Hiding Wires Under Siding

At this install the customer moved from another home and was renting a bsmt suite at the new house.

Hiding wires under siding. Hiding cables are an easy if you follow a couple rules of thumb follow building lines. Pull up gently on the lower lip of the vinyl siding where you wish to hide the cable. Use some clothes pins to hold it in place until the silicone dries. Extend the fish tape.

The only real solution to hide electrical wires on the outside of a wall is to incorporate some type of cable management system in the form of a cable or a wire raceway. You can paint the raceway to match the wall or trim. Basic type of job all cable runs are on one side. Here s how to add outlets safely with surface wiring.

My cable tv the old telephone wire and some of the hardwired network cat5 is permanently in there per association rules. How to hide cables in vinyl siding step 1. I have tucked cat5 under the j channel at the bottom of my siding back when i thought i needed to hide the wires. The vinyl should flex.

If you can t simply hide low voltage wire under rugs and behind furniture try using plastic raceways along the trim. I still tuck a heavy duty 120 volt extension cord under the corner molding going up to the second floor. Match colour as best as possible and use existing channels. You could even use some duct seal or silicone to hold it in place.

Insert the hooked tip of the fish tape into the gap and push the tip a few inches behind the siding before. There are lots of clips that use two sided tape in the electrical section of the hardware big box store. That in conjunction with opening up some sheathing on the outside to get wires routed on the correct side of the wall may clean things up a bit. As much as i don t care for it most retrofit a c installs i ve seen use a downspout to conceal the lineset and wires.