Help with cabling (and how houses are built!)

DVardysShadow

boxst wrote: »

Okay, thank you. I guess there is a piece of wood between the floors as I can get the cable feeder up to the ceiling.

I should just stop being a wimp and crawl in the loft and look down the place where the cables drop. Fear of spiders ninja stalking you in an enclosed space is irritational ...

Steve

Wimps go in the loft and push cable down. Only strong men try pushing it up.

Your problem is catching it at the bottom, but if you have access to the cavity. you can rig up a loop of steel tape for the cable to drop into.

andrew-b

Might be easier with "shotgun" coax cable (2 coax cables joined together in a similar way to speaker cable) than 2 seperate cables if it's being threaded through a hole in timbers between the floors you can't see/access. I'd have tried the same..pulling up with string attached..then pull the string with new cable attached back down. Either way you need to be going up into the loft at some point!

When i put conduit in for my network cables i used conduit bigger than i needed and left a string actually inside the conduit so i can pull further cables through in future .

1984ReturnsForReal_2

It might be easier just to run it externally...