How To Fish Wire From Attic To Basement

Fish the cable.

How to fish wire from attic to basement. 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. Have someone at the other end reach through the hole in the drywall grab the fish tape and pull it through with about a foot sticking out of the hole. I recently tried that.

Drop a string from above instead. Then attach your wire to the fish tape and pull it back through. Once the string reaches the bottom go down to the lower opening and tie the cable and string together. From the attic or basement pull steadily on the fish tape while a helper feeds the cable into the wall opening.

From the basement or attic push the wire fish tape through the hole you have drilled. If there s enough clearence on the sides of the chimney you might be able to fish a cable up that way. Learn how with this video. Running wire from attic to basement.

For more in depth informatino about running fis. If you want to bring the wire up to the attic tie something to a string and lower it through the hole from above. Quickly fishing wires from the attic.