How To Fish Wire From Attic To Basement

Learn how with this video.

How to fish wire from attic to basement.

If you want to bring the wire up to the attic tie something to a string and lower it through the hole from above. Then attach your wire to the fish tape and pull it back through. Be gentle as you fish the cable through the hole since it is important not to tear the sheathing on the cable. Fish the cable.

If there s enough clearence on the sides of the chimney you might be able to fish a cable up that way. Drop a string from above instead. I recently tried that. Quickly fishing wires from the attic.

From the attic or basement pull steadily on the fish tape while a helper feeds the cable into the wall opening. Once the string reaches the bottom go down to the lower opening and tie the cable and string together. Run electrical cable through walls and across ceilings without tearing them apart. It may take some finessing as the tip of the fish tape blade passes through the drilled hole in the wall plate.

Pull the string from above to fish the wire through. From the basement or attic push the wire fish tape through the hole you have drilled. This video will show you tips how to fish wire down an existing wall from an attic space down to a crawl space.