The telephone guy who did my house used a flexible fiber glass pole to get
the wire through. It came in sections so that he could make it as long as he
liked without needing alot of room. IF you have alot of fishing to do it may
be worth the cost. The one he used runs about $90 but you can go the
homestore and buy a chimney cleaning kit with exact same fiberglass poles
for $19. The difference being the wire attachment point. I drilled a hole in
the end and havent lost a wire yet

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I'm in the process of pulling new phone cable for my house and tied the
old cable to the new cable with electrical tape. Unfortunately the two
became separated and now I need to push the new cable through the 1/4" or
so hole in the wall and out the house. I know the holes aren't aligned,
so I'm hoping there is an easier way to do this that doesn't involve "cut
the drywall" The jack that it came from was a surface mount jack, so
there is no box in the wall, just a hole in the drywall.

I know that there is fishtape, but for some reason I thought the head on
fishtape was larger than the diameter of phone cable. The holes are
almost exactly the diameter of the phone cable, if not smaller, whoever
did the fishing of the wires did a really good job. The hole is small
enough so that looking through it is hopeless - no eyeballing this job.