How to install a socket with your own hands

Many of us have to perform a simple work at home: to repair something, put the wallpaper, etc. Often there is a need to install an electrical outlet. This work is not complicated, you can do everything yourself, but first it is necessary to learn the basic rules to work without failures.

There are a wide range of outlets in stores, they are 2 types:

1. External.
2. Internal.

The sockets are connected to the power grids equally, only there are some features: so, the inner socket must be placed in a special box, which is drowning in the wall, and the outer is installed on the wall itself. The inner socket is not visible, and the outer bulges from the wall.

Sockets can still be both single and paired, with a lid and without. You can also purchase and install a socket with a module - this is 2 or more sockets located in one line. This socket group is conveniently installed in the kitchen and in those rooms where you need to connect several household appliances simultaneously.

More serious devices are socket modules. One line combines several ordinary outlets, switch and signal sockets - to connect the Internet, telephone and television. You can also choose a module with a timer and protection.

It is possible to deal with the boxes and connection of electrically conductive modules, but for this you first need to have an idea how to set a conventional outlet into the wall or overhead.

The overhead socket is currently popular, as it is easy enough and easy to install on your own, even if the box or the opposition does not want to change, so as not to spoil the plaster or new wallpaper.

What are the advantages of an overhead outlet:

• the ability to quickly replace without disrupting the decorative wall decoration;
• the socket cover overlaps the fastening lining;
• you can change the old outlet and establish a new "euro" of the sample, in the former conversion;
• it is allowed to install a socket directly to the crate, drywall trim, walls, covered with wooden boards, because such devices are equipped with protection.

What instruments will need

Each electrician has a standard set of tools with which it uses when installing switches and sockets.

You will also have to purchase the following tools to cope with the setting of the socket yourself:

• screwdriver - 2 pcs. (one with a width of "sting" 4 cm, the second - 2 mm);
• cross screwdriver - 2 pcs. (diameter 2 and 3 mm);
• indicator definition of the chain rupture, as well as the "phases" and "zero";
• knife;
• nippers and sideness;
• passatia;
• hammer;
• isolent;
• a ruler and pencil.

Choose a tool with soft handles crazy in an insulating material. You may also need a special "ticks" tool, to quickly clean the ends of the wires from the insulating material, and small rounds.

All tools can be purchased in building supermarkets. We advise not save and buy a high-quality tool.

Observe the security technique

Since it is impossible to joke with electricity, then for your own security purposes, never work with wires under voltage. Do not be lazy and disconnect the voltage. Well, if this for some reason does not work, then it is worth using protective rubber gloves (special electrical), as well as to purchase safety glasses. But it is better not to risk and still turn off the voltage.

Generally accepted rules and standards for setting outlets

Currently there are no clear rules, on which height install sockets in residential and household premises (distance from the floor). But there are approximate standards that preferably stick to. So, if you preferably set the switch at a height of 1 m 60 cm from the floor, then for mounting the socket, it is recommended to retreat 80 cm - this is the maximum and only 25 cm from the floor for a minimum.

Now it is customary to install sockets at a distance of 30-35 cm from the floor to use the electrical devices in the rooms as convenient as possible (for example, turn on the vacuum cleaner, connect the TV, refrigerator, etc.).

Less than 25 cm from the floor to retreat during installation of the power outlet should not be, as the risk of short circuit arises (for example, with a wet cleaning). If the room (residential or domestic) is equipped with a protective shutdown device (UZO), then you can put a rosette at a distance of less than 30 cm from the floor.

How many outlets can be installed? The number of sockets in each room may vary, there are no clear restrictions. The only thing that is worth paying attention to the installation of the socket in the children's room is that in this room you need to install special socket modules equipped with protection against contact. The distance from the floor is 1 m 50 or 1 m 70 cm. Kids will not reach outlets and switches, and older children already know how to use electrical appliances.

There are some more nuances of installation of electrical outlets in residential premises (not only in the children's room), which electricians stick are to lay the electrical cable into the outlet. The wire itself when connected to the terminals should not be too short, the phase contact is desirable to place closer to the window (or on the left side, standing face to the wall where the socket is installed).

Depending on what kind of outlet will have to be installed, consider connectivity options.

How to install an outdoor outlet yourself

It is simple to install an independent outlet that is simple enough, especially if the wiring indoors is external, and the wall decoration is made of wood. This option is the setting of the outlet, though the fast, but the appearance of the premises of many does not suit, because the wires are visible and the socket "sticks out" from the wall. But here you need to understand what is more important - aesthetics or safety. For most of us, security always prevails, so it is better that the wires are in sight. This will allow you to notice bad contact in time to exclude fire.

How to install an outdoor outlet in the wall:

• first, disassemble the case of the socket: you need to unscrew the fastening bolts and remove the lid;
• now you need to fasten the design to the wall screws. If you install a rosette on a wooden or other flammable surface, then put a piece of non-combustible material under the base of the socket. It can be plaster or paronite. This material protects against fire;
• the overhead socket has a plank for fastening with screws for screws. You must first attach a power outlet, outline this place with a pencil;
• with the help of electric drills, drill in the wall wall and insert the dowels;
• to fix the socket, screw 2 screws (length 2.5 cm) and 2 plugs (diameter 5 mm);
• next, you need to connect the electrical wires to the network - this part of the work is the most responsible. In an ordinary outlet of the clamping terminals, so the wire simply clamp between them. You must insert the wires in the terminals with the hole and tighten. But first it is worth cleaning the wire (remove 5 mm insulating layer), and only after that you can delay the bolts. Or a second option: Clean the wires up to 15 mm and make a ring from a bare wire to insert a bolt with a washer in a homemade ring and screw right on the spot. Thus, it is possible to clamp wires firmly;
• it remains only to fasten the lid to completely collect a socket.

How to install sockets and ground switches

It is often necessary to face the fact that contacts when connecting the socket is not 2, and 3 - this means that you install a ground that protects your dwelling from electric shock. If you use high power devices, you can not do without grounding. This wire is closed in the yellow-green color of the insulating material.

What if there is no grounding wires in your house? Then you can make zeroing and attach to the free contact (third) zero wire. If you are a beginner in this matter, then to check where the "zero" wire, and where the "phase" must be used by a special device - this is a screwdriver with an indicator. As soon as you touch the "Phase" wire, the light bulb lights up on the instrument.

The principle of installing a socket with grounding is not significantly different from the above method, only you need to reveal the "zero" wire and hold all the contacts that the design is not only durable, but the socket has kept the load.

How to install a socket. Video:

How to install a double outlet

Installing a double outlet allows not only to save time, but also means. Why buy 2 single sockets and install them in a small room, if you can install 2 outlet at once in one conversion.

Materials and tools for mounting Sockets Standard may need another electrical cable and perforator if you install a socket in a new place.

So, before proceeding with the work, you need to decide on the installation site of the outlet (if it is not a replacement of the old on the new one), pave an electrical cable in the wall to this place, to purchase outlets and set the opposite.

Some information about the choice of pickups: they are divided into 2 types:

1. "Classy" on concrete, brick, ceramzitoblocks. You can fix the socket box with alabaster or gypsum solution.
2. Outlook for installation in the wall of plasterboard, plywood, chipboard. Such a box is attached to the spacer foot.

Installation Options Outlet Box:

1. A markup is performed in the wall (this is the permissible distance of the floor outlet). If you want to install sockets near the door, then you need to take into account the width of the door box.
2. We plan a pencil line of the arrangement of the opposition and proceed to the preparation of the opening. If the wall is concrete, then in order to answer the question: "How to install a power outlet in a concrete wall", you must first fix the opposition. To do this, we use a special nozzle for the perforator - this is a crown on concrete (brick, diameter 70 mm).
3. The wire in the wall should be left to the side so that during the drilling of the hole to install the box does not damage it.
4. You can use the electric drill, but this method of installing the pickling is considered the most dusty.
5. The hole in the wall is ready, insert the box and check the depth, if it is suitable, then you can proceed to the next step - to fix the peaver in the wall. The depth of the opening must be with a small margin (up to 5 mm) to lay a little solution in the middle and carry out an electrical wire.
6. To get rid of a small gap between the box to install the socket and the wall, it is necessary to cut the edge of the opposite to a sharp knife. Then you can "drown" it in the hole to install the socket on the same level with the wall without gaps.
7. Gently start the wire in the box if the concrete is militant, then this can be done using a screwdriver or use the perforator.
8. Now you need to start the wire in the opposite side of the reverse side (bend a small hole in the bottom).
9. Insert the wire into the box, set it into the hole. We remind you that the gap of 2-3 mm is necessary in order to fix the box with mortar.
10. The solution can be prepared from alabaster or plaster (construction or medical). We mix the solution from the powder and water (the density is medium).
11. A narrow spatula lay a gypsum solution into a hole and side gaps, set the box. Fix the box from the outdoor side, well-facing mortar.
12. We are waiting for the solution to dry and you can start the installation of the rosette itself.

How to install an internal outlet

1. Installation work The outlet begins with the fact that it is necessary to turn off the voltage. To do this, in the electrical shield you need to lower down "off". If the levers are not signed, then check the voltage in the outgoing wires to set the outlet with a screwdriver indicator. If it is too difficult for you, it is better to turn off all the levers to be confident that there are no voltages in the network.
2. A screwdriver in the outlet is unscrewing the fasteners to remove the top front panel from the outlet.
3. Crouching the wires. You can do this with the help of booths or a special tool. The length of each wire is at least 10 cm.
4. Remove the isolate from the ends of the wire (up to 10 mm) and clamp the wires in this way:

5. Wires need to be placed in the terminals of the socket so that they are located in different terminals (the "phase" wire - brown, "zero" - green with yellow, working blue color). Fasteners can be tightened.
6. I exhibit the outlet in terms of the level and screw the panel. Be careful not to tighten the bolts too much so as not to damage the front panel outlet.

After completed installation, you can turn on the voltage in the shield and check the outlet in operation.

How to install an additional outlet: