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Re: Re: Finding a cable within a wall?!



yep.... worse nightmare.. I was lucky there was a gap between between
a plaster wall and the breeze block that went right down to the living
room. All the other rooms required chiseling holes out the noggins and
plastering up again.

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: noel_pilot
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Finding a cable within a wall?!


time to go home and find something heavy ish!! :)

think its the insulation that could prove challenging!

that and the possible presence of horizontal battons!

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Neil Ball" <neilball@...> wrote:
>
> If the route is relatively unobstructed then just get a piece of
string with
> a weight on it and drop it down the wall from the loft until you can
fish it
> out in the room below. You can then tape on your cable and fish it
back up
> the wall into the loft.
>
>
>
> Neil B.
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> noel_pilot
> Sent: 10 September 2006 22:17
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> 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 a
> 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 wall, I was
> 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
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>





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