Drywall patching

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" plus you get the roof shingle nails sticking in your head"
I've been there too. A few years back I had my head stuffed in an attic eve minus the extra thick insulation.
I went to the barber at the end of the day and I totally freaked him out! I had tiny pin holes in my scalp. I didn't even notice them because you get so involved in what you're doing at the time.
I told him what it was and apologized to the poor guy and told him I'll come back another day. He didn't care after that he joked that he just didn't want to get blamed for cutting my scalp. :)
 
Eddie702 said:
I had to get a few new cables down from the attic. With the roof pitch they had you can't barely reach the top plate no way to drill it, plus you get the roof shingle nails sticking in your head. I had to drill from the bottom up with an angle drill attachment and cut some holes in the drywall.

Couldn't use a Dversabit with the kitchen counter
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Here's a helpful hint or two.

More than once, I have removed an upper cabinet to make access holes that require patching, but not finishing. There are usually 2 or 3 top screws, 1 or 2 bottom ones, and a couple into or from the face of the one on each side.

Alternately, you can make a hole in the back of, or above the cabinet that you can cover with a blank plate.

If the cabinet hits the ceiling, come into the top of the cabinet at the back, then into the wall, and cover with a short length of plastic Wiremold channel. One drop per outlet, J-box in attic.
 
LarryFine said:
More than once, I have removed an upper cabinet to make access holes that require patching, but not finishing. There are usually 2 or 3 top screws, 1 or 2 bottom ones, and a couple into or from the face of the one on each side.
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That's not for the faint of heart.
Some guys start freaking out when they back the screws out of the face frame and it pulls a chunk of wood out with it. Drilling the wood out a bit first with a drill bit slightly larger than the screw head can really save the day

Alternately, you can make a hole in the back of, or above the cabinet that you can cover with a blank plate.
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2-gang blank on a data ring can be a fisherman's best friend for the day
 
acin said:
I sometimes cut in a new receptacle to have a pull point.
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Me, too. Once, a serving opening with a counter-top was being cut in the wall between a kitchen and dining room, and there was a cable from above to an existing receptacle below the opening, and there was a full floor above.

I opened the existing receptacle box, pulled the cable up from the receptacle box, drilled through the cut studs above and below the new opening to one side, ran the old cable to the side above, and a new cable up from the receptacle.

The two cables met in a new receptacle box I cut into the edge of the opening, so it faced the new window counter-top instead of into either room. The customer loved having a receptacle there for a coffee pot or a toaster.
 
LarryFine said:
Me, too. Once, a serving opening with a counter-top was being cut in the wall between a kitchen and dining room, and there was a cable from above to an existing receptacle below the opening, and there was a full floor above.

I opened the existing receptacle box, pulled the cable up from the receptacle box, drilled through the cut studs above and below the new opening to one side, ran the old cable to the side above, and a new cable up from the receptacle.

The two cables met in a new receptacle box I cut into the edge of the opening, so it faced the new window counter-top instead of into either room. The customer loved having a receptacle there for a coffee pot or a toaster.
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That's why we get paid the big money;)
 
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