The attic wiring should be protected and secured to ceiling joists or other wood structural supports.
Running electrical wire in attic.
When cutting through drywall from the interior of a room use a utility knife and cut carefully you don t want to drill through a hidden wire or the paper backing of the attic insulation.
When adding or replacing wiring in finished walls most electricians will attempt to make the horizontal portion of the cable run in the unfinished attic or basement crawlspace areas looping the cable down or up through the wall cavity across the floor or ceiling joists then vertically through another stud cavity to the next wall box opening.
Select proper wire or cable.
To run cables vertically go into the attic or basement and drill holes in the wall plates above or below the locations of connection boxes.
Also it may not be as simple as stapling the wiring to the structural members.
Cut a hole for each box with a drywall saw or a saw appropriate for the wall material then feed the wires down from the attic or up from the basement toward each hole using a fish tape or a fish stick and have a helper catch them and pull them through.
Always turn off the breakers in your electrical box before you begin to reduce the chance of an electrical shock should you accidently cut or drill into existing wiring.
We show the easiest way using rigid conduit.
Make sure you use ul rated in wall wiring that meets local building and fire codes including cm cmr or cmp for computer networking and cl2 or cl3 for speakers.
I did a lot of reading about it but am confused about the best way to do it.
5 hollow spaces of walls ceilings and attics where such spaces are insulated by loose rolled or foamed inplace insulating material that envelops the conductors.
I was also under the impression that if wiring is in an attic space that it may need to be derated because it can get very hot up there.
And use semi rigid wiring fish tape to pull your wiring down to your outlet location.
Concealed knob and tube wiring shall not be used in the following.
Whenever i do attic wiring i remove the insulation and staple it to the ceiling joist.
My attic is non accessible so i know for a fact that i must protect the romex with guard strips or bore holes 1 25 from the face of the joists when running perpendicular to the joists and when i run parallel i must staple the romex to the face of the joists.
If this meets code then i will be running attic wiring in this manner from now on.
Run electrical wires underground to reach sheds lights patios and other locations following safe wiring practices.
If you will need to fish wiring through a wall drill a hole through the wood plate in the attic only.
Yes this should be corrected and it would be good to have the wiring and all the circuit connections inspected as well.
Nec 2008 394 12 uses not permitted.
If the wires are within 7 of the attic access hole or along any attic flooring you ll need to protect the wiring from damage with furring strips along each side of the wire run.
If you drill holes in the joists and run wire through those holes you ll be disturbing the insulation.
Turn off the power.
