Fishing wire across a finished ceiling


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Old 01-24-02, 02:33 PM
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Fishing wire across a finished ceiling

I am wiring a spa and need some advice on fishing wires. The wire is 8-3 and enters the basement through the foundation at one end of the house. The room it enters does not have a finished ceiling. The electrical panel is at the opposite end of the basement, in a room with a suspended ceiling (easy access to the joists). The problem is, in between the two rooms is about 20 feet of dry walled ceiling. The joists are running in the right direction, but it is not a straight shot across the basement. My idea is to fish from both ends with pencil wire with a hook on the end of each, trying to hook the ends together and then pulling through from one end. Any ideas?
 
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Old 01-24-02, 04:06 PM
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Why not try running a fish tape stragiht accross the drywalled area.
 
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Old 01-25-02, 04:18 AM
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You may also want to try a fiberglass fishtape. Regular fishtapes uncoil with a 'memory' in that they always want to keep hooking to the direction they were coiled up in. A fiberglass fishtape doesnt have the same problem- when you uncoil it it wants to go straight.
 
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Thanks for the input. The pencil rod idea worked well. It took two hours of fiddling though.
 
 

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