hey guys welcome back to the channel so today we're going to be installing this soffit outlet
right here for my christmas lights and anything else i want to hang out here what i got is a
weatherproof enclosure and we're going to be installing it above the soffit i'm also going
to be installing one of these out in the back by my pool pump where i need an outlet so stay tuned
so we're going to use this kit that i bought at lowe's this thing is only like 16 it comes
with a water resistance outlet and everything you need to mount this thing outside and it's
a great value if you need a gfi version it's only like five dollars more at 21 which is a good deal
compared to the actual cost of just a gfi alone we're going to install this today using a gfi
that's already inside the garage this thing comes with everything all the hardware all the plugs you
need if you actually have to install it onto the wall with some wings this thing comes right here
with two of these wings you just install them into the pre-fab holes right here and then you bolt it
surface mount to the wall that way you don't have to drill into this box and penetrate it
and lose its uh water tightness so right now i'm installing an outlet right here on my cmu wall
off of my sub panel i installed recently if you haven't checked out that video go
ahead and check out that video i'm gonna put the gfi right here i'm gonna put a secondary
outlet right here so i have four outlets on this wall and i've already ran the wire up into the
soffit and we're gonna tap that soffit coming off of this wire right here which is gonna be
the load wire so this one gfi is gonna control everything down the line in order to get into
this soft fit what we need to do is start from the edge here and we gotta bend the edges back
take the nails out there's periodic nails along this rail through this right here there's actually
more nails on each piece of the soffit so you gotta pull those nails out usually they only use
one to do that you can slide that whole panel out from the end and that's the
only way you can really take these things out without damaging anything you could pull that
nail and maybe bend it out and then drop it down there's a nail right into the wood here
and then it just sits on a rail on the inside so we'll go ahead and do that now on the time lapse
all right so we're in here that came off pretty easily i was able to take that lip off the edge
here i was able to pry that off the end plate here wasn't bolted in with any screws so that came off
easily there was only one staple that ripped through right here because this thing actually
was installed the other direction going this way which is going to make it harder to kind
of put back together but i'll manage with the new nail into there i'm gonna go ahead and just
mount the box to this rail right here cut a hole for it and then get it back up in there and sealed
up with my wire drop that i've already left here to seal it up i actually just put this half inch
nipple into here and i'm just going to fill it with some expanding foam hopefully that's good
enough to seal this box up there you could run some liquid tight but you eventually have to
seal it with some silicone or some expanding foam anyway so it's the same as doing it right
here mount this up to the two by fours i just found these two little truss l brackets i had
laying around and one of them i had to drill an actual hole to match it up what i'm gonna do is
just drill these right into the two by fours and that way i have a little bit of adjustment
for height and this is perfect because it kind of centers it right in the middle of the soffit
i forgot to put this gasket on first so you have to put this gasket and then you got to screw the
outlet in with the gasket on actually you have to screw it in with a cover
on it so yeah it's kind of a stupid way to do it because
especially in this position where we don't have an angle and we can't hold it up
so there we have it right there i did kind of cut it a little bit too wide on the ends but
it's okay it's an open soffit anyways it just kind of hangs right there a little bit other than that
we got all the little edges bent back as good as we could it still looks like bacon right now
so as i mentioned earlier we're going to be installing another box back here but
it's going to be a surface mount one and i'm going to install it right here with the gfi
coming off of this panel right here so this is my pool pump panel right over here which
controls all my pool stuff and my controls for the pool so they've made the circuits for that
so they've got the pool pump circuit they've got the ozone bubble machine right there and
then the lights and controls which is this i'm going to add another breaker right here a 20
amp breaker to feed this gfi down here so i'm gonna have some power outlets on this side of
the house so i'm gonna be mounting this right here i ended up putting the ears right here on
this box already so i don't have to penetrate any holes in this box we'll just go ahead and
mount it right about here and then run a piece of liquid tight conduit with the connectors
on both sides between here and there and we should be good with the outlet right there
all right so we're inside the panel and we should be able to just put this 20 amp breaker right here
run the feed down to this knockout that's got a cap on it right now and we should be good so
i'm going to go ahead and put that through and get the liquid tied in and start fishing some wire in
all right so i got everything hooked up with a liquid tight i ran my 12 gauge
wire through i terminated it on the grounding block and the neutral block
then i attached it to my new 20 amp breaker so right now i'm gonna go ahead and just
wire up the gfi down here before i stick the breaker in and turn it on
alright there we have it guys got this baby connected up
looks like the water tight gfi works we hit the test button clicks push the reset
the light comes back on we have a nice water tight outlet right here by the pool pump
i'll break that last knockout right there and put this thing back on here and we should be good
hey guys thanks for joining me all the way to the end of this electrical
installation video as you can see adding these outlets was a pretty simple process if you're
comfortable with wiring stuff up and messing with electricity around the house remember guys on all
these different home improvement projects or car projects or whatever i do if i can do it you guys
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