How To Hide Wires In Vinyl Siding

Remove the outer jacket from the cable ends using the cable ripper or the utility knife.

How to hide wires in vinyl siding.

You could even use some duct seal or silicone to hold it in place. Conceal with flex tubing. Home improvement expert lou manfredini shows kathie lee and hoda some tips and tricks for hiding electrical cords how to choose the right front door and demonstrates how to replace vinyl siding. Use some clothes pins to hold it in place until the silicone dries.

As much as i don t care for it most retrofit a c installs i ve seen use a downspout to conceal the lineset and wires. Use cable ties to bundle cords and snip off the ends as needed. That in conjunction with opening up some sheathing on the outside to get wires routed on the correct side of the wall may clean things up a bit. To make the connections in the junction box.

The vinyl should flex enough to create a gap. There are lots of clips that use two sided tape in the electrical section of the hardware big box store. I have tucked cat5 under the j channel at the bottom of my siding back when i thought i needed to hide the wires. Measure the length of the cords you want to conceal then measure and cut flex tubing to match the length.

Remove 3 4 inches of insulation from the individual wires. Pull the tube apart and wrap around the wires that were tied together. Insert the hooked tip of the fish tape into the gap and push the tip a few inches behind the siding before. My cable tv the old telephone wire and some of the hardwired network cat5 is permanently in there per association rules.

Pull up gently on the lower lip of the vinyl siding where you wish to hide the cable.