Use a fish tape or a fish stick a rigid pole for pulling wires when you need to pass them through the wall plates to the floor above or below the one on which youre working. After doing this instructable i wanted to make it a completely clean look by eliminating the hdmi cable and the power cablethe plan was to install a new power outlet behind the tv and install 2 not sure what theyre officially called media boxes which let me pass the hdmi cable or any other component cables through the wall.
Fishing Electrical Wire Through Walls The Family Handyman
How to feed hdmi cable through wall. Push the fish stick up through the tube and out of the top low voltage box. Extend the fish stick so that it protrudes out of both the top and bottom holes and you can tape it to the wall temporarily. You dont need to tighten them down yet. Be sure to leave enough slack on both ends to make connections. If it isnt tape a new in wall rated hdmi to it pull through. Support cables at 4 12 inch intervals with appropriate staples or clamps.
Family handyman 234731 views. First make sure it isnt stapled. How to fish wire and cable through a finshed wall duration. It probably wont so do some fine tuning and shave away areas that need it. If you are feeding the cable up or down into the wall cavity from an attic or crawl space attach the cable to a fiberglass rod and get the rod into a cornerpreferably a corner on the same side as the opening to which youre trying to fish. Make sure the hdmi cables arent in gang boxes.
Feed cables through the holes. How to hide tv cables in the wall low voltage hdmi cat5 speaker wires duration. Feed the wire fishsnake wire through the top hole down through the wall and fish it out through the bottom hole. Carefully push the top low voltage box into the wall cavity just enough that you can easily access the tube from the bottom hole. Fit the wall gang boxes in the holes. If it is youre fd will need to rip walls open.
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