Running Wire Through Walls Attic

Cut the holes that the wire will pass through to enter and exit the attic.

Running wire through walls attic.

Now that you have run wires from your outlet to the basement or the attic you may need to run the wire from the attic to the basement. If you will need to fish wiring through a wall drill a hole through the wood plate in the attic only. Or thinner walls by running it through 1 2 in. If you run a cat 5 6 ethernet cable of your security camera you can just drill a hole to run the ethernet cable from the camera to your home router or nvr.

Wiring new construction before the drywall goes in is a piece of cake compared to fishing them through existing walls and floors. Anchor a 4 x 4 x 1 1 2 in. Return to the attic or basement and drill through the wall plate where you want to guide the wire through. If you re working in a crawlspace you can use a flex bit drill to drill this hole from several feet away.

Depending on what the wiring is for this may be go through the drywall to the ceiling for instance for new lighting or be farther down on a wall. If drilling up through the ceiling expect to pass through a thin coat of plaster and 5 8 of sheet rock and 1 2 inch 1 3 cm of strapping to which the sheet rock is secured. Protect the cable in 1 1 2 in. Ideally your house included a future tube which is a pvc pipe running from the basement to the attic specifically for this purpose.

Protect the wall with a thin piece of cardboard etc. 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. And use semi rigid. If the wall above runs parallel to the attic or basement joist this cable will be attached across the side of a joist.

And while loosely guiding the bit with one hand apply even pressure with the other holding the drill while running it. Drilling is undoubtedly one of the best and easiest ways to run security camera wires through walls soffit vinyl siding etc. Metal junction box and attach a length of conduit to it with a conduit connector you ll need two conduits for two cables. Roll out the cable through the basement or attic space to the next box location.

You may encounter nails so choose an auger drill bit which won t get damaged by metal.