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We figured it out, eventually
Oct. 9th, 2022 12:27 amToday, in the midsts of tiding away more of the things Keldor has been fetching from the old house (now that his brother has sold the house he needs to get the last of his things that he has been storing there) we were inspired to run the extra long internet cable from the office to the livingroom.
Not being interested in tripping over cables, we decided to run it high: from the router, up the wall, along the edge of the ceiling, through the wall into the stairwell, then through the next wall to the entryway, and through the next wall into the livingroom, then along the celing edge to the far side of the room, around the corner to the window and then down to the desk.
A nice, straightforward plan. So he got the drill and an extra long drill bit. I got the vacuum, and we both stood on the office couch and I held the nozzle under the drill bit, thus cleaning up most of the mess before it went anywhere, and successfully drilled the first hole.
Of course, the drill bit wasn't wide enough to feed the cable through the first hole as is, so he changed to a wider bit. Then he got back into position, standing on the as I turned the vacuum back on, and the fuse blew, killing the lights in both the bedroom and office.
Fixed the fuse, went to start again, same reaction. Replaceed the fuse again and plugged the vacuum into a socket in the other room, and got ready to drill again. Fuse blew. Decided to skip the vacuum, and just drill, but as the drill bit approached the wall the fuse blew, again.
Did we hit a wire we don't know about? ...Get one of the big bits designed to do a 15 cm hole and carefully drill out a plug,from the stairwell side, without vacuuming, incase something is wrong with it (which we are suspecting not, since one of the times it blew there was no vacuum involved).
Then time to thread the cable. But then the lights go out again. Now we are certain the outgages aren't the fault of the vacuum, and we can see into and through the whole wall--no cables near or in the hole.
Step on the couch, and the power goes out again. It is the couch! Wait, that lamp by the couch has a cable going to the floor and along the wall, perhaps that is the problem. Pull cable out from under the couch. Unplug it. Step on the couch again. No power failure. Yay! After that it was pretty straightforward to finish running the cable and attach a computer to it in the living room, and now he can watch fighting videos on YouTube on a big screen instead of his phone.
Not being interested in tripping over cables, we decided to run it high: from the router, up the wall, along the edge of the ceiling, through the wall into the stairwell, then through the next wall to the entryway, and through the next wall into the livingroom, then along the celing edge to the far side of the room, around the corner to the window and then down to the desk.
A nice, straightforward plan. So he got the drill and an extra long drill bit. I got the vacuum, and we both stood on the office couch and I held the nozzle under the drill bit, thus cleaning up most of the mess before it went anywhere, and successfully drilled the first hole.
Of course, the drill bit wasn't wide enough to feed the cable through the first hole as is, so he changed to a wider bit. Then he got back into position, standing on the as I turned the vacuum back on, and the fuse blew, killing the lights in both the bedroom and office.
Fixed the fuse, went to start again, same reaction. Replaceed the fuse again and plugged the vacuum into a socket in the other room, and got ready to drill again. Fuse blew. Decided to skip the vacuum, and just drill, but as the drill bit approached the wall the fuse blew, again.
Did we hit a wire we don't know about? ...Get one of the big bits designed to do a 15 cm hole and carefully drill out a plug,from the stairwell side, without vacuuming, incase something is wrong with it (which we are suspecting not, since one of the times it blew there was no vacuum involved).
Then time to thread the cable. But then the lights go out again. Now we are certain the outgages aren't the fault of the vacuum, and we can see into and through the whole wall--no cables near or in the hole.
Step on the couch, and the power goes out again. It is the couch! Wait, that lamp by the couch has a cable going to the floor and along the wall, perhaps that is the problem. Pull cable out from under the couch. Unplug it. Step on the couch again. No power failure. Yay! After that it was pretty straightforward to finish running the cable and attach a computer to it in the living room, and now he can watch fighting videos on YouTube on a big screen instead of his phone.