Bird chirping
- [Male Speaker] Well here you can see we've already
put the can up on the wall here.
So this is our outlet box and I've already put
a Romex connector on this side.
And a Romex connector on this side as well.
And then these here, I used the snap-ins.
I kind of like using these sometimes,
it's a lot easier than dealing with those nuts,
trying to get those nuts on there.
So these connectors are needed here to provide
strain relief for the Romex cable.
So this is the cable for the garbage disposal.
It will go right in there.
And it'll come through to the inside
and then we'll connect it up to the back of our outlet.
Now, this is a metal box and per code,
per national electric code, anytime you have a metal box
you need to connect up a bond or what we call a ground.
You have to connect this to the system ground.
And I usually do that with a piece of wire like this.
I buy these things by the box 'cause I go through
so many of these.
And we're gonna be screwing it, you can see
there's a little mound in there in the back.
So this is gonna screw right into that mound
that you see (wire clicking)
right there and then it'll come out
and we'll connect this to both of these grounds here.
There'll be a ground coming in from this side
and they'll be another ground coming in from this side,
(loud clicking)
from the dishwasher side there.
So, let's go ahead and get that connected up.
And we'll show you how it will look.
Alright so you can see I've run my wires all through there
and I've connected the green wire to the back there
using that green screw there.
So what I like to do then is I use my little,
these are my three-way wire nuts, my Lever nuts here,
and I just insert it right in there like that,
(lever nut clicks)
close the door down, and then I'll go ahead
and I'll plug these other two ground wires into it.
And then once I do that then this box will be bonded
and we'll have a nice perfectly connected system ground.
Alright, so got all three pieces in there now.
I'm just going to close down the last lever right there.
So these ground wires (lever click)
are all three connected together now.
So there you go, they're all connected nicely.
Now I'm just gonna use my little wiring tool here
and tuck them all back in there out of the way
so we can get ready to wire up the outlet.
Alright, so here's the outlet and I've already attached
a ground wire onto it.
And we had to switch this one here,
this wiring nut, this Wago wiring nut,
we had to switch that to a five so that we could
accommodate one more of these.
We didn't have any fours in stock but it's okay,
they usually come in two, three, five.
So we're just going to hook this wire up to that one.
So now we just take a step back here and take stock
of what we've done here.
What we've done is we've completed this system ground here.
So the ground comes in from this wire here.
See, there's the copper.
And it comes in from this Romex wire here also.
And there's the other ground there.
And then we connected this green wire to the back
of the box to that, where the green nut is back there.
See that nut way back in there?
And then we connected the last wire to our outlet.
So now everything is grounded at the same potential here
and this metal box is now compliant with code.
It is now bonded to the system ground.
So now we're going to hook up the other sets of wires here
and I just wanted to point out one other thing here
for you on the outlet.
Now normally when you're doing a garbage disposal
and a dishwasher, what you normally see is
on these two screws right here there'll be a tab
that connects the two.
And you have to cut that off.
That tab is what separates the hot wire
from the garbage disposal, from the hot wire
to the dishwasher because they're gonna be off of
different power.
So you want to make sure
that they're not connected together.
So when you flip that switch on the kitchen counter up there
you want to know that it's only gonna send power
to the garbage disposal, not to the dishwasher as well.
And if you were to flip the switch
without breaking this tab here, you could just
pop your whole fuse panel and you might have to go
outside to your main to cure things, fix it.
So this is very important, you want to make sure
that these two are always separated when you're using
a dishwasher and a garbage disposal on the same circuit.
You know, two different circuits really in here,
but on the same outlet.
Now on the other side, where you would connect
the white wires, the white wires
can both get connected together.
That can stay just like it is.
Because the whites all get connected at the panel anyway.
Okay?
So let's go ahead and get these connected up.
Alright, so you can see as we push these
out of the way here, push these back in,
get them secured (plier clicking)
up against the back, get those grounds out of the way,
we've connected up the two black wires here
and you can see you always go
(plier clicking)
clockwise around the screw when you connect it.
That way it tightens down the wire.
Otherwise you'll loosen the wire, it'll never want to
tighten down.
It'll unloop itself.
So now we're going to flip this over to the other side here
and we're going to connect up the two white wires.
Alright so there we are with the white wires connected up.
Now I'm just gonna run a little tape around.
I always like to run tape around all of my terminals
just to protect our fingers or anybody else
that wants to work on it later on.
So there is our final product all taped up
with the electrical tape.
Now I'm just going to screw this onto the outlet
housing there.
And here's our finished product.
Nice and shiny and new.
And we got everything here done to code.
All the wires are nice and tight here.
And we're just going to tuck this Romex back behind
where the drywall's going to go.
Drywall will get mounted right in front of this.