What To Do If You Drill Through An Electrical Wire. I'm not an electrician, but i've done a lot of rework. If you are truly meaning ceiling or floor joists these are spanning lumber forbidding you from drilling in the middle 1/3 of that span and a minimum of 1 1/4 from the. If you're working in a crawlspace, you can use a flex bit drill to drill this hole from several feet away.
Return to the attic or basement, and drill through the wall plate where you want to guide the wire through.
I believe the poster of this question wrote an answer with further details. Wire from the basement to a first floor outlet. Tell the contractor you need a drilling pattern from the engineer to proceed or a redesign of some sort just to get permission and get it in writting. Before you need to run wires for your security cameras, you need to bury the pvc conduit at least 18 inches, while 6 inches for metal conduit according to the national electric code (nec. An option may be (when the power is definitely off) is to make the whole bigger, and try and determine if there is any slack in the wire and if it can actually be pulled through the hole. All you have to do is quickly measure the diameter of the cable, and then make sure the drill bit that you pick, is slightly bigger to allow you to drill the hole. You hit a guard plate that protects electrical wiring. Use a drill bit that will accommodate the size of the schedule 40 pvc conduit you choose to use as well as one that will drill through the material of your wall.
