Not sure how easy it is going to be to describe what I am looking for here, but here goes.
Down the sides of my chimney breasts I have an empty void. It runs from the attic right down to the foundations and is accessible from the attic.
I would like to use that void to run some antenna cables down - dropping them from the attic then pulling them in a hole drilled into the chimney breast below the ground floor. From there the cables run to all downstairs rooms. At the moment the cable runs down the outside of the house and is unsightly.
Now, the problem. The bottom four foot or so of this void has had bits of broken bricks dropped down it. You just couldn't get the workers to do a proper job in the '90s (the 1890s). I would like to pull out enough of these bricks to get access to just below floor level, so I can drill the hole and push the cable in from below the floor.
The question is: how would I do this? Ideally I would have a grab hand on a long rope, like those fairground machines that never let you win by dropping the phone or watch you pick up, but a working one. The column to pull the bricks out of is about 17 foot deep, and a foot square. Any ideas how I could do this?
If this is not possible, I would need to run the cable into the chimney breast above the floor, where I then need to think about hiding the cable that would be visible in the room, which is not ideal.
-- JJ