What's up everyone? Welcome back to The Durbin Compound! If you haven't met me already, my name
is Devin Durbin. So today we're down here in my wife's office and she had requested to put in
an HDMI outlet in the wall. So she's currently got this wire hung from the TV down to the DVD player.
So she wanted something where she could plug in a patch cable straight out of the wall, put it on
her desk, and it's hooked up to the TV. So let's go over a list of things you need to get this
thing done. So I went to Home Depot. I grabbed a RCA to HDMI outlet. I also grabbed one of the Legrand
cable access wall things. It's kind of got this feather in the middle, so you can feed multiple
wires out of it. What my intent is to put this up high. I'm also going to bring in the other wires.
The wires on the back here come out of my ceiling tiles. So I'm going to put a hole in the wall, in the top
of the stud, and bring the power wire and a coax down through this as well. So it'll be even more
sleek. We'll probably put this up here somewhere. Hopefully that's up in frame. So, I'm going to put that
up in here somewhere. The wires will come directly out of that and into the TV. And then we'll put her
HDMI cord down here somewhere, so that she can just have a little two-foot patch cord and go
right into her DVD player. So I've got those two. I also bought a cheap HDMI cord to go in between. We
can argue about all the different, second kind of cool HDMI cords and this stuff that you really
don't need. But I bought a cheap one. Should be good enough for what she's trying to do.Two old work
boxes--these old work are for putting stuff new in drywall. It's kind of backwards, but we're going to
put a box down here and a box up there. I'm going to go ahead and cut out the top of these boxes
in order for the cables to just run through. We're not dealing with electricity. It's just HDMI cable.
So we can literally write our own rules on this one. So I also have a stud finder, my oscillating
tool, and also my fishing rods. So I'll cut the first box first. Then cut the second one.
We'll fish it up through the wall. It's kind of going to be at a diagonal angle and we'll put our
boxes in and feed the wire. And it should be as simple as that. So follow along. I'll probably do
this as a time-lapse. And then I'll cut in when I think there is something good to talk about.
Let's do it!
All right, so I figured I'd try this method of voiceover on my time-lapse, so instead
of talking through the video, making it extra long. So, I decided to put the outlet just over
the desk edge and not where I had originally marked it there on the left when you see it in
frame. So now the outlet will be directly behind where the HDMI player will sit, or whatever
you want to call it, the DVD player, will sit on the desk there, and I'll have a short patch cable
to attach to the wall. So literally, fit my box in where I wanted it to go. And then tighten down the
screws to bring it into place. As you can see, the faceplate will cover a little mistake I
made to the right. I actually cut the drywall too far back over the 2 X 4. So you can make little small
mistakes like this without having a very big deal. Just having the faceplate there will cover up all
of those things. So, you know, it's kind of a win-win. You have a little bit of play. We're not building
the Taj Mahal here. So, now I'm transitioning to do the top box. Now this one won't be anywhere close
to my stud. I wanted this in the middle of the wall. So I was able to use the Milwaukee Pocket
Level. If you haven't seen that already, I'll go ahead and put a little, you know, thing up in the
top right-hand corner, so you can check out that review. And you can see how nice those things are
to use, especially for small stuff like this. An oscillating tool makes this project go
by a lot faster, allows you to cut the drywall with ease. This M 18 oscillating tool has definitely proven
its weight in gold. It's a great machine to use and makes mowing through this drywall fairly
easy. So once I get this done...get this piece cut out here, and get it kind of trimmed-up to where
the box will fit in where I want it, then we're going to go ahead and fish the wires through.
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Okay, so here I am using the Klein Tools glow rod set. So, this is a fiberglass glow rod set.
Literally has metal ends on it. You can extend it to be very long. And I'm only using one section
of it here because I only have about four or five feet that I'm fishing through. Makes it very, very
easy. All I had to do is reach behind the dry, or the insulation, and was able to just pull it out.
So here I'll attach my HDMI cable to one end of it. And as I pull it back down through, I will fish it
through this second box at the bottom. So, this is where I goofed. I bought a longer cable. I think I'll say
that here in a couple minutes when I come back on the screen. But I should have bought an eight
foot, maybe even a six foot for this project, but really not that big of a deal. Now the fiberglass
glow rod set makes this extremely easy, as all I did was pull it down through. And makes it fast and
super simple for a project like this. So after I get these wires fished, literally I just need to
put on the faceplates and wrap up the project. It's that easy! It's not rocket science.
We're not building the Taj Mahal here. You don't need to be an expert to do this kind of project.
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I'm literally going to pull it through my box like this. Go ahead and put my box in place, and tighten
it down. And what we're going to do is, then put our faceplates on and basically we're done. So go
ahead and tighten down this old work box and put our faceplates on. And be done with it. And then the rest is just clean up. So in the future
what I will do is, I'll put a hole in my stud at the top of the wall and then run these two wires
down into it. I guess it wouldn't take very long to do today. You know, I'll quit being lazy and actually
just do it.
All right guys, so now I am about to fish the wires down through the top from above my drop
ceiling. So I literally just had my coax wires run above the drop ceiling. All I'm doing here
is taping them to the fiberglass fish rod. Got my power wire and my coax. Once I get them taped
up to the fiberglass rod, then I will simply just pull them down through to the top of my box. So I
don't know if I put this in the video yet, but both of my boxes that I used I made a bigger
hole with my oscillating tool, so that these simple wires could go through the box. If you are fighting
with the original knockouts for the box it would be very difficult to kind of get them through
into the boxes. So eventually I'll replace that ceiling tile, make it full, and make it look nice.
So the last step of the project is literally to put on the faceplates. This is one of those horsehair
pull through faceplates. So I just needed to pull my wires through, get it lined up, and get
the screws tightened down into place. So I think at this point I gave up on my wrists here and
just did the rest of it with the impact because I was a sick of messing with it. So, well one thing,
when you're doing something like this with the impact, be very careful. You can squash
down this plastic or break it very, very easily. So I recommend that, you know, if you're going to use
it, to just use it on the actual backplate. Do not use it on the faceplate itself. They're smaller
screws and you can easily snap that plastic if you were to torque it down with the impact on those.
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All right, now that we got the top all done and wrapped up, we just need to get the bottom wrapped up.
So this is a simple union. All it is, is a male on both sides of the little bracket.
So it literally just holds it in there. I'm sure that you can make one of these on your
own, if you were savvy and had a 3-D printer or something like that. You could make this
mount yourself. So, once you get that together, literally it's as easy as putting the faceplate
on. And then you're all wrapped up and ready to go. So clean up is left. And I hope you guys
got some good tutorial on how I did that. So, let's go ahead and wrap this video up.
All right guys, so I hope you like the content, the time lapse, and just how I did this one. If you
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