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Running speaker wire along baseboard heating pipes.

I want to run speaker wire through my basement using the same holes the baseboard heat pipes use, so I don’t have to drill new ones in the floor.

Is it safe to do this? Do these pipes get hot enough to melt the wire?

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jcd offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 minute after post)

It depends on how hot the pipes get. Cut a short piece of the wire and tie it to one of the pipes for a while and see if it melts.

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An Unknown Location | 7 months, 2 weeks ago (6 months, 1 week after post)

I did this last winter with CAT 5 and CAT 3 and had no problems. The water in my house is about 160 at the hottest. Thats scalding. I have hand no issue.

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