How To Fish Cable Through 2 Floors

Run electrical cable through walls and across ceilings without tearing them apart.

How to fish cable through 2 floors.

You will see that most people prefer wired connection when they are coding or gaming. Feeding the wires up and down is usually a 2 person job. If you live in a two storey building or more dragging the ethernet cable all the way from ground floor to the second may work but it is tacky and displeasing to the eye. 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.

Carefully extend the fish tape from one opening to the other. Untape the new cable and pull through an additional complete length i e the same length as you had to pull the first time. From the attic or basement pull steadily on the fish tape while a helper feeds the cable into the wall opening. Tape the middle of the new cable which is a location that will become the starting point to the end of the old cable.

A cross joist was a roadblock to fishing the cable through the floor. 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. Programmers gamers and regular web users need their internet connection to be fast and wi fi does not offer that privilege. One person pushes the wire through the origin point and the other pulls through the hole at the destination point.

Tape the end of the fish tape tightly onto the cable with electrical tape. Be gentle as you fish the cable through the hole since it is important not to tear the sheathing on the. If you re working from the attic you can drop a weighted string down wall cavity then attach the wire to the string and pull it through. Learn how with this video.

Use your stud finder to check the whole wall cavity for obstacles like blocking and abandoned headers. Make sure the tape is smooth so the cable can slide through the opening. Attach the wire or cable to a fish tape or coat hanger using electrical tape and feed it into the hole until it reaches the opening at the other end. Fish the cable.

Then retract the fish tape to pull the cable through. Feed the wire through the hole above the distribution box while someone else pulls the from attic. The occupants of a 150 year old building wanted category 5 cable run from a patch panel on the second floor of the building to an outer wall on the third floor. Pull the new cable back down.

Run the wire or cable to its destination. Feed your cables up the wall into the attic space. Use the old cable to pull the new cable through to the destination. It may take some finessing as the tip of the fish tape blade passes through the drilled hole in the wall plate.