wire in the socket. It will be correct to make the wire go from behind to the socket, it will be easier to mount a socket.
• Insert the wire into the opening hole. Naturally, the electricity in this room should be disconnected.

• Put the mounting screws in the horizontal plane and insert the socket into the hole.
• Twist the screws so that the socket is slightly drawn into the hole, then slightly loosen and check the reliability of the fasteners.

Installation of a socket on a socket

Installation of sockets in drywall is carried out in this way:

1. Pull the screw from the lid of the outlet and remove the lid.
2. The base of the outlet is based on the socket, so that the nests pass along one horizontal line, and the base should be in the middle in the socket.
3. To outline with an awl or pencil the place where the screw will be mounted.
4. Make a groove for a screw for a screw. Please note that the drill has a smaller diameter than a screw.
5. Swing the screw a little to outline the thread.
6. Twist the screws on the outlet without a lid.
7. Combine the wires with terminals and put the lid on top.

When closed, sockets are installed in drywall in the recesses. On the boxes for sockets for drywall there are holes where the conductors are introduced. You can fix the boxes with the construction solution. So that the socket does not jump out when they take out the fork, it is necessary that the spacer legs are cleaned in stamping. It also happens that there is no stamping. Then it is necessary to make a design for fixing sockets ourselves. For this you need:

1. Cut out of rubber with a leaf strip of 20 cm. The thickness of the rubber should be about 4 mm. You can cut two stripes, but then their width is 3 cm each.
2. Stretch the stripes on the side of the box for the teenager. Thus, the socket will stay inside the box, because there will be an obstacle for spacer legs. They will elapse rubber and will not go beyond the outlet.
3. A bar of a tree or cement can act as a barrier for the legs, before that it is necessary to degrease the box.

If the box is plastic, then there are usually no problems with it. Spit -back paws independently make cavities for themselves and retain inside the wall. If for some reason you do not have ordinary boxes, then instead of them you can use tin cans. This role is best played by banks from under condensed milk or stew. They in diameter coincide with the diameter of the boxes from the store. With the help of nippers from the can, you need to remove sharp edges, so as not to get hurt in the future. You can make two boxes from one whole can be made of condensed milk, for this it is necessary to cut it in half, and pour the contents. In the bank, it is necessary to make holes where the legs will rest and also make a hole for wires. All holes will be made with a chisel.

Rules for using a socket under drywall

Basic rules:

1. As a rule, on the outlet it is written what power and voltage power can withstand. But in any case, the load on it cannot exceed 1,500 watts. And then, this is only if the house is in the house. Instead, there is no need to use the “bugs”, otherwise the apartment will not be protected from the drops of the network. And the socket will quickly get out of the working condition.
2. Shtepsel sockets must be mounted at least half a meter from the floor, and the stupid - 30 cm. The latter should always be equipped with rotary plates, which, when the fork from the outlet, close the nests.
3. According to safety measures, you do not need to mount sockets near the grounded sections of the apartment. Distance - at least half a meter.
4. In bathrooms, it is not recommended to mount sockets, as an exception, you can make a socket with hidden wiring and with a drive from a reduced transformer.
5. According to construction standards, one socket may occur at 10 square meters. meters, and in the kitchen, regardless of the area, there can be only two outlets.
6. The fork needs to be removed with two hands. One is to hold the outlet, and the second is to remove the fork. If the socket is not supported, then it can shatter, and one day you will take the fork along with the outlet from the socket, and it can be inserted back, but it will not stay long. Therefore, it is better to handle carefully with a socket, then it will serve without failures for many years.