New outlet fed from switch?

Hello all, I am doing some minor renovations in my living room and the decision was made to relocate the television to above the fireplace. I've done this in a previous home except I was able to run wire directly from the new outlet location straight back to the panel. This home has a drywall ceiling in the basement so that would be possible.

There is a switch to the right of the fireplace that turns the fireplace on and off, I took the cover plate off and I see there are three black wires hooked up to the switch itself. Two on the bottom and one at the top, there are also three white wires all wire nutted together and the grounds are twisted and clamped together. Am I able to wire this with some new wire and get constant power to a new outlet that won't be controlled by the switch?

If so, I would really appreciate how to do so

If you need more info on how it looks now I can take some pictures.

Thank you!

 

Do you mean one on the screw and one inserted into the back?

 

Thank you for the very fast reply Ray, here is a pic I took that hopefully gives you a better idea of the switch.

 

Good. Background: What you have is two wires on the bottom that best practice should have been connected to a pigtail and the pigtail to the screw. Instead they used the backstab as a splice. One of those blacks is power in and one is power to somewhere else. In this case which of those blacks is power in doesn't matter. Those two blacks along with the black to the new receptacle will be connected to a pigtail and the pigtail to the screw. The white for the receptacle goes to the bundle of whites in the box. Best practice the other black on the switch should be moved to the screw because backstab connections tend to fail.

Note this is probably only a 15 amp circuit so you should make sure that it has enough capacity for an added receptacle.

 

Ray - just wanted to follow up and say this worked perfectly. Thank you for sorting me out on this.

 

Good, you got it. Thanks for letting us know the outcome.