How To Pull Wire Through Attic

Fishing the wires is quite easy when you attach them with a fish tape or a pull wire.

How to pull wire through attic. It may take some finessing as the tip of the fish tape blade passes through the drilled hole in the wall plate. Wires can then be attached to the end of a fish tape and pulled down to their final locations. Here i ll focus on the work of the attic rat the poor slob whose job it is to crawl through the attic space running wires s he must pull wires from the main panel location out to each alarm device in the system. Running wires comes next.

Cut a hole for each box with a drywall saw or a saw appropriate for the wall material then feed the wires down from the attic or up from the basement toward each hole using a fish tape or a fish stick and have a helper catch them and pull them through. 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 backing of the attic insulation. Learn how with this video. When working from an attic space.

Once through do not pull the drill out unchuck the bit and leave in place. From a attic a basement or a crawl space an electrical tape is used to fix one end of the cable on a hook on a fish belt. Pull wire through wall conduit. If you will need to fish wiring through a wall drill a hole through the wood plate in the attic only.

Label both ends of each cable for easy identification before pulling it. This video is. Be gentle as you fish the cable through the hole since it is important not to tear the sheathing on the. If you want to bring the wire up to the attic tie something to a string and lower it through the hole from above.

When you must deal with an attic space because you can t run the cable by simply pushing up the ceiling tiles there a few things to consider. Pull enough cable or wire s to work with and press into the box s opening. Once the string reaches the bottom go down to the lower opening and tie the cable and string together. Pull security camera wires.

And use semi rigid wiring fish tape to pull your wiring down to your outlet location. Wrap the bare wire through the fish tape eye and twist the end of the wire around itself. Fish the cable. Place the electrical tape over the end of the fish tape eye and wire.

From the attic or basement pull steadily on the fish tape while a helper feeds the cable into the wall opening. For more in depth informatino about running fis. From the beginning of the wall conduit pull the fish tape slowly and carefully pull the cable until it reach to the wall opening. Continue drilling until 6 inches 15 2 cm or so have been pushed into the hole.