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Just pulled 2,000 feet of 12/2 through a finished ceiling and didn't curse once
Was doing a rewire in an old craftsman in Portland, needed to get from the new panel in the basement up to the attic across the whole house. The path was a nightmare of fire blocks and old plaster lathe. My apprentice was ready to start cutting access holes everywhere. I remembered this trick an old timer showed me: use a shop vac on blow, not suck, at the starting hole with a plastic bag over the end of the fish tape. It inflates the bag and pushes the tape through insulation and around minor obstructions like a balloon. We got the first pull in 15 minutes. Ended up running the whole homerun bundle without opening a single wall. Saved probably a full day of patching and painting. What's your go-to method for impossible pulls in finished spaces?
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nina_harris396mo ago
Ever try using a glow rod with a fiberglass tip? That stuff bends around corners like nothing else. Saved my butt in a few tight spots with plaster.
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evan2957mo ago
That shop vac trick is a perfect example of how the old simple fixes are often the best ones.
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the_pat7mo ago
Gotta say, that shop vac trick sounds like a total myth. Pushing a bag through 2000 feet of old house? No way it gets past real fire blocks without getting stuck. Seems like one of those stories that gets better every time it's told.
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