Pantry Lighting

phoneman66 · Saturday at 8:15 PM

Hi Everyone, thank you for letting me participate. I have a small pantry in the kitchen that has no lighting. I have tried battery operated motion pucks but once the batteries go dead, you tend to forget to change them. I would like to be able to plug in some sort of LED strip lighting but in order to do that I need an outlet. There is a light switch right outside the pantry I would like to tap off of but I’m sure the box is attached to a stud. Long story short, can some provide advice on how they would tap off this light switch and put a power outlet inside the pantry? Thank you

I have photos but not sure how to attach them

phoneman66 · Saturday at 8:40 PM

Here are photos

phoneman66 · Monday at 1:50 PM

phoneman66 said:
Here are photos

westward10 · Monday at 1:52 PM

This is predominantly a UK based forum but @Megawatt may be able to help.

brianmoooore · 2025-02-04T13:19:09+0000

If that's all the wires that are behind the switch, then what you are wanting to do won't be as simple as you were hoping. You have the 'hot' wire and probably the ground, but no neutral.
Edit: If that switch is part of a '3 way', then you may not even have the hot.

phoneman66 · 2025-02-04T13:37:34+0000

brianmoooore said:
If that's all the wires that are behind the switch, then what you are wanting to do won't be as simple as you were hoping. You have the 'hot' wire and probably the ground, but no neutral.
Edit: If that switch is part of a '3 way', then you may not even have the hot.

Yeah, it is part of a 3 way switch. Any suggestions on how to light that pantry?

littlespark · 2025-02-05T07:03:14+0000

I see there’s an outlet on the same wall as the switch…. Is the outlet and switch on the same circuit, as I believe is the general way of doing things in US?

You might be able to get a hot and neutral from there up to the switch if there’s a conduit between…. Then through the wall into pantry