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[airbiscuit]

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[yanmars]

The drywall covered a light switch on a remodel I had done about 35 years ago. It was the old popcorn/glitter . I was able to find it and cut out the needed area without having the contractor back. Did not even have a stud finder then.

 

[dstig1]

Don't the outlet boxes stick out 1/2" from the stud (or in your case, the OSB surface) to protrude through to the surface of the sheetrock? If so, how in the heck could they cover them without bowing out the sheetrock?? If not, doesn't that create a problem mounting the switch or outlet to the box?

Oh it happens! And it bows the drywall too, but not always enough to tell until you start scratching your head saying "now I swore I put an outlet here"... Then you look more closely and it become obvious. I swear every drywall job misses one or two...

 

[BleedingOrange]

I might have missed it, but which way did the OP instal the outlets ? Ground hole up, or down, and what was the decision based on ?

 

[gary49]

I had a job where the previous general contractor had been fired and had stiffed his subs and they weren’t coming back. The house was at the finished drywall stage. The drywall guy had covered 8 boxes in a not particularly big house. The owner had fortunately taken a lot of pre drywall pictures. I found and cut out all of them with no drywall repair required. Pictures really helped and there is generally a bulge in the drywall where the box has been covered. Zircon also makes a stud finder with voltage detection that can help find a covered box, but you need to trim out the circuit up to the point where the box is covered and turn on the breaker to get voltage to the covered box. The stud finder is about $54 at Lowes.

 

[BigBlue1]

There are a bunch of studfinders that can locate cold electric wire too, but how well depends on how deep the wire is. Hopefully in a box the wire is pretty close to drywall back.

 

[Threepoint]

I had a job where the previous general contractor had been fired and had stiffed his subs and they weren’t coming back. The house was at the finished drywall stage. The drywall guy had covered 8 boxes in a not particularly big house. The owner had fortunately taken a lot of pre drywall pictures. I found and cut out all of them with no drywall repair required. Pictures really helped and there is generally a bulge in the drywall where the box has been covered. Zircon also makes a stud finder with voltage detection that can help find a covered box, but you need to trim out the circuit up to the point where the box is covered and turn on the breaker to get voltage to the covered box. The stud finder is about $54 at Lowes.

When we were preparing to build our house in Northern Virginia many years ago, someone recommended that I do a walk-around with a video camera just prior to the rough-in inspection. I borrowed a buddy's VHS cassette camera to do this, and it has turned out to be some of the best advice I ever got on home construction! I walked around narrating the video , imagining I was hosting a This Old House episode. To this day, I can go back and see where every electrical cable, junction box, plumbing pipe and air duct is located. To say nothing of the nostalgia, 30 years later!

 

[ovrszd]

When we were preparing to build our house in Northern Virginia many years ago, someone recommended that I do a walk-around with a video camera just prior to the rough-in inspection. I borrowed a buddy's VHS cassette camera to do this, and it has turned out to be some of the best advice I ever got on home construction! I walked around narrating the video , imagining I was hosting a This Old House episode. To this day, I can go back and see where every electrical cable, junction box, plumbing pipe and air duct is located. To say nothing of the nostalgia, 30 years later!

I did a lot of still pics inside. I also Droned the outside direct overhead. Easy to find my service burials.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I might have missed it, but which way did the OP instal the outlets ? Ground hole up, or down, and what was the decision based on ?

I put ground up on the refrigerator outlet and after asking here I started doing fround down for the rest of them. I will switch the refrigerator one as well, eventually,

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I took measurements from multiple house corners to key items.