How To Run Wire Through Walls Without Cutting Drywall

Use your stud finder to check the whole wall cavity for obstacles like blocking and abandoned headers.

How to run wire through walls without cutting drywall.

A drywall saw is a long slender knife with sharp cutting teeth. Pierce the drywall with the tip of a drywall saw on the left or right side of one of the pencil marks on the wall. You don t want to find out the hard way that you should have fished your wire one stud cavity to the left or right. Prepare for that by moving insulation away from the walls through which you need to pass the wires and marking the existing wires you need to remove.

If the wall above runs parallel to the attic or basement joist this cable will be attached across the side of a joist. Running electrical wire through closed walls is a project that few do it yourselfers enjoy. Roll out the cable through the basement or attic space to the next box location. 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.

Cutting into drywall is little more than collateral damage that needs to be minimized. Calculate the proper amount of wire and the most expedient routes for the circuits. If you don t want to remove drywall then you ll be running most of the wires through the attic or the crawl space.