Using one power source for 3 switches

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Right when I walk in the door to the house, there are 3 switches. I want to add some can lights and make my switched outlet hot all the time. I want to know how to connect all three switches together so that I can have power to everything. (sorry that the text in the picture is hard to read, and IGNORE the red numbers)

I will be installing new can lighting. There is currently no wiring to the switch right now (the orange circles represent lights).
There is a porch light (orange) on the second switch, and there are no changes there.
The outlet in the garage(green thing with the orange light attached)has no changes.
The outlet in the living room has two wires running to it. It was a switched outlet but I don't want it to be anymore. I want to connect the white to the silver screw on the GFCI, and the black to the brass screw on the GFCI, labeling it "No equipment ground".

How do I connect the power source to all of the switches, and the switches to all of the outlets/lights so that they work? Does anyone have a diagram? Thanks!

E BIRD · Answer

The GFCI will not make your outlets hot all the time. Your wiring must come directly from the power supply not a switch. You can do this very easily in the 3 gang switch box you have, if you have enough space by bypassing the switches and tying your wires together with wire nuts. Hot wire to hot wire, nuetrals to nuetrals, ground to ground.As for your lights you have to have your wiring from the power supply(panel box) to your switch box.Pigtail your hot wire to each switch (brass screw), pigtail ground wire to each switch (green screw). Tie all your nuetrals together with a wire nut.

Answered by E BIRD on February 26, 2021

Using one power source for 3 switches

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