Fish Speaker Wire Through Insulated Walls

It s really tempting to fish low voltage wires like coax and cat 5e through existing holes occupied by electrical cables but don t do it.

Fish speaker wire through insulated walls.

Even though cables are insulated the high voltage current can interfere with the signal in the low voltage wires. How to fish wires through walls. Easy way to run cable wires in wall through studs horizontally using flex drill bit rest drill bit on bottom of access hole and drill into the center of the. Be sure to leave enough slack on both ends to make connections.

For more in depth informatino about running fis. If your surround speaker is wall mountable then see our note below drill a hole in the wall so that you can duck the speaker cable in there and run it up the wall cavity. It also gets a little more difficult to reel back in. This could result in bad tv reception or unreliable phone and internet service.

It worked for the job i needed it though and seems like it ll be able to reel out again should i need it for the future. Fishing wires through a wall can be tedious but in most cases you only need a couple of basic tools. Feed cables through the holes. 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 you re working.

5 attach the wiring in the 3 by 5 inch hole to the end of the fish tape. You will likely have to use a fish tape to pull the speaker cable up and through the bottom hole and out the surround speaker hole. Used it to fish 15ft of wire through the wall ceiling. Upgrade fish tape wire puller through wall wire threader fish plus fish cable fastener with steel rope 40ft 12m 4 3 out of 5 stars 503.

Learn how with this video. In stock on september 15 2020. It can get difficult to maneuver the more you use. If you re fishing a small cable like a security cable you can attach the cable to the end of the rod by threading one of the wires in the cable through the hole in the bull nose.

99 0 63 oz free shipping on your first order shipped by amazon. If you need to fish a larger cable or bundle or if your buddy is going to feed the cable to you from above or below thread a pull cord through the bull nose. Support cables at 4 1 2 inch intervals with appropriate staples or clamps.