With careful planning a few special tools and the right techniques it can be easier than you may think.
Routing cable from basement to 2nd floor in ryan home.
I missed the basement part so as there is only 1 ceiling to deal with between the first floor and the 2nd find which way the ceiling joists run and run through those cavities.
Posted by augustwest at 12 23 pm on january 3 2011.
Routing electrical cable with access if you are fortunate enough to have access from a basement crawlspace or attic plan to run the cable along joists or beams or through holes drilled in them.
I drilled a hole as close to the wall as i could from one to the other.
In this way you will.
Or identify a closet on the main floor and run the wire in that space from basement to main floor and another wire or more up to upper floor.
I should be able to get er done now with.
Yes i will be wiring from a 1st floor room to a 2nd floor room right above it.
But it s important to think about which kind of home surfaces.
Well now that the hard facts have hit that i can t wire anything inside my relatively new 2 story home from basement to second floor i was glad to see someone suggesting running pvc up the.
Need a new phone jack in your bedroom or installing speakers for your home theater system.
Your access holes will be in the ceiling not at the top of the wall lsiunsuex jun 12 13 at 15 49.
While you could simply string the wires along the floor it s best to snake the wires inside walls or under floors.
Great community here in the diy sub.
I have closets that are on top of each other from floor to floor.
Not always as easy to do than to say i know electricians alarm installation cable.
I really appreciate the input man.
Very friendly and willing to help.
It would be like old construction pot lights.
When someone is running cable through a room they may decide to use metal or plastic brackets to keep the cable in a corner or a recess and contribute to neatness.
Here i have mentioned the needed tools for running network cables from basement to second floor before process steps after process steps and other useful info.
Here are some tips on what to do if you have a multilevel home network on your hands.
If you have one computer in the basement and another on the second floor you need sufficient cable.