Drilling Up Into A Wall To Run Wires

In this step by step instruction, I explain the process of drilling up into a wall space. This is an essential skill for an electrician to know in order to be able to cleanly and professionally prepare for fishing wires up a wall using only a common drill and drill bit.

[Fulmes]

Did this better than anybody every taught me. Thanks brother!

[jeffb]

Nice video as an electrician with over 30 years experience and doing many renovation jobs like you are doing this video shows the challenges of drilling holes for fishing wires without damaging walls or floors.

[CaseyChambliss]

Thanks for creating this. I've got plans this weekend to do this with coax cable.

[devinhedge]

Best video I’ve seen on this topic. Thank you!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[jeffh]

Excellent video and very informative. That is precisely what I was looking for. Thank you Gary!!! Cheers.

[wesperez]

Excellent! Thanks. It would have been nice to see the finished job, and to show us the upstairs first, when you were explaining where you trying to come up at

[n.santra]

Thanks for the video. I think best way to find the wallplate is do a pilot hole just inside the wall and put a wire through.

[patmcbride]

I would have expected a fire block before 5ft, but it looks like an older home.

[RefinerSimilitude]

I need to drill for a doorbell wire in a house built in 1996 where the doorbell was part of the intercom system that was removed with no power left for a traditional doorbell. I'll be putting in a Simplisafe Doorbell Cam Pro, powered by the OhmKat system which will plug into an existing outlet in the crawlspace and transmit the doorbell chime to receivers around the house. This way, I don't have to mess with a transformer or wiring a separate chime. From the crawlspace it looks like I'll have to drill at an angle through the sill plate to fish wire in the exterior wall on the porch. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[jackspencer]

3:57 You're saying there are usually two 2x4s (not one) at the base of a wall. I'm not saying you're wrong, but are you sure this is usually the case? When I google framing an exterior wall, I can find this stated nowhere. Is this perhaps the case with older construction, but not newer construction?

[illestofdemall]

Do you ever use fiberglass fish rods? I find them to be quite handy. Nice video.

[chrischepa]

What size drill bit did you use? 3/4"?

[bgd]

How would I be able to do this in a interior wall if I already have a tsat hole in my dry wall

[somebody]

What about Vapor barrier? Doesn’t this retrofit box break the Vapor barrier?

[marsailmar]

Try doing this in 2 feet of sub floor space in the dirt and in the dark. Not fun.

[wesperez]

Excellent! Thanks. It would have been nice to see the finished job, and to show us the upstairs first, when you were explaining where you trying to come up at