quick visit under my suspended wooden floor. How much?

andrew-b

aliasojo wrote: »

Anyway, thanks for all your help and suggestions. I am still going to buy some cable access rods for future use, btw.

And you let your OH up again? I'd have been tempted to shut your OH down there until he agrees to do a bit more about the house or at least pay for a tradesmen to come in? :mad:
Access rods seem a bit of a waste of money to me when you've got relatively simple access beneath. Child labour is cheaper ..or i'd have done it for you for nothin if i lived nearby (as well as a good few others here i'm sure!).

Andy

Mutton_Geoff

I find rectangular plastic trunking the best thing to do this with. Use it without the lid on, tape the wire to the starting end and lay the cable inside the trunking. Don't tape the cable in any other places else you won't be able to recover the trunking without dragging your cable back with it, although a loop of tape around the trunking every metre or so retains the cable inside without securing it too firmly.

The rectangular shape is easier to manipulate than rods, poles or a "fish". Tape several sections in series as you feed it down the hole.

Errata

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

Don't laugh, but a chap in our village has a FERRET that I know he's used for similar jobs......actually I'd get those cable rods; at least they don't bite!

My mate used her Jack Russell terrier ! Anyways........thanks for the posts on this thread, you've also solved my problem.:T

vivatifosi

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

Don't laugh, but a chap in our village has a FERRET that I know he's used for similar jobs......actually I'd get those cable rods; at least they don't bite!

Do you think that the ferret can use SCUBA equipment? If so I may have a job for it...

Norma_Desmond

vivatifosi wrote: »

Do you think that the ferret can use SCUBA equipment? If so I may have a job for it...

LOL! I can just see its' owner trying to stuff it into SCUBA gear....it bites like hell! The ferret's name is Malcolm BTW :rotfl:

wallbash

I wanted a cable to run under two rooms, my brain wave was to use drain rods:D

Plasticman

aliasojo wrote: »

:rotfl: That made me laugh.

Deed is done. But not by me.

OH came home whilst I was in tears and went under the floor himself and pushed the cable up the hole. I'm even more fed up now.

(Very short explanation - He makes me feel like I'm a burden and doesn't give help willingly for anything so I no longer ask him for help as I'm fed up being made to feel a nuisance...you know the kind of thing....sigh/roll eyes to ceiling or say nothing but do it grudgingly and make it obvious? Asking for any kind of help = instant mood in our house. Years of this has taken it's toll and I'd rather cut off my right arm now than ask for his help.)

So, I have a cable, but not the way I wanted it. :rolleyes:

Anyway, thanks for all your help and suggestions. I am still going to buy some cable access rods for future use, btw.

Tape 2 extending poles together and screw a hook on the end. Tape the kitchen broom to all that. Take the poles and (hook end first) threaten to ram them up your OHs @rse if he doesn't get down that bloody hatch and push the cable up the hole.

Mutton_Geoff

Reminds me of a visit to the doc with terrible flatulence. He turned around and produced a long wooden pole with a metal hook on the end. "What are you going to do with that?" I asked. "Open the windows, there's a terrible smell in here".

Boom boom.