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How to pull wire through attic.
Label both ends of each cable for easy identification before pulling it.
Pull wire through wall conduit.
From the beginning of the wall conduit pull the fish tape slowly and carefully pull the cable until it reach to the wall opening.
Learn how with this video.
Pull enough cable or wire s to work with and press into the box s opening.
Wrap the bare wire through the fish tape eye and twist the end of the wire around itself.
Place the electrical tape over the end of the fish tape eye and wire.
And use semi rigid wiring fish tape to pull your wiring down to your outlet location.
Fishing the wires is quite easy when you attach them with a fish tape or a pull wire.
For more in depth informatino about running fis.
Run electrical cable through walls and across ceilings without tearing them apart.
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.
Now you are ready for pulling wires.
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.
Continue drilling until 6 inches 15 2 cm or so have been pushed into the hole.
Once the string reaches the bottom go down to the lower opening and tie the cable and string together.
Fish the cable.
When working from an attic space.
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.
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.
From the attic or basement pull steadily on the fish tape while a helper feeds the cable into the wall opening.
Pull security camera wires.
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 may take some finessing as the tip of the fish tape blade passes through the drilled hole in the wall plate.
Running wires comes next.
If you will need to fish wiring through a wall drill a hole through the wood plate in the attic only.
Be gentle as you fish the cable through the hole since it is important not to tear the sheathing on the.
Once through do not pull the drill out unchuck the bit and leave in place.
