Drill Through Floor To Crawl Space

It would give me access to fresh air for the skimmer and would allow me to plan for autotop off and continuous water change with large nsw containers and draining waste water into.

Drill through floor to crawl space. Once 2 inches 5 1 cm have been penetrated it should be much easier to drill. For rooms that have hardwood or tile i ve removed baseboards and drilled with a thin drill bit diagonally into the wall space going down. Drill a small pilot hole and see how thick it is. Then poke a wire through so i can see it from the crawl space then drill a hole up into the wall space for cabling.

The floor will only be 3 4 thick at most. When cutting through your floor for access locate the opening in a closet where it can t be seen or in a corner of a room where a rug will cover it. Any 6 inch drill bit should work. Is cut the hole in the drywall for the remodel box and use a long flexible drill bit to drill down to the crawl space.

Floor should be less than 2 to 2 1 2 inches thick. Also don t unnecessarily push the drill bit all of the way through the floor. I d then use a small gauge metal wire like a coat hanger and run that down through the hole crawl under the house tape the cat5 6 to the wire and come back up and pull it through. It should be undertaken only after you have exhausted all other possible options for accessing this space.

Be sure you drill straight down through these boards. Cutting through your floor to access your crawl space is not a simple task. Second floor installations are easier because you will be able to see the double top plate from the attic. Make sure there are no wires or pipes in that area in the basement.

User20618 jan 25 17 at 14 21. To run the cables from the service panel into the crawl space remove the section of wallboard under the panel from the bottom of the panel and the floor line and drill one 1 inch hole down. I m planning on drilling a hole behind my tank in the hardwood floor through sub floor and into the crawl space. For example what i would do in your situation.