How a pro runs wire without access

[mat200]

looks good .. should help a few people out ..

How a pro runs wire without access

In this video, a professional cable installer shows you how to run and hide wiring in the hardest places. We show you the tools that only the pros know about and let you know where to get them. This is how to run wires through walls and ceilings of an RV or finished home.

 

[The Automation Guy]

This kind of information is great. It's amazing what you can do with the right tools and knowledge.

 

[CanCuba]

Man, my father and I fished and pulled wires using nuts tied on string and sections of coat-hangers. El Cheapo would never have spent money on a tool that would have saved him, and I, frustration and time!

 

[Jim I.]

Man, my father and I fished and pulled wires using nuts tied on string and sections of coat-hangers. El Cheapo would never have spent money on a tool that would have saved him, and I, frustration and time!

That's how my dad showed me as well. Luckily we were dealing with interior walls with no fire blocks.

 

[CanCuba]

That's how my dad showed me as well. Luckily we were dealing with interior walls with no fire blocks.

Our experience was similar. But there was still plaster and lathe in some sections which posed its own set of challenges due to the hook on the clothes hanger frequently getting snagged on the lathe.

 

[Mike A.]

I couldn't watch it all the way through. I start feeling the frustration and want to take a hammer and break drywall.

 

[dmcIPCAM]

Here's how NOT a pro does things!

I've been telling my wife for two years: "I'm gonna fix that this weekend" But it has grown on my, you know, almost
like a piece of art hanging on the wall.

 

[redpoint5]

I've got some "extra" holes from running various things. My most embarrassing one was thinking I was drilling into the space between the downstairs ceiling, and the upstairs floor. I knew something was wrong when I saw light coming through the hole. I hadn't considered there was a stairwell between the wall I was drilling into, and the space I wanted to access.

So, I've got a 1/2" hole in the wall of the stairs.

I'll have to watch the video as I always seem to need to run something; CAT6, speaker wires, HDMI and power to a projector....

I ran a lot of stuff by tying a hard drive magnet to a string, and then using another hard drive magnet to pull the string across the ceiling to the other side.