replacing a cable run in home


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Old 12-14-01, 02:05 PM
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replacing a cable run in home

To any experienced residential electrical expert:

How do you replace a cable run (jumper) in the home (enclosed walls) that runs from downstairs bathroom receptacle to upstairs bathroom receptacle??? Please reply. Thanks!
 
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Old 12-14-01, 06:37 PM
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You have really lacked on enough info for someone to really help.
How is the house designed ?
Is there any chase to follow ?
Are they both designed to where one is on top of the other ?
Maby examining these things will answer your own question....

Hope this helped.
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Old 12-15-01, 02:47 PM
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You might try the following for some suggestive reading;

Send a man into the crawl or basement, have a person in the living area along the wall about 8" away from the wall where the downstairs bath receptacle is located on either side of that wall and only if that room has carpeting, drive a long finish nail through the floor as the guy or gal in the crawl hears the pounding. They should see the nail come through the subfloor. Then tell the exactly how far the nail is from the surface of the wall [not the baseboard but the surface of the wall. Have the person in the crawl or basement drill a hole a little at a time until the have drilled into the wall under the lower bathroom receptacle. Fish a 12/2wGrnd Romex cable from that lower bathroom receptacle through the walls bottom plate into the crawl. Then pull the wire across the basement or crawl space to a spot under a storage closet that is located on the first floor that also has a closet on the second floor stacked above the lower closet. Use the back corner of that closet as a chase to run your wire into the attic. Then take a wide finish style board to nail at an angle making a covering for that corner of the closet chase to make a finished product that will protect that cable from physical damage of normal living.

Once you get to the attic area then pull the cable to the area where you upper bathroom receptacle is located and again drill a hole through the top plate above that bathroom receptacle. You should be able to see the top plate of the wall if you sweep the insulation away in that area showing where the wall is if this is an inside wall. Drill into the wall and fish the cable down through the wall to the upper bathroom receptacle.

If you are fishing in an outside wall you will have much more trouble fishing the cable down or up the wall if that wall is insulated. Most older homes are not insulated in this area.

If you are fishing a cable down from an attic in an older home on an outside wall and if that home is insulated then you may be able to find a vent in your soffitt outside that you can run you hand through and route you wire from the attice into the soffet area and then into the wall to the receptacle found on the outside wall.

Inside walls are much easier to hit into and fish in.

Hope this helps

Wg
 
 

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