don_Juan_oven

don_Juan_oven t1_j9da6oz wrote

I installed security systems for a summer, and we had to drill a finger-sized hole behind the panel to drop the wire down the stud space to pop out at an outlet for the plug. I was having the absolute worst time getting the pull, ended up with a palm-sized hole (still fine, it would be hidden by the panel) and couldn't make it. With the customer's blessing, my manager (who had come to find out what was taking me so long) cut a hole big enough to look inside the wall. The framer had decided to slant a stud from bottom left to top right of the "cell" for some idiot reason, and the angle was slight enough that we couldn't sense it by touch. Moral of the story, don't trust that the framer from a full sixty years ago did what they were supposed to do, or that nothing has been changed since then.

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