Fishing Wire Through Walls From Attic

When cutting through drywall from the interior of a room use a utility knife and cut carefully you don t want to drill through a hidden wire or the paper.

Fishing wire through walls from attic.

This is usually a 2 person task. Now you should be ready to fish the wire. If you re working from the attic you can drop a weighted string down wall cavity then attach the wire to the string and pull it through. Have someone at the other end reach through the hole in the drywall grab the fish tape and pull it through with about a foot sticking out of the hole.

Learn how with this video. Fishing the wires through walls. This and subsequent steps will be easiest if you have a. Here s where you can get piano wire.

Most tract homes will have these framing members spaced apart at 16 24 inch intervals. If you will need to fish wiring through a wall drill a hole through the wood plate in the attic only. And use semi rigid wiring fish tape to pull your wiring down to your outlet location. If you want to bring the wire up to the attic tie something to a string and lower it through the hole from above.

It will not support you and you could fall through. Run the wire or cable to its destination. As you move through the attic notice the triangular trusses supporting the roof. I ll be showing tricks to cut lots of time off fishing wires in walls.

When you find the hole in the wall plate remove the wire then uncoil the end of an electrician s fish tape and insert it through the drilled hole in the wall plate. From the basement or attic push the wire fish tape through the hole you have drilled. Once the string reaches the bottom go down to the lower opening and tie the cable and string together. For more in depth informatino about running fis.

Run electrical cable through walls and across ceilings without tearing them apart. If you drill too early you ll end up creating a large insulation cotton candy cone which will make retrieving your bit difficult if not impossible. Attach the wire or cable to a fish tape or coat hanger using electrical tape and feed it into the hole until it reaches the opening at the other end. Thread the fish tape.

Pull the string from above to fish the wire through.