How To Fish Wire From Attic To First Floor

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How to fish wire from attic to first floor.

Once your hole is drilled you can shove a glow rod through the hole to start fishing wire attach your wire to the eyelet at the end and pull it back through. From the attic or basement pull steadily on the fish tape while a helper feeds the cable into the wall opening. 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. And use semi rigid wiring fish tape to pull your wiring down to your outlet location.

Drop a string from above instead. Pull the string from above to fish the wire through. If you will need to fish wiring through a wall drill a hole through the wood plate in the attic only. If any of this sounds too difficult you may want to hire someone to run the cable for you so that nothing too irreperable happens.

Buy a bit that has a hole on the end of it so you can use the bit itself to pull wires. Be gentle as you fish the cable through the hole since it is important not to tear the sheathing on the cable. Quickly fishing wires from the attic. It may take some finessing as the tip of the fish tape blade passes through the drilled hole in the wall plate.

Joseph k 28 090 views. 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 fish a wire from the wall via the attic to the ceiling duration. If the coax hole is not big enough for the extra cable then you should be able to take a hole saw cup saw on a drill and put a new hole through the floor down to the 1st floor.