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Took me 4 hours to fish a line through a single wall in Des Moines
Had a new home run to pull for a customer's office remodel. The wall looked straight forward, but there was some old bracing inside that I couldn't get past. Tried from the attic, tried from the crawlspace, nothing worked. Ended up drilling a small access hole behind the baseboard and patching it after. Anybody else run into hidden fire blocking that eats up your whole afternoon?
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angela_grant1d ago
4 hours through a single wall in Des Moines? Must have been an older build with that diagonal let-in bracing. I'm curious though, was this an interior partition or an exterior wall you were fishing through? I've found that exterior walls in Des Moines often have that old balloon framing with fire stops every 8 feet, which can be a real pain. Did you try using a glow rod from the top and a fish tape from the bottom to see where they actually meet up?
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