Does anyone know how to wire a double wall outlet one side a switch the other a plug in i need help please ?
If you don’t have 3 insulated conductors present in the box, unless you have a conduit raceway system installed; hire a qualified licensed electrical contractor. The same goes, if you do not have a switch installed that already controls the receptacle. If you find you have aluminum or copper coated aluminum wiring; hire a qualified person. If you have the requisite 3 conductors (and one is always “hot”), you are in luck. Start by breaking off the gold or brass colored bridge between the two ungrounded (“hot”) terminals. Next, install a 6″-8″ “pigtail” (matching the insulation of the conductors) on the white, grounded or “neutral” conductor and on the ungrounded conductor supplying the “always hot” terminal. (When you have one neutral conductor serving more than one circuit, you must be able to remove any device attached to the neutral without leaving the neutral “open” down the circuit somewhere.) Next, land the switch leg conductor on the other ungrounded terminal. If you have metal d
Take the black wire from the feed and wire nut two black wires to it. Take one of those wires and connect it to the switch. Take the other and feed the bottom outlet on your receptacle. Break the tab on the “hot side” (probably gold or bronze colored screws) ONLY. Do not break the tab on the neutral side ( Silver screws) Now connect a black wire from the other screw on your switch to the top side of the outlet. Now for the white wires ( nuetral) just connect the white wire from the feed to the silver side of the outlet. That’s it. Good Luck!!
To be clear, you have one hot wire (black) and one neutral wire (white) that connect to your outlet. The hot side of an outlet usually has copper colored screws. The hot wire can be “jumped” between one post on the outlet, to the bottom of the switch. Then use the top post on the switch to go to your fixture. The white wires on a switch will be tied directly to the white wire for the fixture, using a wire nut.
