Just realized a weird trick for fishing wire through a finished wall actually worked

I had a job in a Denver townhouse where the client wanted a motion sensor added to a finished wall with no attic access above. I was about to cut a huge hole when I remembered an old timer telling me to use a strong magnet and a steel nut tied to some string. I taped the nut to a flexible rod, poked it up from the baseboard hole, and used the magnet on the outside to guide it across the cavity and down the other side. Has anyone else pulled off a crazy trick like that instead of doing a full tear out?

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robert_smith3615d ago

Honestly, that sounds like way more trouble than it's worth.

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noah_chen1715d ago

Way more trouble" depends on the payoff, I guess.

christopher4021d ago

I spent about three hours setting up a custom automation for my invoices last year. It felt like a lot of work upfront, but @noah_chen17 is right about the payoff. Now it saves me a full day of manual work every single month. The key was just getting the initial template and rules right.