How To Install Hardwired Under Cabinet Lighting: Steps & Items Needed


Steps & Items Needed To Install Hardwired Under Cabinet Lighting

Do you want to install some decorative lights under your cabinets but you are facing some issues while doing this, you don't need to worry, we are here to help you out. You just need to collect the given items and then follow all the given steps. Here are the item list & steps for this process:

Items Needed

  • Screwdriver
  • Wire Strippers
  • Wire Fish & Drywall Saw
  • Wire Nuts & Drill With Keyhole Saw
  • Electrical Tape & Electrical Wire
  • Pressure Connectors

Steps For This Process

  • Disconnect The Power: First of all, start locating the correct breaker before turning off your power supply outlet where you will connect the lights.
  • Attach The Lights: Next position your lights according as laid them out before. Take aside your lights & then screw them where you want to set them. To make this easier, simply use a pencil in order to mark the bottom of your cabinets.
  • Cut The Wall: This step will depend on the backsplash, you have to peel it away from point of the installing light area. Then cut a channel but make sure to cut it behind the backsplash by simply using the drywall saw & this channel should be scratch from under switch box to right near the furthest light. Finally, it's time to use your drill machine to bore a hole through with the studs, this will help you to run the wire.
  • Run The Wire: Start this step from the bottom of each cabinet by using a drill machine again to create a hole for this wire for each light to come over because here you might need the wire fish to run your wires down the wall from one fixture, through with the channel & to next fixture.
  • Run The Cord: Start with the farthest fixture from your switch, run your electrical wire from one fixture to another. Try to leave about 1 foot of your cord at each opening. At this farthest fixture, you will now have a floor of your cord hanging out the end & this fixture next to it will have the 2 cords hanging out( 1 entering & 1 exiting). Repeat this step for every light until you will get to 1 adjacent to your switch. The light mostly need 1 length of wire coming from your switch box and 1 leaving the light on the other side.
  • Connect The Lights: Segregate your electrical wire inside each light, abstracted your wires if needed and remove about 3/4 inch of the insulation from them. At the closest fixture to your switch connect all the wires nuts. You now need to connect the black wire(fixture) with 1 wire on the electrical wire in your wall with the plug on the end & then 1 wire heading to your next fixture. Do the same for your white fixture wire.
  • Wire The Switch: Next, at your switch outlet, be sure that the electricity is not on & then remove the receptacle. Bind your white wire & all the connecting strand of cord together with the help of a wire nut. Screw your black wire on the outlet onto the bottom switch terminal & screw your black wire that goes out to your lights into the switch's top terminal.
  • Cover Your Work: Cover your switch's terminals by simply wrapping it with the electrical tape and then screw all the switch back into your box. Attach your switch cover.
  • Test The Lights: Next, restore the power to your lights & then flip the switch in order to see whether they are working or not.
  • Patch Things Up: Finally, you can now redo the drywall that you have to slice away for your wire channel & reattach the backsplash.
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