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RE: Finding a cable within a wall?!


  • Subject: RE: Finding a cable within a wall?!
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:17:21 +0100

Sounds like a b ... B ... B ...

:-D

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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Ian Lowe
> Sent: 11 September 2006 19:12
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Finding a cable within a wall?!
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> I picked up a "proper" nylon snake with brass ends for
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> 20m long, and bloody useful.
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> I used it to run speaker cable from the front of my room, out=20
> through the skin of the building, down through the cavity=20
> wall, through an air brick into the floor void, across to the=20
> back of the room and up through a hole drilled down through=20
> the inside of a partition wall...
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> try *that* with a bamboo cane! :D
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 11 September 2006 18:27
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Finding a cable within a wall?!
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> Or a cheap "value" curtain rail from Homebase can work
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> well ... I have one here that I use for just that.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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> > On Behalf Of Neil Fuller
> > Sent: 11 September 2006 18:11
> > To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Finding a cable within a wall?!
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> > Noel
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> > If this is a one-off, you could save a few quid and use a=20
> long bamboo=20
> > cane.
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> > Of course, if you are going to do this more than a couple of
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> > invest in a set of rods.
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> > Cheers
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> > Neil
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> > Chris Miles wrote:
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> > > Buy yourself a set of cable rods off ebay/b&q and tie=20
> your cable to=20
> > > the end and just keep feeding it till its where you want it
to be.
> > >
> > > I used this method for getting 4 cat 5 cables from my loft
> > down behind
> > > the plaster and breezeblock to my living room at a specific
point.
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> > > Chris
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> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: noel_pilot
> > > To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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> > > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:17 PM
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Finding a cable within a wall?!
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > Running a new cable from the loft - power but definitely
> > for HA cos it
> > > will eventually be to power the loftbox!!
> > >
> > > I have the space between the walls ok, have pushed the cable
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> > > suitable distance down and think it should be near the
> > socket i have
> > > in the bedroom below.
> > >
> > > Only trouble is, when I remove the socket below I can't
> > see/feel the
> > > cable from the loft!
> > >
> > > So....how do I find it?! There's insulation between the=20
> wall, I was=20
> > > thinking about a pipe/cable detector but I believe that
> > they will only
> > > find mains connected cables which of coures this isn't yet!!
> > >
> > > So...any ideas from the professionals?!
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Noel
> > >
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