Running Wires Through A Roof

Better to come out of wall then go up to the roof.

Running wires through a roof. Additionally if you ever need to redo the roof it will be a pain to deal with the wires that are now in the way. Protect the wall with a thin piece of cardboard etc. As soon as you have a hole you are providing a path for water. Drilling through the roof.

If drilling up through the ceiling expect to pass through a thin coat of plaster and 5 8 of sheet rock and 1 2 inch 1 3 cm of strapping to which the sheet rock is secured. The best way is to go around the roof not through it. Rigid conduit with an outside diameter of 3 4 in and a fish tape long enough to reach through the buried pipe. Running wires inside rigid conduit.

You can seal it but it s always going to be a weak spot. If the sites that you want to run wire to are on the outside of the house you should not need to drill a new hole. I did a painstaking process of trying to wire up a new power panel in our rv. Be sure to check out the latest gear i use on my adventures.

Organizing roof wires into plastic flex tubing screwing to roof and sealing before it rains. This option is quite self explanatory where a hole is simply drilled through the outer roof skin and wires passed through a rubber grommet into the roof cavity and fed down into the vehicle. Please refer to these above options as a guide only. When cutting through drywall from the interior of a room use a utility knife and cut carefully you don t want to drill through a hidden wire or the paper backing of the attic insulation.