Installing Masonry Electrical Box

How to install a receptacle in a brick wall.

Installing masonry electrical box.

Masonry boxes are manufactured from durable pre galvanized steel and are designed to house and protect electrical wiring switches and receptacles in masonry walls. You may want the convenience of an electrical outlet in the middle of your bare brick wall. Although surface mounted receptacles are easy to install setting a receptacle. As you might have already guessed this meant mounting my new outlet in a new box to a masonry wall.

Putting an electrical box into brick requires some chiseling. Hope it helps in your diy projects. The national electric code has another definition for damp locations that is more subjective but if you think the receptacle is going to get wet use an in use. The national electrical code defines a wet location as an area that is subject to saturation with water or other liquids and unprotected locations exposed to the weather.

All steel boxes are ul listed and acceptable for use in 2 hour fire rated walls and ceilings. Absolute raging fan of the handy box single gang metal box often with rounded corners handy box cover receptacle i used a spare one in ivory a ground pigtail wire in this case about 8 foot of 14 gauge thhn solid wire in some. Because the wires are also exposed the metal conduit is required. These boxes protect wiring from the elements with gaskets sealed seams and watertight covers.

Please subscribe for more vi. Since that time the interior walls of many houses apartments and lofts have been stripped back to reveal bare brick. Hi in this video i m showing how to install electrical metal back box in a solid brick wall. Other plastic box considerations.

A typical installation in these cases involves attaching the exposed box directly to a masonry wall. Using metal sheathed wiring with plastic electrical boxes without taking other grounding measures severs that ground and is highly dangerous. A receptacle can be set into a wall or mounted flush on the surface. Installing an outlet box in concrete block can be challenging.

It houses a single electrical switch or outlet and comes in metal or nonmetallic units. Different electrical box sizes fit varying installation needs.