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| Thread ID: 73218 | 2006-10-11 22:25:00 | Electrical wiring in a wall | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 490826 | 2006-10-16 02:40:00 | If your installing a shelf I assume you'll mount it to the stud? Power cables are normally screwed to the side of the stud, so you'd have to be doing some crazy screwing/nailing to hit a wire. So as long as you nail/screw nice and straight roughly in the middle of the stud there wont be any problems. | Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 490827 | 2006-10-16 04:19:00 | Examine the swarf as it comes out. If you see white, green&yellow , blue, or brown PVC, you found a power cable. :D The best thing I ever saw a drill find behind a wall panel was a compressed air line. The condensed water in that section of the air line made quite a display in the time it took to find a shutoff valve. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 490828 | 2006-10-16 06:13:00 | If your installing a shelf I assume you'll mount it to the stud? Power cables are normally screwed to the side of the stud not in the majority of NZ homes. most cables "hang" inside the space between studs and nogs. if your screwing into a stud (no rude jokes please!) then there is a chance you can hit the wires in the exact same point the wires go through the stud. fairly rare but known to happen. easy way is to use a stud finder to detect cables. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 490829 | 2006-10-16 17:01:00 | I ain't screwing it into the stud - there's only one stud in this wall, and the shelf is only a lightweight thing to hold papers and disks. | Greg (193) | ||
| 490830 | 2006-10-19 13:03:00 | Examine the swarf as it comes out. If you see white, green&yellow , blue, or brown PVC, you found a power cable. :D The best thing I ever saw a drill find behind a wall panel was a compressed air line. The condensed water in that section of the air line made quite a display in the time it took to find a shutoff valve. NICE :lol: :lol: :lol: |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
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