Pulling Cat6 Cable Through Conduit

[Scabutz]

I have just had mega faster fibre installed. The fitters could only run the fibre to the front of the house. The old fibre installed by BT was run the the back of the house where the lounge and my office is.

My house has a metal panel at the front and behind it there is two lots of conduit, I believe it was to run cable TV years ago. Anyway BT got their cable through this.

My question is how? I want to run some Cat6e cable back there and thought I could do the same. I assume if I try and push it through it will get snagged. Could I disconnect the BT fibre and tape my cable to that and gently pull it back out?

[Scabutz]

The conduit is quite large, must be 2 inches diameter. Tt only has the BT fibre cable and some old co-ax cable.

Assuming its straight, the run must be 5-6m I guess

[Scabutz]

Mr Pointy said:

Scabutz said:

The conduit is quite large, must be 2 inches diameter. Tt only has the BT fibre cable and some old co-ax cable.

Assuming its straight, the run must be 5-6m I guess

Dead easy then. A rod set would do it but you could probably use the coax as a pull cord. Securely tape some thin 4mm nylon rope to it & gently pull it through. Don't forget if you want to leave the nylon in as a pull wire you need twice the length of the conduit.

Cool, Amazon have a got a 10m rod set for 15 notes. Will try that, thanks.

[Scabutz]

Mr Pointy said:

Scabutz said:

Cool, Amazon have a got a 10m rod set for 15 notes. Will try that, thanks.

Put a wrap of insulating tape or similar round each joint & always twist the rod so as to tighten the joints, not undo them. There's plenty of people have left half their set down a hole. It's worse with a set of drain rods though.

I learnt that the hard way when sweeping my chimney once. Luckily I have long arms and managed to reach it

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dhutch said:

Mattt said:

Use the old coax rather than fibre.

This. I wouldnt disconnect the new FTTP cable or use it as a draw wire!

To be clear I was talking about the old FTTP cable from the soon to be disconnected service. But I am going to use the rods anyway.

[Scabutz]

Thanks all. I got it done today. Bit of a fiddle. When I said the conduit was a couple of inches, that is the one bringing the cable TV and phone line from the street. The one in the house was a lot smaller and had the fibre and telephone line in. I tried to get the rods down but they just would go. So I pulled one of the cables out then taped the Cat6 to the other one and slowly pulled it through.

Took a bit of push and pull and wiggling but got it done in the end.

Tomorrows job is to run the cable from the lounge to my office up stairs.