Lifting Carpet To Lay Wires

Try to minimize the amount of carpet you pull up as much as possible.

Lifting carpet to lay wires.

Helps make for an easier pull and the tool is a labor life saver. You can also hide ether. Do not hide electric wires under your carpet. For speaker wires you only need to pull up about 1 inch while category 5 wires need about 2 inches.

Take any doors off the hinges that swing into the room where the carpet will be removed using a screwdriver and hammer. Don t cut the carpet at 2 opposite walls before fitting it to the gripper as fitting it moves the carpet slightly. Lay length is defined as the distance required to complete one revolution of the strand around the diameter of the conductor. If yours is the same then just pull it up lay the wires and re lay it.

Use a utility knife to slice the carpet into smaller more manageable sections. Here s a look at how magnets are used to pull cable under your carpet. It can cause fire. In this video i m showing how i hide hdmi and tv cable.

When a conductor has more than one layer it usually refers to the lay length of the outer layer. Once ypu ve installed your cables you push the carpet back between the gripper and wall with a. You just peel back the carpet away from the wall and trim the underlay so there s a gap between it and the back of the gripper. Lifting up a carpet is a lot easier with the help of an assistant.

Cut carpet to meet the wall. Step 1 lift the carpet to lift the carpet up use your pliers to grip the carpet edge and gently pull it up from the tack strip. Mark each strip with a. Make sure you run the speaker cable on the inner edge of the gripper as the outer edge is for tucking the carpet into make a small cut in the carpet where you want the cable to appear and you may need to chop a small piece of gripper out to get the cable to the wall use a bolster for tucking the carpet back down.

Cut the carpet into strips if you can t lift the entire carpet all at once.