I ll be showing tricks to cut lots of time off fishing wires in walls.
How to run wire through walls vertically.
A decent stud finder is a must have for every wire fishing job but don t throw it back in your pouch after you ve located the studs.
Learn how with this video.
If surface mounted wiring through conduit is unacceptable you can run new wire through the walls and finish it almost invisibly once the job is complete.
Run electrical cable through walls and across ceilings without tearing them apart.
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Running electrical wire through the walls and hooking the wire to end point devices is an easy and safe task for a skilled do it yourselfer.
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If the wall above runs parallel to the attic or basement joist this cable will be attached across the side of a joist.
Roll out the cable through the basement or attic space to the next box location.
1 tap the wall with a hammer across the.
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.
Drill through the center of the stud using a maximum diameter of 60 of the stud s width 40 for load bearing walls.
These instructions assume that there is a closed wall between the service panel and the device that will be wired up.
Follow these guidelines to avoid causing structural damage.
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.
Check the whole wall cavity with a stud finder.