Rumor has it that Sridhar Ayengar may have mentioned these words:
Basically my entire house was built in 1928, so
it's all really 2x4". And
there isn't any plywood. It's all floorboards. And plaster with wood lath.
Problem is that getting full-cut lumber is damn near
impossible nowadays,
and putting in new outlets, etc. is hard because of the plaster walls.
My house was built around 1880, and it's such a bodge anyway (both
electricity & internal plumbing were run about 10-15 years *after* it was
built) that for some electric & networking I ran conduit & external boxes
screwed into the wall/stud [1]...
... but where I had access to both sides of the wall (say, going into the
basement) I gutted the backside of the wall, marked out where I wanted my
new outlets & networking stuff to be routed, took a "zip-tool" (mine's
made
by Dremel - a circular router/cutting device) and a carbide blade, routed
holes through the lath & plaster, affixed the electrical / networking boxen
& then just re-drywalled the back side of the wall when I was done.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] That is, until I can gut the room(s) completely & rewire, reinsulate &
drywall it right. Of course, when I do, I will rewire for RS-232 as well! ;-)
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
_??_ zmerch at
30below.com
(?||?) If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
_)(_ disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.