|  | 9.4 | Structured Cable Run Installation
| 9.4.8 | Fishing cable from above a wall
When you pull cable up through a wall - sometimes called fishing cable - you ordinarily work from an attic or dropped ceiling space. To fish cable through a wall: Locate the top plate of the wall, and drill a 19 mm hole through it. Slowly feed fish tape through the hole you drilled, down into the wall. Position another person (helper) next to the wall opening, below you. Tell your helper to signal you, and to grab the hooked end of the fish tape when it reaches the wall opening. Your helper should strip back about 25 mm of the jacket from CAT 5 UTP cable, and bend the wires around the hook of the fish tape, and use electrical tape to finish securing the cable. You can, then, pull the cable up through the wall to the wall plate. Be sure to leave enough excess cable at the jack end to reach the floor, and extend another 60-90 cm.
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