Running Wire From One Floor To Another

The tv on the main floor and office also have hardwired connections more than one to the tv room to cover the other electronics in the entertainment system.

Running wire from one floor to another. All you need to do now is to install the box into the wall and feed the wire to it. My plan is to remove baseboards then cut away some drywall directly below the outlet behind where the baseboard was then fish the wire up into the box through this hole in the drywall. The presumption is that the cable run will be looped from one box location down or up into a basement crawlspace or an attic then across floor joists before entering the stud cavity where the. In the example described here we running a simple loop of wire from one new wall box location to another such as you might do when extending a circuit.

I have a roll of 12g green wire. The staple gun should be loaded with wire staples designed for holding the size and type of wire you are running. Most of the hard work is done. Bring all of the wire up into the attic.

If you have another floor to go you can follow the same steps in the same order. Dropping a cable down from the attic to the next floor is pretty straight forward and covered in that instructables post. I have some ungrounded plugs. Pull the e thernet cable to its destination and you re set.

While one person holds the flashlight the other person should use a staple gun to run the wire along the rafters from one entry hole to the other. I would like to run a ground wire from one outlet to another.