Carefully extend the fish tape from one opening to the other. Pull the cable through with a fish tape.
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How to fish hdmi cable through wall. You have been fishing in the wall for 45 minutes where you need to drop the cable and your patience is running thin. Hdmi cables honestly dont like bending too much around the ends so attach to the cable use masking tape on the head of the cable so you dont get dust in it and manually feed the hdmi and the draw wire into the hole. Family handyman 234731 views. It probably wont so do some fine tuning and shave away areas that need it. The wall is heavily insulated and the fish tape has caught several times. Keep feeding the hdmi as you pull on the exit line and bring it out.
Fit the wall gang boxes in the holes. How to hide tv cables in the wall low voltage hdmi cat5 speaker wires duration. The rod will follow the corner and pass through the hole the bit made. 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. Push the cables a little into the the wall through the box so there is slack cable in the wall cavity. That way you should avoid any timbers in your walls.
You dont need to tighten them down yet. Push the fish stick up through the tube and out of the top low voltage box. Tape the end of the fish tape tightly onto the cable with electrical tape. Push the rod to the same corner you used with the drill bit. Then you would loosen the screws that tighten the wings of the box and and gently pull the box out of the wall you may have to push in on the box as you turn the screw to get the wing to free up from the back of the wall. 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. Then retract the fish tape to pull the cable through. Use existing cable as a pull you need to add one data cable to an existing work area location. 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. Your buddy attaches the cable to the pull cord and you pull it back down with the cable. Make sure the tape is smooth so the cable can slide through the opening.
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