Wires Under Laminate Floor

Below holstein offers 3 décor friendly tricks of the trade for hiding cables in plain sight on hardwood tile or even laminate floors.

Wires under laminate floor.

Depending on your wiring layout you might also have to drill. Mark a line with a chalk line along the path of the wire. How to hide cables in a laminate floor step 1. Here i have mentioned the needed tools for running network cables from basement to second floor before process steps after process steps and other useful info.

When i put my floor in last year i ran wires in the walls down to floor level then at about 2 above the subfloor to clear the bottom plate in the wall framing i drilled a hole through the plasterboard to bring the wire out then carved a notch in the plasterboard to subfloor level. These tough cord covers may be made of pvc but all that meets the eye is floor. Set the circular saw blade to a depth of 1 2 inch. Plunge the saw into the line as close to the wall as possible and cut along the line until you are as close to.

Chordsavers floor cord covers. Laminate flooring requires a 1 4 gap around all walls so there s a ready made slot hide wires in. Plunge the saw into the line as close to the wall as possible and cut along the line until you are as close to the other. Running electrical wires between the subfloor and the surface layer of flooring is not safe but you can run them under the subfloor itself.

Run wires through floor joists. Typically the simplest way to run a new wire is to cut out a section of drywall to expose the floor plate for drilling an access hole.