In this article, I will show you a trick, how you can quickly and easily pull cables and wires when installing electrical wiring with conduits.

If you are wondering why we should pull cables and wires, and not use PVV-MB1 - flat twin cable and finish quickly, now I will tell you about some of the advantages of electrical installation with conduits (corrugated pipes; sleeves):

  • Wires can always be easily replaced without having to break walls, ceilings or floors.
  • The electrical installation can be modified by moving the locations of switches and sockets to the existing consoles.
  • Installation with conduits is not much more expensive than without.
  • For low-current installations for television, telephone, network cable or internet, it is essential that the cable can be easily changed, because different cable operators use different cables and if after 2 years you decide to change your operator, you will either have to demolish if you do not have sleeves or the cable will have to be visible, which is not aesthetically pleasing.

As you know, the standard method for pulling cables is with a tool called a cable pulling snake. The principle of working with it is relatively simple and easy.

The snake is inserted into one end of the corrugated pipe and pushed until it comes out the other end of the corrugated pipe. Then the wires are tied and pulled.

The disadvantage of this method is that snaking is very slow and if the route of the corrugated pipe has many bends, this makes it very difficult to pass the snake.

The snaking method I developed 7-8 years ago is even simpler and easier. The wires are pulled with a fishing line.

Some might wonder how the fishing line is passed through the sleeves? Passing the fishing line takes seconds, and I'll share how now.

At one end of the fishing line, use electrical tape to attach a piece of the thinnest plastic bag. You need to trim the plastic precisely according to the size of the sleeves.

At one end of the sleeve, place the fishing line with the plastic guide.

At the other end of the corrugated pipe, go with a vacuum cleaner, at the end of which you have made a nozzle that seals well.

After the vacuum cleaner seals the sleeve well, it's a matter of seconds for the fishing line, pulled by the plastic, to be sucked in by the vacuum cleaner.

Once this is done, the wires are tied to the fishing line and pulled in the standard way.

We can easily tell when the plastic guide has entered the vacuum cleaner by the change in the sound emitted by the sleeve from the airflow passing through it.

You will need:

  1. Fishing line. For example, a 1.4mm thick fishing line can hold up to 68 kg. But such a thick one is not necessary.
  2. Vacuum cleaner - even a household one
  3. Electrical tape
  4. A small piece of plastic.

There are nuances to the method, as with any other activity, but with a few tries, everyone will quickly figure them out and decide what is most convenient for them.

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