GB wrote:
On 23/02/2021 20:30, Chris Green wrote:
Tricky Dicky wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 19:06:15 UTC, undefined wrote:
After serious thinking Chris Green wrote :
I know it's a tall order but still I may as well ask...

Is there any clever way of getting a cable through a hidden stud
behind plasterboard? I want to feed a lamp from a switch mounted on
an internal dry-lined wall but unfortunately there's one piece of
timber between the switch and the light.

It's a very low current requirement, 3.5 watts at 240 volts so
something like 15mA.
If it's near the ceiling, you can drill through, but other than that...

You need to make a hole in the PB, over the level of the stud, get the
cable through, then fill the hole.

If it is a stud you are trying to pass cable through then you little option
but to cut out a small section of plasterboard across the stud. You can
then either notch the stud or drill though it to pass the cable. You then
need to cover the cable notch with one of these;

https://www.screwfix.com/p/sabrefix-...-20-pack/30038

If you cut the PB with a multi tool at an angle of 45deg around the edges
the piece can simply be replaced using some filler to both glue it in place
and to make good.

The trouble is I'm not sure we have the same/original coloured paint.


You've made my day.


It's possible (and I think flying pigs are involved) that you can remove
the switch and backbox, and drill diagonally through the stud. Somehow
feed a cable through and fish it from the other side.

It's actually slightly easier than that, the stud is closer to the
destination than to the switch so the switch doesn't need to be
removed to get drill access. I can (maybe) drill diagonally from the
destination through the stud. We'll see.


Or, you can repaint the wall.

The other possibilities are to drill straight through the wall - you
haven't said what's the other side. A cupboard would be good!

No, it's the landing.


Or drop a cable down and run it behind a skirting board. Then somehow
fish it up to where you want it. That might actually work.

Or repaint the wall. I may have mentioned that?


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Chris Green
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