House Wiring Plan Symbols

The placement of the outlets for all the electrical items in your home can have a significant impact on the design of your home.

House wiring plan symbols. When performing any electrical wiring whether it is a room remodel project or a new home many things need to be identified in order to get a full understanding. Electric symbols on blueprints. If you want to make sense of electric symbols on your blueprints then you ve come to the right place.

The most commonly used electrical blueprint symbols including plug outlets switches lights and other special symbols such as door bells and smoke detectors are shown in the figure below. These symbols which are drawn on top of the floor plan show lighting outlets receptacle outlets special purpose outlets fan outlets and switches. Explanations for common household electrical items such as three way switches and switched duplex plug outlets are below the figure.

There are several other electrical wiring symbols used in residential and commercial wiring but the above list of symbols are the important ones. Wiring diagrams and symbols for home electrical wiring not only do wiring symbols show us where something is to be installed but what the electrical device is that will be installed. Wiring diagrams use simplified symbols to represent switches lights outlets etc.

Here is a standard wiring symbol legend showing a detailed documentation of common symbols that are used in wiring diagrams home wiring plans and electrical wiring blueprints.