We conduct light on the balcony

This is my first article, I am just starting, so please do not judge strictly. In this article, I will share my personal experience and tell you how to conduct light on a glazed balcony. Simply, if it is not glazed, then why is there light?

When there is a window frame on the balcony, there are plans to sheathe the walls with a rail, to insulate the floor, light in this room is simply necessary.

So, you need to hold the light on the balcony. Where to begin? With an assessment of the situation. From which the bulb will be powered by electricity.

And here the question arises, is it that I should pull a cable from the meter or something? Oooh ... I’ll give a better flashlight. Or, if the house is old, then all the wiring is in the ceiling plate and only there, look for the power cable and pull it from the balcony. As a rule, all ceiling twists, it is better not to touch, but for good, change the wiring completely in the whole apartment to copper.

What to do? And let's eat from a regular outlet! Is there such a thing? Still not far from the balcony? Here is the solution!

What do we need? Firstly, when working with electricity, always carry a voltage indicator light with you. It looks like an ordinary screwdriver, only in a transparent case and inside the LED. When brought to the phase, the diode glows. This means that the mains voltage has a place to be. Go out into the corridor, because you have a counter there? And turn off the machines, dropping them down. Electricity in the apartment is disconnected.

Well, you can start. Measure the distance from the outlet to the balcony wall and, taking into account the thickness of this wall itself, measure the distance to the ceiling. At least 150 mm will need to be retreated from the ceiling and only there you can fix the junction box into which all the wires will come. But first things first.

Measure the distance and cut the cable. And take a copper cable with a wire section of 2x3.5 or 2x4. For network cable do not try to take less. The cable is cut off, everything is ready, but how to attach it to the wall, what would be nice?

You can make a shtroba, drown the cable and putty over. Do you need it? Buy a cable channel and hide it in it. First fix the channel, then lay the cable and close the channel with a lid. In the wall, in a straight line from the outlet, you need to drill a hole for the cable to pass. This is best done with a punch.

Next, remove your outlet, if the cable to the outlet is aluminum, then the ends of the copper cable are best tinned with a soldering iron. But best of all use terminal block for connectionbecause the 2x4 section is still not small and most likely will not enter the socket terminals.

We take the terminal strip, insert the ends into it, which come into the outlet. Next, cut off the small tail of the copper cable, you can already have a smaller cross section, 2x2.5, 3x2.5, we clean the ends and fasten with pliers to the ends of the network cable 2x3.5 or 2x4. The resulting twisting insert into the free end of the terminal block. In the outlet we start the ends from a small tail and put it in place. The electrical network is ready.

More interesting. We go out to the balcony and pretend to install a junction box. From the ceiling of at least 150 mm and can be installed. If you will sew up a balcony with a lath, then the box will go special, for mounting on wood or in drywall. Then we look where the light bulb will be. On the ceiling? Good! Attach a 2x2.5 or 3x2.5 copper cable (on a 3x2.5 cable one wire will be redundant. This is a yellow-green wire. Just cut it off).

You can fix the cable on special fasteners with a nail, sold in bundles, each 50 pieces, or even easier and much more reliable, drill several holes along the length of the cable with a puncher, insert dowels into them, and wind the wires around the dowel head. When you insert the cable, simply wire it to the wall or ceiling. Very comfortably.

Have a light bulb cable? Well, then we draw the cable from the switch in the same way.Wherever you want the light to turn on, there will be a switch. We put all ends of the cables into a box, from the mains, a light bulb and a switch, and you probably also want to put a socket on it. You are welcome! Fasten the cable according to the example and the ends into the box. Got 8 ends? Right?

Now the main thing is for the circuit to work, the ends of the wires must be twisted or, as it is more correctly said, soldered. Do you have a network, there are two wires, take them to the side, then, two wires from the light bulb, are they taken away? Then two wires from the switch and two from the outlet.

Let's start with the simplest thing, use the pliers to wind the ends of the network cable and the cable that comes from the outlet. Try to rewind by color. Did you take a look? Excellent. Then connect the cable that comes from the light bulb to these two coiled ends. Use a pair of pliers to wrap the phase wire from the bulb (usually blue) to the coiled end, most likely also blue.

Done? Good. To white or better to say to the free end of the twist, wind the wire from the switch, observing color coloring. Done. There are two free ends left. Right? Yes it is. One from the light bulb, the second from the switch. Connect them.

You can insulate the twist with electrical tape, but best of all, do this with connecting cap "PPE". It is simply screwed up to twist. Hide the wires in the box, close it with a lid, and one more thing, then screw the bulb. At least temporarily, you can also put it on the terminal strip. That's all, go to the corridor and turn on the machines. Everything works. Now you have a light on your balcony!

Good luck !!!

June 17, 2011