void inspection / making good

["Jonathan Tawn @ Home" <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chaps,



I'm due to go and start a job on Thursday (a fairly basic 'tv room') and in
the middle of the ceiling there is a steel I-beam / girder / big piece of
steel that runs the length of the room, and this is where I feel would be
appropriate for running the cables for the rear speakers, but before I can
confirm this wont be a problem, and ideally without cutting out a big
square
of plasterboard, i remember seeing what looked like a mini periscope for
this very purpose, one would cut a small-ish hole and pop in this periscope
and have a look inside the cavity/void to see if the cable run will be ok.



I believe this product was sold from "the max distribution" (a
now defunct
company?) and after a quick google i ended up looking at 500quid's worth of
endescope - could anyone tell me if they are aware of anything which may be
appropriate and not 500quid!?



And on this very note, in the past, to make good the bit i'd cut out, i
normally would use a long, thin-ish piece of plasterboard inserted into the
hole with a bit of gripfill on the back of it to hold it in place (like a
brace, spanning behind the hole either side), then glue the bit i'd just
cut
out back in place, with a little filler fill around it, a quick sand and
all
sorted, is this the 'correct' method of hole repair?



Apologies for all the questions & thanks in advance,



Regards,

Jonathan



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