I need to perform optic surgery to string wire though a drywall.
This really started out as a funny story, but now it's serious. You know when you make an appointment with the cable guy to fix one problem, and then he creates another? Well, that's part of the problem, but I feel for the kid. Very young and the poor guy was suffering from a mistake that probably could have happened to anyone. In short, he came in to update our old DVR that had crashed and after he did that job, he suggested that he go to each other t.v. in the house to fix the feedback problem he found on the old analogs. Since I had noticed a lot of crashes on my television viewing, it made sense.
He did okay until he got to the kitchen where the original wire was strung through the walls during a kitchen installation. Back then, there was nothing but a blank wall. But now there is tiled backsplash and cabinets blocking the target area. Unfortunately, the kid let go of the existing wire before he connected it and the wire just disappeared into the wall. He spent at least twenty minutes trying to rethread a new cable and I heard his cries of desperation coming from the attic. Don't ask me to be hard on him. He was about the same age as my son, and I know his pain was real.
He called in reinforcements and all tried, and all failed. The options they suggested were just not acceptable. You don't go through a remodeling in a kitchen just to run cable on the outside of a wall. At some point you just realize that if you want to do it right, you do it yourself.
Before leaving, the kid told me that he dropped a flex wire down the wall. So I'm thinking this might not be as bleak as it looks. It just might be a simple case of drilling through a blue plate (which is not connected to any wiring) and look for the flex wire. The problem is, of course, that I would need an optic eye on another flex wire to look between the walls.
Does anyone know how to Macgyver such a contraption?
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