How Do You Fish Wires Through A Conduit Or Pipe?
• Unwind several feet of the light string and feed a little bit of it into one end of the pipe. • Start up the vacuum cleaner and attach it to the other end of the pipe. Try to seal the connection the best you can to make the most efficient use of the vacuum. The vacuum should pull the string through the pipe. • Watch the end where the string is feeding into the pipe to make sure it doesn’t get snagged and stop. It is important to be aware of how much string has been pulled in, so you know when to expect the string’s exit on the other end. • Watch the end where the vacuum is for the appearance of the string. If you don’t, a lot of string can be sucked into the bowels of the vacuum cleaner. • Once you have pulled the light string through the pipe, attach a heavier string / rope to the end, and pull this through manually. • Once the heavier string / rope has been pulled through the pipe, attach your final wire or cable, and pull this through manually. If needing to pull more than one to
