RUNNING Power to the Shed 

This is the type of videos i love running into! Where accidents/mistakes happen and get fixed. I want to let you know this video has seriously inspired me to work on a small project aswell. Ive always had this project in mind but what stopped me was overthinking about hitting a pipe or anything of a sort. But seeing this happened isnt so bad. Its fixable thank you for this video!

As an electrical contractor that was rough to watch but you did it, nice work. That wire could have been direct buried with sleeves at the end. Make sure you separate your neutral and ground on that sub panel. Only spot they tie together is in the main next to the meter. I hope you used no-ox on the aluminum wire connections. Cheers!

These videos are so entertaining to watch. Instead of those videos that are so popular like "How to run power to a shed" or "DIY....." its a "Watch me Run power to my shed" and its representative of people who aren't professionals and/or just watched a few videos on RU-vid, sent it and ran into issues.

This is my next big project also. Thanks for sharing.

finally found a weekend warrior willing to share his trials. Going through a very similar process here and along the way have had many of the same questions as you. why is my neutral and ground bridged on my main lug --- because it's my main lug lol -- do I need to ground my sub panel and yes, I know I can't bridge neutral and ground on sub panels..... anyway. thanks again for taking the time to share.

Awesome Connor. Love it when the family gets involved with the beautiful lawn. Take care &stay safe.

Brilliant Video! It feels real and you don't pull punches, i.e. "my first pisser-offer of the day", "backfilling the trench, ya that's a pretty sucky job." Even worked in some quality cooperative work with the missus. 0lad you eventually got 'er done.

Easily one of the top 20,000(ish)"How To" channels on the youtubes folks. Dont kid yourselves!!

“If you follow this channel, YOU TOO can have abs like Connor Ward!” 😄

Excellent job. I came across your video seeking inspiration for a detached garage. As a communications technician I especially appreciated your computer networking needs in an outbuilding. Could have been handled by a wireless bridge between the house and shed. As a fan of physically connecting devices whenever possible, my hat is off to you sir.

your grass is amazing!

Perfect opportunity to use the classic line from Mr. Mom, “220, 221... whatever it takes.”

Oh I know the work of pulling a cable through an empty tube very well. I know how difficult it is sometimes and how often you curse when it doesn‘t work. But you usually have the right equipment and tools so that many things work easier. Otherwise always interesting videos. So different. And of course your wife is wearing a great t-Shirt from Andreas the lawn freak. It was though him that I first became aware of you. Keep it up. Many greetings from Berlin Sven. And sorry if I have some mistakes. My English is not perfect 👍

You have a really nice lawn

Great vidoe Connor this is what DIY like for me! 😆

ground and neutral bonded at first means of disconnect because power will always flow back to its source. after that power will flow to the easiest path why you isolate for subs

I freakin love you so much. I died at the ab workout cut. 🤣 Thank you!

Looking good. The SheShed should be completed on time in 2022. 😂👊🏼

Watching this makes me appreciate the hard work that you did as well as when I ran underground power line to my shed.. What an investment!!! You will love it!!!!!

Dude your grass looks like astroturf!

Would a wiring inspector require the conduit to have expansion couplings when it comes out of the ground?

what an immaculate yard

You should have buried warning tape in the trench a foot above the conduit when back filling the trench in case someone ever digs in that area.

Mate dont forget to grease those terminations with a little anti-ox. Re-torque terminations after 1 year or less. Cheers mate good stuff this again!!

So if I am running just lights and receptacles to my shed, I only need 120? Should I run a 10-3 30 amp and have two 15 amp breakers?

what type of wire did you use and where can I get it please?

Nice job! That’s awesome you have your family to help😁!

If i add a power meter to my shop , will the power line come from the pole by the road or the pole in my yard? Trying to figure out how far of a trench im going to have to dig

What awg wire was that for 200' run? Was is 240v?

Hello what gage is the wire you used.thanks

Where is you're grounding electrode system?

what type of wire did you use?

Keep PITTL! Shed is going to look great once it's done in 2022

You crack me up man.

Power up Mega shed!

whew thanks for showing this i'm not doing this one.

That's freaking cool! Can't wait to see it when everything is together! It's fun watching the process!

Awesome, been looking forward to this since the live stream 🤘👍🤙

Jeez how small is that garage for 100amp? What kind of work will be done? What size wire was used? Was that URD? No pipe was necessary with urd unless penetrating

This is just like an episode of This Old House.

You seem like a fun neighbor.

Nice ab work

Dude!..You not selling pillows anymore? 🤣🤣

Great video and it was nice seeing you and your wife working in a project together.

Getting cold there fast? Nice to see the family outside together doing family things....stay great!

Dude’s a character.

Would like to know how your network turned out as burying those two conduits parallel with that 100A service in one may really screw up the Ethernet. Code requires them to be separated some what, the farther the better.

Remember to drive a ground rod into the ground next to the shed and connect to the ground bus on the sub panel. Also make sure the ground and neutral bar are SEPERATE in the sub panel. Main panel always have them bonded. All sub panels must have them separated. Also apply some deoxit compound on those aluminum conductors!

Yes, lube would have helped. But its the 90 degree elbows that make pulling the heavy gage cable through. Great video as always, thanks for the entertainment!

I love working in the yard. I love working on all my landscaping machines. I do many Lawn Rebel type projects. However, my wife would have a heart attack if I started messing with the electricity to our home.

Your effort is unrivaled in your yard! My lawn is approximately 3k sq ft and I feel overwhelmed at times. Good for u!

What about the grounding rod?

Plot twist: the video is actually uploaded to see if the project was done correctly by reading the comments afterwards.

Yaaaay the Rasenfreak merch. Awesome stuff man, Andreas is gonna be happy af

Garden rake then a broom rake is the best way to backfill trenches.

The Legend says, that you sabotaged Ryan with the grass seed.

What do you use to fix the severed sprinkler wiring? Drycon or something more robust?

They sell products called Wire Slime which would have made the job much much easier snaking that long stretch. Little Veg oil works too. Also when backfilling a long trench like that, try using side of your work boot first, you can have most the dirt in by Foot and save the ol Back.

Don't light up like a plastic Santa Claus Connor. Great work.

awesome work you are doing Connor! and great exercise program you are doing! :D

The main service is at the house. The neutral and ground are bonded together. Make sure to keep them separate at the sub panel in the shed. Should have a separate ground bar. The sub panel for your shed should have a came with a green bonding screw. Do not install it. The neutrals and grounds need to be separate in sub panels.

Good job on putting glue on both pieces of pipe

Nice to see you are running Cat 5 to your shed. Interested to see how you are going to install the sub panel on the outside of the shed.

You have to do slot of trimmed for the inspector to pass you

Ein Rasenfreak T-Shirt... Er hat Geschmack 😄

Connor & Subcontractor Sister Ward never afraid of hard work.

Would definitely put a new clock for the sprinklers in the shed be much less complicated than trying to hook up to your existing and i dont think you would be able to fit many more zones on it cause i assume you have like 10-15 zones already.

What size is the main power lines?

What size wire did you use to travel that far of a distance?

That's gonna be one sweet shed when you're done!

Be careful buddy that bus is still hot

Damn, just realized I still have to pull the wires to my shed as well 🙈 I'll save it for the winter 😉

What size and type wire did you us and the distance?

Ryan Knorr will be jealous! Haha great job been following you from UK all year

I don't understand why the industrial standard doesn't gravitate towards feeding the wire through the conduits before the conduits are glued and connected . That the way I did it on a 240 foot line. Slide the conduit along the 4 cable wire then connect the conduit pipe

That’s what they make sure pulling lube for.... life changing experience!!!

Do they not have a version of Dig Rite in Utah to prevent people from digging through underground lines?

LOL way to deep in the northeast conduit has to be 4.5 feet deep with 6 inches of clean fill top and bottom

I'm doing the same project shortly... about a 100' run for me. It'll be so nice to finally have some power and lighting out there!. Beautiful Ninebark by the way, ever had any trouble with them getting mold? I had to toss mine because I just couldn't get them to grow without getting that damn white mold all over them ( generally from getting not enough airflow through the plant). Can you grow Hydrangeas out there? I've got several different varieties and probably close to 20 or them, very showy in the fall!. Keep up the great content Connor!.

Ryan Knorr could of never done that

“Let me trim these bushes”..... hacks everything😂😂😂

No permit or inspection for running service wires like that? I'm in the wrong area. Love it. Nice upload!

using dish soap on the wires does wonders to lube up

Did you use any lube on the wires when pulling them through the conduit?

You might want to waterproof any sockets (outlets) in the trany shed ,just in case that sail, I mean roof blows off.

Great Job! Nice looking shed!

“I guess I don’t know how electricity works” LOL Well it shows, Yet you keep on guessing

That trenching machine I does the job! The fire engine was coming as you were tackling the electrics and you know how you follow the safety rules 😂😂

I wanted to do this to my shed. The only thing I learned is that you need a trencher.

What size wire did you run?

Ryan knorr wouldn’t need gloves and could pull that by himself! I’m glad you used conduit tho.

... what size wires did you run to the shed?

Hey, completely off-topic but I have a question I haven’t been able to find an answer to anywhere. I live in Alberta Canada and my lawn along with everyone else’s goes completely brown and dormant in the winter which I know is normal, and my grass will be fine. My question is, in the spring do those brown blades turn green again or does the grass grow new blades? To me it seems like the answer is it grows new blades because every spring I end up with a lot of dead material that doesn’t go away. I’m asking because I’m already looking forward to spring as my lawn is already starting to go dormant, lol. I’m just wondering if I should just scalp all the dead stuff off in the spring so I don’t get matting like I have every other year even after a good raking and don’t have so much dead material in the lawn. Thanks!

love your videos ,all the best from the UK

Sister Ward is wearing a german „Rasenfreak“ shirt. Gorgeous!!!

What is the total distance is your CAT5 from hub to shed? (Feet?) also definitely you should run CAT6 for longer then 250 ft

I didn't see a ground with those feeders in that pvc

Those bushes needed to be cut a long time ago

They sell wire pulling jelly for this type of pulling.

The ground wire grounds to earth for safety reasons. Neutral is what completes the circuit.