Just realized a weird trick for fishing wire through a finished wall actually worked

I had a job in a Denver townhouse where the client wanted a motion sensor added to a finished wall with no attic access above. I was about to cut a huge hole when I remembered an old timer telling me to use a strong magnet and a steel nut tied to some string. I taped the nut to a flexible rod, poked it up from the baseboard hole, and used the magnet on the outside to guide it across the cavity and down the other side. Has anyone else pulled off a crazy trick like that instead of doing a full tear out?

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robert_smith3613d ago

Honestly, that sounds like way more trouble than it's worth.

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noah_chen1713d ago

Way more trouble" depends on the payoff, I guess.