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HOW TO INSTALL A TV OUTLET - DIY TUTORIAL FOR MOUNTED TV

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What happens here

Take a length of 14/2 Romex wire (about 15 feet should be sufficient for most installations). You'll need to run this new wire from the location of the old power outlet (lower hole) to the location of the new TV outlet (upper hole). If there are no studs between these two openings (which you can check by hand, as studs are usually 16 inches apart), you can simply push the Romex wire through the wall cavity. Ensure you have enough slack at both ends for making connections. Once the new Romex is fished, cut off any excess wire from the existing Romex coming from the lower wall box, ensuring only the necessary wires for the new outlet remain.

Goal: Run new electrical wiring from the existing power source to the new TV outlet location.

Tools and materials

  • 14/2 Romex Wire — Providing new power to the TV outlet
  • Wire Strippers — Cutting and stripping wire insulation

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plate and you can fix it. So, we now have an open space here. And I feel nothing behind the wall over here. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to fish my wire. And in order to fish my wire, everybody, I'm going to fish my wire from the outlet box to over here. And then I'm going to sleeve it up into the wall. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my ROMX right here. You don't need a lot of ROMX for this job, everybody. Here's about like 15 feet, which is plenty. This is from my truck. 142 ROMX. I'm going to take my flathead and I'm going to twist the bottom right here. Right there. Just like that. I'm actually going to use my uh dikes to cut that. Just like that. And I'm going to sle my ROMX in everybody. So, watch this. There's nothing in the wall here. There's no studs here cuz there's a stud right here and there's a stud right here. And studs are marked every 16 in. So just to give you guys an idea. So 16 in just like this. Just like that. See guys, we got our wire through. I'm going to pull enough wire so I can just have enough for the TV up there. So, we got our wire sleeve

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