How To Pull Wire Through Attic

If you want to bring the wire up to the attic tie something to a string and lower it through the hole from above.

How to pull wire through attic.

Once through do not pull the drill out unchuck the bit and leave in place. This video is. Continue drilling until 6 inches 15 2 cm or so have been pushed into the hole. Running wires comes next.

Place the electrical tape over the end of the fish tape eye and wire. When working from an attic space. Pull security camera wires. If you will need to fish wiring through a wall drill a hole through the wood plate in the attic only.

Wires can then be attached to the end of a fish tape and pulled down to their final locations. Run electrical cable through walls and across ceilings without tearing them apart. Pull wire through wall conduit. Wrap the bare wire through the fish tape eye and twist the end of the wire around itself.

Label both ends of each cable for easy identification before pulling it. It may take some finessing as the tip of the fish tape blade passes through the drilled hole in the wall plate. For more in depth informatino about running fis. Fish the cable.

Now you are ready for pulling wires. Pull the string from above to fish the wire through. Pull enough cable or wire s to work with and press into the box s opening. From the attic or basement pull steadily on the fish tape while a helper feeds the cable into the wall opening.

Fishing the wires is quite easy when you attach them with a fish tape or a pull wire. 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. 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. Once the string reaches the bottom go down to the lower opening and tie the cable and string together.

Learn how with this video. 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. And use semi rigid wiring fish tape to pull your wiring down to your outlet location. 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.