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TheOriginalJames said:
I just hate this old house. Stupid being built before electricity was big on being installed in houses.

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Man oh man do I hear that. We are engaged in a 100 year old rehab project -- almost have all the old gas for lighting pipes removed. The basement had an earth floor and the main pillars are tree trunks. Living in a two story victorian built before 1900. I'm beginning to hate it.
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TheOriginalJames said:
bwahaaaaaaaaaahahahaha I can tell neither of you have ever, ever ran wire on an exterior wall from inside an attic before.

Hell, it's next to impossible without a pull wire and a predrilled hole with cat5e, let alone romex...
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You'd be incorrect in your deduction. The house we have now had 1 duplex in each room, and each one of those was a 2 prong instead of grounded. We now have 1 plug on each wall, the longer ones having at least 2, some having 3 now.

With 2 people and a fish tape .. it's not hard at all. I used to help my dad install satellite systems in pre-existing skyscrapers.

And, exactly what would be your purpose for running wire for an interior plug to an exterior wall from the attic for?

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SRC said:
You'd be incorrect in your deduction. The house we have now had 1 duplex in each room, and each one of those was a 2 prong instead of grounded. We now have 1 plug on each wall, the longer ones having at least 2, some having 3 now.

With 2 people and a fish tape .. it's not hard at all. I used to help my dad install satellite systems in pre-existing skyscrapers.

And, exactly what would be your purpose for running wire for an interior plug to an exterior wall from the attic for?

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Wow, thanks for that diagram of someone with open walls drilling with a flex bit... on an interior wall. Its QUITE a bit difference drilling a sill plate in the VERY edge of the sloped roof of an attic where the roof line meets the wall line.

Your house is 80 years old and you were directly on the roof-to-wall line in the attic drilling the sill plate?

Doubt it very highly, and no I'm not ripping apart walls to be able to get a long flex drill bit like that.

My house has finished ceilings on the main floor, so the only access to my room for wiring would be through the attic, thats why i would need to put on through the attic.

The problem with doing it is that I won't have help and I don't have the funds or the tools to do it. Thereby making it impossible.
 
TheOriginalJames said:
The problem with doing it is that I won't have help and I don't have the funds or the tools to do it. Thereby making it impossible.
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Well now see that's completely different than the original post .. it's not that it's impossible .. it's just not feasible in your situation, which is understandable.

If I thought my dad would allow it I'd Fedex you some tools .. but I don't think he'd go for it lol, sorry.
 
My company has a flex (diversi-bit), but it won't work in the attic. Been there, tried that.

I run wires all day almost everyday, a 20 minute job on an interior wall will take 1-2 hours on an exterior wall, providing the attic has an easy entrance and/or I have help and the insulation doesn't hang up a fishtape.
 
I'm having a hard time understanding why you don't just tear up a little sheetrock/drill through a stud, and why you're wanting to drill through a sill plate/exterior wall.

When we installed our extra duplex's .. we simples went sidways through the wall and connected with the exisiting duplex's; then put in an extra circuit breaker for the rooms that got new duplex's.

Unless you have metal studs in your walls .. I'm confused, really.
 
Because my walls aren't sheetrock. They're mortar.

Sill plates are what connect the vertical walls to the roofline, at that point is where the roof connects to the wall of the house.

You simply went side to side, but my two outlets are on opposite sides of the room, on interior walls. To do electrical on an exterior wall, I'd have to pretty much rip down the entire wall... which is NOT going to happen.

The way I'm talking about is running the wire through the attic and then down to the basement to the fuse box. Also, not ever going to happen.
 
TheOriginalJames said:
You simply went side to side, but my two outlets are on opposite sides of the room, on interior walls. To do electrical on an exterior wall, I'd have to pretty much rip down the entire wall... which is NOT going to happen.
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Some of ours were too .. we just went up and over the doors/windows.

Hell, if I wanted more duplex's .. I think I'd just run some wire on the outside of the wall and cover them .. or sheetrock over them. You could even install floor duplex's.

Maybe sheetrock is more where you live .. here it's only $5-8 a sheet.

I couldn't live with limited plug access. I'd be blowing fuses right and left with strips lol.
 
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