How To Drop Wires Through Wall From Attic
Use a piece of string that you can add a small weight to such as a steel nut or whatever you can find.
How to drop wires through wall from attic. Strip the end of the sheathing attach the wires to the fish tape and tape them in place. This may involve fishing it through another wall cavity or out a small hole drilled in the floor. Run the wire or cable to its destination. Drop the string and catch it in the wall cutout and use that to pull the cable through.
Drill destination hole in floor. If the wall above runs parallel to the attic or basement joist this cable will be attached across the side of a joist. Cut the cable leaving plenty of slack and feed the cut end into the wall cavity and out through the wall hole as you did with the first box. Depending on what the wiring is for this may be go through the drywall to the ceiling for instance for new lighting or be farther down on a wall.
If you re working from the attic you can drop a weighted string down wall cavity then attach the wire to the string and pull it through. Then pull the cable through the wall plate and out the next wall box opening.