How To Run An Ethernet Cable Through The Floor

When you ve run all the wires up to the attic then bring each one to the hole that it has to feed down through.

How to run an ethernet cable through the floor.

This may involve fishing it through another wall cavity or out a small hole drilled in the floor. Measure the length of all baseboards and walls that the cable will pass through. Use the electric tape to fasten the e thernet wire to your coat hanger and pull it through the wall. After drilling down from the floor above i cut a small hole in the ceiling to find the hole inside the wall from the floor above.

Run wire through hole. The cable would be running from one device like a tv set to a different device. Run the cable back to your primary ethernet port drilling holes as needed to pass it through the floor or through walls and stapling it to wall or floor joists as necessary with wire staples. If you have another floor to go you can follow the same steps in the same order.

Measure the extent between the appliances or gadget that will make use of the cable. Run the wire or cable to its destination. Hurry to the next floor now and drill a hole in the bottom wall. For single floor homes with a basement the basement may be the best path.

Then to the opposite action have one person feed the cables down through the hole to the destination while another person pulls the cable out from the wall. Pull the e thernet cable to its destination and you re set. My cable tv is distributed through the attic so it seemed like a good solution to run my home network through there as well. The ethernet cables are run between floors and also along the baseboards and walls.