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It all depends on how the wires run within your walls and the interior construction of the walls, For example some walls have horizontal members that make it difficult to run vertical wires. In the simple case where you have a single wire feeding from above the current outlet you would cut a hole in sheetrock above the current outlet and install an old work outlet box. The hole is cut to the exact size of the box. Before installing the new box, turn off power and remove old box and pull wire into hole and then through entry hole in new box. The "old work" box has ears that snug up to the inside of the sheetrock and hold the box in place when you screw in the screw that runs through the ear. If you have a situation where you need to run new wire to the new higher box you may have to open another hole in wall to get access to the top of the old box. In all cases like this some sheetrock repair is inevitable. You just need to cut extra holes judiciously and save pieces for repair, or buy special patch kits.

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