Conduit Attic To Basement

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Conduit attic to basement.

Home owner tips upgrades and maintenance. This will allow me to distribute cat6 coax etc. I need to run low voltage wire in my house and i need to place 3 pvc conduit from attic to basement 9 ft. Conduit from basement to attic.

I want to be sure that i don t damage the integrity of the top plate by drilling a hole too large in the top plate a 2 x 4 is 3 5 inches wide leaving 1 2 inch on either side of the hole for integrity. I would also like to run conduit in each room on the top floor to the attic. If you have a basement have them run a blank vent pipe from the basement to the attic in case in the future you finish your basement and you like to add a bathroom or a sink down there all you have to do is connect. I haven t done that yet and i haven t checked to see whether there are any.

I am in ontario canada. Do i need to pack each end with some sort of fire stop. Gas line for bbq grill. I ll start the holes for the conduit up in the attic and cut the 10 lengths of conduit into sizes that i insert into the walls from the attic.

Each room would have a wall plate but the end in the attic would be open. I ll insert three sections at a time one in each hole and have someone on the floor below catch them in case the fireblocking is lower than the length of the conduit. Throughout the second floor rooms. Is this a fire issue.

I plan to run conduit 2 pvc from the ceiling in the first floor to the attic in the second floor. Basement to second floor attic wire conduit. I can go with 2 if needed. I ve also thought about going outside from the basement and running conduit up the outside of my house to the attic.

My house is two floors with an insulated attic above the second floor.