How to mark up the walls and ceiling for wiring ?

Preparations

first step is to prepare the tools and documentation, based on which the electricity counting will be carried out in the rooms.With regard to the documents, you must provide the wiring circuit in the house.On the basis of this project, you will understand where it is and, in fact, which will be run electrical cables.Looks electrical circuit as follows:

draw your attention to the fact that the scheme should be required to indicate the exact place of placing lamps, sockets, switches, and all fixed appliances.

In addition to this you will need the tools through which the wiring layout is performed.Available for only buy a special cable marker, it looks as follows:

addition to cable will need a marker, bubble level, a plumb, a tape measure and a ruler.If you are often doing construction work, it is advisable to purchase a laser level, due to which the walls and ceiling layout is much simpler.

more expensive - laser level, with which you can mark up the walls and ceiling for wiring in both the vertical and horizontal plane.The only thing - the cost of such leveling is quite high, so for a single electrical installation does not make sense to buy this product.In this case, we recommend to make a laser level with his own hands.

addition necessarily need a steady ladder, to mark the top of the ceiling and walls.

What is important to consider?

Before marking a wiring note one very important caveat - if the repairs in the house is just beginning, and you want to mark the place of cable lines laying in the future may occur significant error for the following reasons:

1. floor raised.For example, after the wiring you decide to make an additional electric floor heating with heating cable.In this case, the floor will rise not less than 10 cm (given tile).If you have already made Stroebe a socket at a height of 30 cm (minimum height, which is recommended), then after the installation of underfloor heating, this height will be reduced to 20 cm.
2. Lowering the ceiling.The opposite situation - after you have taken out a wire to connect the chandelier (usually 15 cm is left in reserve), the decision to make a suspended ceiling.Bottom line - it is necessary to build up a wire to connect the chandelier, which is not very good.

sometimes the decision to align the walls with a rough finish drywall or rearrange the refrigerator to another location Besides these two frequent situations.All this must be taken into consideration before marking the wiring in the apartment, becausefurther correction can be very time consuming.

How to partition walls and ceiling?

Here we come to the most interesting places - how to make a wiring layout with their hands.We offer to your attention the technology marking work on the ceiling and walls.

First you need without much precision to draw on the walls, where it will be installed.This will give an idea and show where you need to carry cables.Mark the place of installation of all sockets, junction boxes, switches and fixed appliances (refrigerator, stove, electric boilers, etc.).An example can be seen on the photo:

begin work must be with the electrical panel on which the wiring route will divorce through all the rooms.The first thing mark where realized the cable entry into the apartment (a private house), as well as the cable from the electrical panel will be held to the rooms.Typically the route passes from the top, from the ceiling 20 cm, but in some cases it is possible and lower gasket lines (20 cm from the floor).Main normalized distance that you need to be guided, are provided on the scheme:

also recommend to get acquainted with the most suitable places for the installation of sockets in the kitchen:

to hold a flat horizontal line along the walls, it is recommended to use the building level, and markercord.Do better with a partner, to be uncomfortable.One person records the cord at the starting point, while the second holds it until the end.Then you need to stretch the cord to withdraw from the wall 30-40 cm and released.As a result, must remain a clear trail, which is a markup wiring.To get a flat line instead of the level, you can simply take a distance from the ceiling to the start and end point.

To lower down the road (to the sockets and switches), it is necessary to make a vertical line.To do this it is best to use a plumb line.Fix the free end of the rope at the top, and the plummet descends to the installation of electric points.On it you can mark the wall for wiring in the vertical plane.The only caveat - make sure that nothing prevented the plumb line (for example, surface roughness).

In this case, mark the wall with laser level will be much easier, becauseit is already mounted bubble level, which will show how exactly the line passes.

should be noted that the layout under the fasteners should be done regarding the installation of the center, and if you need to mark the area under the mounting brackets, the line should be two.

When marking the walls under the wiring is complete, you must go to the ceiling.Well, if you are going to install a chandelier, and one.In this case, a diagonal, and the place of their intersection will be the center of the room.For convenience, you can hold the diagonal on the floor, and then using the plumb bob to calculate where the center of the ceiling will be (pick up a plumb from the ceiling and adjust the accommodation to bob is directly over the intersection of the diagonals).The layout of the diagonals of the easiest to perform colored cord.

If you want to install some ceiling lights, you have to first make the center line.For this room is divided in half, and then carried out diagonally in the rectangles formed.An example is shown in the diagram on the right.

about how to place lights on the ceiling, we described in the relevant article, which provided the most popular devices layout.Finally

recommend that you review the video, which clearly shows the procedure:

That's the markup technology wiring in the apartment and the house.As you can see, nothing complicated, important to take into account the recommendations provided and act with a partner.

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