Switched Outlets are great if you have a lamp but if you don't then they're really kind of annoying. In this video I'll show you how to eliminate a switched Outlet making it fully functional and removing the switch.
Okay, I want to remove the switch from the outlet yes but I want to keep the switch to control a light sense I have no lights at all in the room. I just want to get a cheap wall light to get ride of the lamp. How do you take the switch off the plug in but keep it in to a control a light? I kinda want to add another plug in too.
Hi. How about 2 switches on either side of room that operates one light. How do you eliminate the switch that is rarely used (if ever) and using that blank cover for that switch?
I have a room which has an outlet connected to a single switch, but there's not a light in the room - how would I go about connecting new recessed lighting to it while eliminating the switch and keep power to it?
I Have a similar problem setup in my downstairs home office which is basically a 4th bedroom in a split level home. I have an outlet against one wall that is controlled by a single light switch. I have a 2nd Gang switch that controls the ceiling lights and a 3rd gang switch that acts as a two-way switch for an adjacent 3rd Bathroom. I want to eliminate the switch to the Wall outlet because whenever I have my computer plugged into that wall outlet, someone unfamiliar with my setup can accidentally switch off the Wall Outlet while my computer is turned on thus invited a hard disk crash. How do I safely remove the electrical switch so I may replace with a blank face plate. The current switch has 4 -wires. A Green Wire for the Ground, a Red Wire and two Black Wires. Can I remove the 4 wires from the switch and tap them off with screen on plugs? If so, wont that interrupt the power to the outlet? I do not want to disrupt power to the outlet I just do not want a switch connected to this wall outlet as an off/on Terminator. I am unfamiliar with how to connect the wires so not to interrupt the electrical flow to the out after I remove the switch. Will need to plug or daisy chain the two wires from the eliminated switch and connect them to one of the other switches. Or do I connect all three wires (Red, and Two Blacks and tire off with a cap?) I also did not understand what you were referring to when you said the outlet was up side down.
Hello, the light switch in my garage controls all the receptacles, including the GFCI ones. So, when I switch off the light, there's no power to any of the receptacles, and all the appliances connected to them, such as the garage fridge, lose power. Is this similar to what was explained in the video you mentioned? I have three duplex receptacles in my garage. What steps should I take to address this issue?
Need to know how to make a switched outlet work. Bottom live and top on the switch. Please help. Only 2 wire black and white. No red wire and only 2 white wire and 1 black with bare ground wire
if you get rid of all your switched outlets in a room can you use the switch and add a light or ceiling fan? room has three switched outlets and no ceiling fan. would like to use the switch and install and extra switch to install ceiling fan and light.
What if i have a single switch and i want to take the switch off the outlet and use the switch for wafer lights, would i do the same thing to the outlet then keep the switch wired instead of putting wire nuts on the wires?
Hi, I have a switch which is connected to 2 different outlets. I would like to keep one of my outlets on the switch. Is it the same process minus the last part? Im assuming I just remove the red wire from that one outlet and put a wire cap on it. Please advise. Thanks
Sometimes builders run the red wire to only one Outlet and sometimes they run it through multiple Outlets. When it's ran through multiple Outlets then you can usually just disconnect and cap it from the ones you don't want to be switched anymore.
We have a room that only has a switched outlet for a lamp. We want to change the switch to control a ceiling light. I now know how to break the switched outlet, thanks btw. Is my next step to run romex to the light and make my connections or is that switch no longer hot?
The switch should still be hot as long as you don’t cap off the black wire from the junction box or breaker panel. So when removing the outlet, cap the red wire that goes to the outlet, but keep the black wire coming in from the power source. Then run your Romex to the new fixture and make the connections.
I have a bathroom with two switches - one for the light, one for the fan. When the light is off, the GFCI outlet is also off. How do I make the outlet live even when the light is off?
Even if it was, this guy was wearing insulated gloves, so he’s not in any real danger as long as he’s careful and knows what he’s doing, which he does. While it is indeed very risky, I have a feeling he’s done this enough times to avoid issues.
Did not work for me because I had 2 white wires, 1 red wire, 1 cooper wire. So when I removed the red traveler wire I just had 2 white wires and 1 ground wire. Oh I forgot to mention that one of the white wire is a hot wire. Is there a solution for this?
Do you have a video where there is only one switch on the wall? Where that switch powers the outlet off and on and how to keep the outlet hot and the switch to new lights?
Do you need to replace the outlet and switch when removing the switch to not control the outlet reason I’m asking is because I want to add canned lighting to my new home. Can’t we just remove the wire cap it off and remove it from the switch ?
Hey, allthefix'n, don't cap that wire off by itself, just attach it to the line feed of the switch with that wire nut making the switch half of the receptacles hot and you wont need do any receptacle remove/replace both halves will be made hot and the switch is gone.
Even though this is easier, I feel like it breaks some type of code. Could cause problems if the switch fails in the future and someone goes to replace it and doesn't realize that this is what was done.
I capped the red in the outlet box. Do I really have to do anything to the light switch? Can I just leave that as it is (now not doing anything)? Or do I have to cap off the red in there?
Typically, isn't it the practice that you place grounded outlets with the ground down, and GFCI outlets without a ground face up, to better distinguish them?
Don’t know why people want to get rid of switched outlets. Being about to switch a lamp on with a switch is a good thing. In general the top should be switched and the bottom constant. No reason to be upside down. Homeowner doesn’t understand the advantage.
Whoever built my home put the each room entirely on a swich. Everytime you hit the switch half the room goes off... Tv, air purifier, lamps, alarm clocks, cell phone chargers. I would be okay with one outlet per room, but this is too much!
@@oppositeofamnesia Someone probably wired the switch the wrong or wired the outlet that's supposed to switch wrong. You would need to do some investigating or hire an electrician to see if there is a work around. Switched outlets should have 4 wires, the constant hot which is black, the switched which is red, the white neutral and the ground which is unshelded.
@@billybassman21 I really just want to eliminate the whole switch in most of the rooms. I have smart bulbs in every lamp so it's all voice activated anyway. Very frustrating situation. I'll likely end up having an electrician come in
@@oppositeofamnesia Disconnect the wires from the switch and just connect them together with a wire nut. Make sure you turn the breaker off first and the nut is tight. It will just be a dummy switch and put constant power to everything in that room.
People usually have lots of other electronics to plug in these days, and no one wants to wake up to a dead phone that they thought was charging, but wasn't because the switch was off. Plus with overhead lights, it's not as important for lamps to be on a switch. Not too mention so many are smart controlled these days. Switched outlets certainly have their place, but they are becoming less and less useful over time.
I have a room which has an outlet connected to a single switch, but there's not a light in the room - how would I go about connecting new recessed lighting to it while eliminating the switch and keep power to it?
These situations always have their own variation, but you likely need to pigtail all the black wires together and white wires together in the outlet box. You will probably have a hot white wire and black wire that leads to the switch. In this new set up with a ceiling light, you'll need to run a new 14/2 from where you want the light to the switch box and nut the whites together and put the outlet black wire on the bottom switch hot screw and the new black wire on the top hot switch screw.
