Pro tip: a piece of fish tape and a shop vac can pull wire through a tricky 90.

Had a 40 foot run of 12/2 to pull through a finished basement ceiling in an old house in Springfield. The bend was too tight for a normal pull. Tied a small plastic bag to the end of my fish tape, taped it up, and sucked it through with the vacuum. Worked on the first try. Anyone else have a good trick for tight bends in finished spaces?

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elliot95026d ago

My uncle swears by that trick for old Chicago bungalows.

jessica_palmer8226d ago

Tried that trick once and it saved my whole weekend.

hayes.joel26d ago

Saved your whole weekend, @jessica_palmer82? What exactly went wrong that a single trick fixed everything? Seems like maybe the bar for a "disaster" is set pretty low these days.