How To Run Wire Through Walls And Ceilings

Return to the attic or basement and drill through the wall plate where you want to guide the wire through.

How to run wire through walls and ceilings.

You may encounter nails so choose an auger drill bit which won t get damaged by metal. Finally wrap the whole area with electrical tape. Turn off the electricity. Feed the wire through the hole above the distribution box while someone else pulls the from attic.

Then wrap the remaining ground wire through the rod s eyelet and wrap it back around the wire s sheathing several times. When adding or replacing wiring in finished walls most electricians will attempt to make the horizontal portion of the cable run in the unfinished attic or basement crawlspace areas looping the cable down or up through the wall cavity across the floor or ceiling joists then vertically through another stud cavity to the next wall box opening. If you re working in a crawlspace you can use a flex bit drill to drill this hole from several feet away. When you hook cable to the eyelet of a glow rod strip the plastic sheathing back about 6 in then cut off the hot and neutral wires.

Feed your cables up the wall into the attic space. One person pushes the wire through the origin point and the other pulls through the hole at the destination point. Feeding the wires up and down is usually a 2 person job. To connect a ceiling light fixture to a light switch in your house snake the wire through the ceiling and walls via access holes a process known as fishing the wire.