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On Oct 4, 7:22*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Oct 4, 7:47*pm, Anthony wrote:

I have this small slightly over 2' wall in bathroom of an older house.
I used my finder and got a reaction right almost in the center of that
wall. I then drilled a small hole to confirm it. I did hit something
and pulled the drill out. Now, my question is that i had to drill
almost 2'' before it made contact. Aren't studs suppose to be almost
flush against a drywall, with the exception of the depth of the
drywall?

What do you mean by "older house".

"An older house" is a rather relative term.

Older than this one?

http://www.jjcafe.net/photography/we.../frontpage.jpg

or older than this one?

http://www.twinwolf.net/~tsb/old%20house.jpg

Something like a "1940's house" or an "1890's house" might help us
determine what you have found.

In any case, when you drilled through the wall, did it feel like you
went through the wall material, then went through some open space and
then hit the "something" or did it feel like you were drilling through
2 inches of wall material before you hit the "something".

If there was open space, you could have hit a vent pipe, a piece of BX
cable, who knows.

Depending on your wall thickness and material, the stud finder could
be giving you inaccurate readings.

For example, my walls are 3/4" thick, made up of 3/8" brown paper
covered, tongue and groove plasterboard (laid horizontal) then covered
in a 3/8" layer of plaster. Using a stuff finder is a bear on these
walls and I've gotten lots of false positives over the years.

Derbydad is 100% correct

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