Stunning Separating An Outlet From A Light Switch
Grab your new outlet and locate the connecting piece that bridges the top brass colored screw with the bottom brass colored screw.
Separating an outlet from a light switch. Removing this piece means that only one of the receptacles will be powered by the light switch leaving the other receptacle always on for other devices. If not then the light switch will simply turn off the whole outlet as well as the entire circuit following that outlet. Without getting too detailed.
Your choices are to run a separate line from the electrical box to the outlet or run a separate line from the hot lines in the light switch box to the outlet. If you confirm that the power source runs through the switch box you will not be able to separate the light and the outlet without running a new wire someplace. This is a step by step tutorial.
If that is the case you will have to pull another romex cable between the switch and either the light or the outlet your choice whichever pull is easier for you. But if you remove the light bulb and turn the switch off the only place that will measure 110 volts will be the two wires coming from the electrical panel. To add an outlet to a light switch you start by making a pigtail using the hot wire the wire going to the fixture controlled by the switch and a third length of wire.
Hook up the outlet as you normally would. You then splice all the white wires and all the ground wires in the switch box together.