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Why does nobody warn you about routing cables behind drywall in a 1920s house
I spent last Saturday trying to run two HDMI cables and a power line behind the plaster in my 1920s house near Cleveland. There is no cavity back there, just brick and old lath, so my fish tape kept snagging every 6 inches. I killed about 5 hours and went through 3 drill bits before giving up and stapling everything along the baseboard instead. Some folks say just cut a channel and patch it later, others swear by surface raceway and call cutting a waste of a weekend. So which one is right here? Did I just lose a day for nothing?
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susan_wells8d ago
Plaster and lath is a whole different animal from modern drywall, so dont beat yourself up. My uncle had a place like that in Toledo and tried running coax through the walls, ended up pulling down half a wall of the old plaster just to see what was back there. Turns out it was brick with furring strips and almost no gap, so he gave up too and used the kind of plastic channel stuff that sticks on the wall and hides the wires. His wife painted it to match and honestly you cant even tell unless you look close.
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