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Disconnect and Protect Electrical Wires

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Steps preparing to paint a house. How to prep a house for exterior painting

What happens here

Wearing rubber gloves for safety, carefully disconnect the wire nuts connecting the light fixture's wires (typically black, white, and ground) to the house's electrical wiring. After disconnecting, immediately screw the wire nuts back onto the corresponding house wires (black wire to black wire nut, white to white, ground to ground) to keep them organized and protected. If a wire nut doesn't stay on a single wire, use a piece of tape to secure it. This also protects the exposed wire ends from paint.

Goal: Safely disconnect and secure electrical connections

Tools and materials

  • Rubber Gloves
  • Wire Nuts
  • Frog Tape (Long-Release) Frog Tape

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so i'm going to now use my rubber gloves to remove these wire nuts so i don't get shocked so i'm going to take remove one at a time and i'm going to take remove that wire i'm going to screw that wire nut right back on just like that so we got a black we've got a white there's going to also be a ground wire so i'm going to remove the white screw that wire nut back on we've got a ground wire right here

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