How to Install Fiesta String Lights | All About Lights | Ask This Old House
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Scott Caron, master electrician for Ask This Old House, helps a homeowner install fiesta string lights to get the party started in Texas. (See below for a shopping list, tools, and steps.)
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Shopping List for How to Install Fiesta String Lights:
String lights
LED replacement bulbs
Flexible conduit
Wire conductors
Stainless-steel guide wires
Wire nuts
Stainless-steel eye hooks
S-hooks
Stainless-steel tension
Tools for How to Install Fiesta String Lights:
Pliers
Driver
Steps for How to Install Fiesta String Lights:
1. Find an existing power source and turn off the electricity.
2. Measure out the amount of flexible conduit needed to extend to the outdoor light switch box.
3. Fit three separate wire conductors (instead of a pre-made cable) through the flexible conduit and into the existing power source.
4. Splice the existing wires to the new wire conductors with pliers and cover with wire nuts.
5. Reconnect the outlet.
6. Using a driver, screw in the outdoor light switch box.
7. Feed the flexible conduit into the outdoor light switch box.
8. Using a driver, screw in the outdoor outlet box.
9. Feed a second set of flexible conduit/wiring into the outdoor outlet box.
10. Splice wires together at both boxes using pliers and wire nuts.
11. Using stainless-steel eye hooks, run two stainless-steel guide wires under stainless-steel tension across the roof.
12. Using S-hooks, crisscross the string lights across the guide wires.
13. Plug in the string lights cord.
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Love keyboard electricians. He did a good job on a budget probably. Nothing wrong with his install, improved a hack job that would have failed eventually.
I'd love to see the homes of the keyboard electricians and see how many code violations I could find.
exactly like there are times that we could have done something differently to improve our jobs and we just oversee the little things!
Keyboard electricians 😅
I'm always disappointed by the amount of negative comments on this channel.
Really, I am an electrician so I make comments. Don't care about people sensitive feelings
I like the idea of hanging them from s hooks, but it seems like they could slide around or even fall off in windy conditions if you dont secure them with a zip tie or maybe squeeze down the hook so its no wide open like that
Why didn't he use a GFCI outlet?
because he is a hack
+Parker Smith it depends on your area. A lot of times if its under a weather proof cover like the one he installed there is no need for a GFCI. I always say "code" stands for the least amount of work a contractor has to do to keep you from suing him
Could be connected to a GFCI inside the house or a GFCI breaker..
@Mike Dorman or AFCI
@@amauryadams402 Not the same thing. Big difference on where they are installed.
"...these little ass hooks?" 5:03 LOL!
S hooks but sure
I thought he said that also
Sounds more like glass hooks
Now eventhough it was not mentioned in the video, we can assume, the circuit is on a GFCI. (For the DIYers.)
WOW, hiring an electrician for a few strings lights would cost a fortune - The lights connect to an outdoor extension as long as you have an outdoor electrical connection -- plug them in and you are good to go.
why did he put the outlet in the middle of the wall? it looked like he'd be able to keep it under the awning of the screen porch, and thus out of the way?
No, that's where the cats hang out.
probably so both cords could reach the outlet they skipped that part i guess he had to put eye hooks in siding for lights going over to outlets
Looks good! Got a picture of how it looks at night?!
“We don’t have to be fussy” 😂
I need to get one of those outdoor waterproof light switch covers...
he made the flex look good
I wish you can come do my yard. That looks amazing!!!!
No gfci outlet? I know the box is weather proof but
Thats a lotta flex
Fail that inside plug should be GFCI load side out to the patio.
Expensive switch repair!
Great video
He should've installed a GFCI protected outlet on the deck. Hopefully there is a GFCI breaker in the panel.
Hmmm. Maybe the circuit was already GFCI protected. I don't put a GFI on a circuit that is already protected
Don L you'd be surprised how many people do that they wore everything LINE in and LINE out (LINE LINE)
Well, the outlet cover is already closed so there would be no problem
pepsicolachao the cover has nothing to do with that. If there is something plugged in to the receptacle and the appliance gets wet or an extension cord has an exposed wire, that is a high risk for someone getting hurt.
Incredible
Good job! Looks amazing!😀
Right by his guide wire it looks like there is a floodlight. He could have used a screw in outlet connector there, plugged in the lights, and they would be switched. Want GFI? Put a GFI circuit in the breaker box.
Do you mean instead of the floodlight? No one would want a floodlight on at the same time as patio lights.
Wait, where is the dimmer?
OK Scott, you forgot to tell everybody that the circuit was GFI protected. What a debate.
5:04 what he say
+Corinthian Foulks "Just with these little "S" hooks" ???
yup just with these little s hooks
I think adding the outdoor outlet was smart.
I would've just ran that conduit 48" up and stopped right there with it, put in a quad box, duplex receptacle on one half, switched receptacle on the other half with the lights plugged into it. That way its reachable and multipurpose for the whole patio.
I agree, that after going to all the work of running an outlet would be nice if you could use it on the deck for other things. Maybe he wanted to keep the circuit low draw because he tapped into an existing circuit? Even thou he used low watt draw led/s, he still didn't seem to trust this lady around power! I wouldn't after seeing the initial setup. Also, i would have crimped the S hooks on the cable tighter to prevent any chance of coming off the cables.
he could have still run the conduit up high for a switched outlet and put in an always on outlet down at table height for a radeo on da padio
I wish I could put homeowners to work on my jobs
5:03 "with these little-ass hooks"
Grindstone he did say little ass hooks 😆
Grindstone they let that one slip by there editing lol.
Dude I thought the same thing!
The catenary cable can be used to hang your laundry too. That's a two'fer.
A swaged ferrule or even a Gripple would look better than saddling a horse with a bunch of crosby U clamps.
Those black lights seem awfully big, black and industrial for a porch. I bet she ripped them down and put her Christmas lights back up.
My OCD anal nature would have me removing all of those plastic clips before pulling the old lights down.
Blaine Bugaski shut up
Looks nice, but too much for me. I'd rather cut a little notch in the door for the cord. ;)
if he managed to just tuck conduit through screen porch wall, she could have just run cord through there also. but those little Christmas lights are not made for year-round use the wires start to pull out on them from hanging and swaying in the wind with sunlight breaking down plastic
5:06
His voice crack had me dying
What the hell about these lights make them "fiesta" lights?
Popular in Spanish restaurants
you just string lights above a patio like in restaurants and leave them up year-round our city does it in downtown trees and patios and they use Christmas lights like she had that are not for year-round use the fall apart after a while in wind and sun aparently code inspection does not apply to the city
My first thought when he slid that conduit from inside to outside was "I know how the rats are getting in"
nice
I love the guy who on almost every video on electric has to point out "HERE COMES THE KEYBOARD ELECTRICIANS" Dude get over yourself lol
All trades have their trolls
2:50 Don't be afraid to twist those grounds, Scotty....And you forgot the GFI. "Short Cut Caron" is back, baby.....
i like the hobbit
lol
she had a legit fire hazard, that's ok. she was worried about power consumption though. hahaha
Isn't that bit scripted? They do that to answer questions the viewer might have.
I like the Christmas lights much better, which are already approved for outdoor usage. All they had to do is run the plug though the wall to the indoor outlet!
I need you man
NO COMMENT.
Why not just use a water proof switch
wow that acting
Best Comment!
Good solution but cmon use EMT conduit to run that stuff, we would get knocked by the inspectors if we use plastic boxes and liquid tight flex conduit, Chicago code doesn’t comply with this but at least he made it look a bit clean.
That's because Chicago has a bunch of idiots in charge.
What a waste I would've used the old Christmas lights!!!!!!
Ive been watching these videos a lot and every time he uses a slotted screwdriver to install plugs and switches i die a little more inside. Americans need to embrace the Robertson screwdrivers lol
the really annoying part is even if you have square drive or the combo square slotted screwdriver you have to use a Philips or slotted on screws holding outlet to box then a small slotted for the cover plate anyway, they keep upgrading outlet screws to new better ones but can't make them all the same
It doesn’t even look bad I would’ve left it
I hate wire nuts. I know they are code but all they are are places for loose connections to start. Just putting wires back in box is enough movement to loosen the connection. There are many different and superior ways of making electrical connections but somehow code has not changed.
richb313 I agree. Many years ago when i first saw those twist connectors i couldn't believe that they connect whole houses that way. Some terminal blocks are way more proper already. Or solder it. But who am i to deviate from "The Code".
I've only installed a few thousand without any problems, if you know what you're doing
Don L key phrase "know what your doing." lol
What's the better way?
WAGO-connectors for example. These connectors here are rated for 32A/450V and can connect solid, stranded, fine-stranded wires together. They've got the CENELEC- (Europe) and UL-certification (US and Canada):
global.wago.com/en/products/product-catalog/terminal-blocks-connectors/installation-connectors/compact-splicing-connectors-all-conductor-types-221-series/index.jsp
Just strip the wires about 11mm (a bit less than 1/2"), open a lever, put the wire into the connector and close the lever. Done. You can put fine-stranded wires into the connector after stripping, no soldering or bootlace ferrules necessary.
Those boxes are such an eyesore, so unnecessary big
Running all that flex conduit looks tacky. EMT is a much cleaner job.
Why would he use flexible conduit? That looks horrible!
Scott, did I hear you say 'guide wires'?... eye yi yi.
Does this guy know how to bend pipe...that sealtight is awful.
He is trying to demonstrate a project that someone with modest DIY skills can undertake. Pipe bending is not going to inspire homeowners to tackle these jobs themselves, but rather leave it to the experts. And yes, he is a master electrician and I'm confident he can and does bend pipe from time to time.
@@steveloux4709 he could have also used premade pvc conduit bends if he is being diy friendly
GFCI?????
Colin Beirne, right?
Safeman4202 it might be on a GFCI breaker.
Colin Beirne, possibly but you need to have a GFCI on that kind of breaker. There could be one though
It might not always be the case
But these will fuse when it rains.
the external power outlet would always have it's water proof door open to plug in the lights thus defeating the purpose.
+Michael Latham He used an "In Use" aka bubble cover over the outlet. It has provisions to be closed with the wire plugged in.
Wrong....he used the right cover.
Ok...ok...ok...ok...ok... what's that? Let me school you.
Seriously...you don't put up lights like these and be concerned about power consumption...TV acting at its finest...
too much metal
What a goofy broad
cyberline3 sa
This chic is fricken simple minded has no common sense, she is more worried about those dumbass lights in that ugly space than the cord underneath the screedoor
I always hated that lighting style, it looks like crap.
I think I hate the actor
You can make it yourself, just loook and learn from INPLIX .
There's only 2 things that could be wrong with this.
1) I don't know if he wired that outlet from a GFCI outlet because if it's not a GFCI outlet, then it's a bit of a risk.
2) This isn't really something wrong, but I prefer the outdoor boxes that allow for it to still be a waterproof seal while having something plugged in.
Other than those 2 things, it's a fine job. You keyboard electricians just need to shut up already.
the outlet he put in had a clear cover for watertight in use
I guess we are supposed to assume there is a gfi breaker or outlet somewhere on that circuit
I may have just stumbled upon the cringiest video on youtube
Walking head job
Love keyboard electricians. He did a good job on a budget probably. Nothing wrong with his install, improved a hack job that would have failed eventually.
Except we don't know if the original outlet is GFCI protected.