Chasing a cable up a "dot and dab" wall

[The Natural Philosopher]

Actually I've got a back kitchen as well. We have 'the kitchen' and the 'back kitchen'

let her get used to it.

[Hugo Nebula]

On 26 Oct 2006 02:19:41 -0700, a particular chimpanzee named [e-mail] randomly hit the keyboard and produced:

On a similar question; I'm planning to move a thermostat and add another socket when I get a round tuit, but the cables will need to traverse the d&d plasterboard. If I chase out the plasterboard, it will have 'loose' edges where there is no adhesive under the edge. Will this be more prone to movement and cracking? Do I have to make sure the filler goes well under the edges of the boards? Or is there another technique?

[Howie]

|I'm planning on installing an LCD TV in our back kitchen (does anyone |have a front kitchen?). I will be hanging it on a bracket fastened to |the wall about 6 foot up. | |The kitchen is a new build extension, and the walls are blocks with |plaster board fixed by "dot and dab". I guess therefore there is a |slight cavity between the plasterboard and blocks. What I want to do |is run the cabling to the TV up that cavity, to keep the job neat and |tidy. Is there any way I could do that? Or might I just be better to |chisel out a channel in the board and fill it?

I've noticed that a lot of new-builds now use plasterboard with foam insulation (approx 200mm thick) for walls. Dot and Dab is the securing method here too - directly onto the insulated side.

_If_ your wall is of this construction, there is a beautiful way to insert cables behind it!

1/ Mark top and bottom entry - making sure you use a plumline to make sure they are exactly vertically level.

2/ cut out your entry hole and your exit hole.

3/ Heat up an old bolt - which you have attached to a steel trace-wire (a metal fishing trace is ideal as it is very flexible).

4/ drop the bolt in the top hole.

5/ retrieve it from the bottom hole. Then pull your cable through

- using the trace-wire.

H.

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