Worst can you open the ceiling 5 inches from the wall and work from there.
How to run wires through ceiling but no attic access.
Cut the opening in the ceiling for your new electrical box.
Grab a fixture and remove its junction box cover.
When you drill a hole to run the ip camera wiring like wiring cameras through the ceiling you can hide the security camera cable with the wire guards.
Put the cable into the guard and attach the guard to the wall inside of your home or trail them to the back of your furniture.
So no wires are plain in sight.
Begin pulling the fish tape back through the ceiling hole making sure that you wind it up while reeling it in.
This is another area where having a second pair of hands will be helpful.
You will want to run the cable parallel to the direction of the joists.
Step 8 locate the wires at the sites where you fed them to from the attic and complete your connections first then secure or conceal the rest of the wire.
A 3 inch strip of drywall is enough to run receptacles around a room.
If necessary cut a piece of the drywall where the ceiling and wall meet to run the wire from the wall to the ceiling.
You will need to cut a square of drywall at the very top of your wall in order to give you access to drill through the top plate of your wall.
It s quite a bit easier to work with.
Your helper can guide the wire through the other openings while you concentrate on pulling it through.
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.
1 saw holes inceiling drill holes in joists at an oblique angle with a wide bore drill bit 1 1 2 or so fish wire through.
If there is any.
2 stay in cavity between joists by running wire up into ceiling or down into basement and loop through wall back up to cavity between joists where the next light fixture will be mounted.
Connect the red wire from the switch to the black wire you are running to the ceiling.
Make the opening about 12 x 12 to give you room to get the drill in.
There should be no excess wire or ends left in the attic.
For vertical work you can cut about 6 inches below the wall ceiling joint drill through the top plat and then fish from the opening ion the ceiling.
Patch over wall when done.
The access is 14 because it s constrained by the 16 centers of the ceiling joists.
Turn off the electricity.
