Pull Cable Through Conduit

After feeding the wire off the reel into the conduit and pulled at the other end.

Pull cable through conduit.

From the beginning of the wall conduit pull the fish tape slowly and carefully pull the cable until it reach to the wall opening. Step 6 pull the wire through the conduit. Also note that nm cable is not rated for outdoor or wet applications. It is never permissible to run nm cable outdoors or in.

Method 3 pull the pull wire through the conduit. Connect the new wires plus two wires. If there is already another wire or cable inside the conduit then it is often simpler to disconnect it and use it as the pull string. The first extra wire is to replace the wire being used as a pull string and the second is to be left in the conduit as a pull string for possible later use.

This method works best for shorter pieces of conduit. Fishing weight step 1 tie a thin heavy fishing weight onto the end of the wires with string or fishing line. Also cable is difficult to pull through conduit due to the cable s size and the sheathing so running cable in conduit typically is limited to very short runs that do not require standard wire pulling techniques. Pull the rod back through the conduit bringing along the wires.

Allow the fishing weight to have a 2 to 3 inch lead in front of the wires. Feed the end of the wire or cable through the loop you made in the pull wire. Pull wire through wall conduit. Make a loop in the feed cable the same size as the one in the pull wire.

From a attic a basement or a crawl space an electrical tape is used to fix one end of the cable on a hook on a fish belt. The easiest way to pull the cable is to use an electrical or mechanical pulling tool to assist the pull into the conduit. Secure the end with tape as you did with the pull wire. The cable should go into the conduit smoothly with an easy effort.