angellonewolf
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Beat me to it, I've got a 300m roll in the shed I'd be happy to cut a length off.
You can have a ready made wall mount outlet like this or make up your own to fit a standard backbox let into the wall, you would need a frontplate and a couple of modules which are available in different styles/colours to suit decor.
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Thanks guys for the advice and kind offers of some cable 
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Sorry for not replying last night but I went and had a late night rummage in my 'chuck it in there' shed because I had a faint memory of having a length of cable, I have...bright yellow but it will be hidden except for behind the TV unit so all is well.
I also now only require one cable, change of plans about some kit I was thinking of getting.
So all is sorted, just need to drill a neat hole through the famous hard as steel Whitehaven Bricks that are known to eat masonry drills for breakfast and I will be in business
.Sorry for not replying last night but I went and had a late night rummage in my 'chuck it in there' shed because I had a faint memory of having a length of cable, I have...bright yellow but it will be hidden except for behind the TV unit so all is well.
I also now only require one cable, change of plans about some kit I was thinking of getting.
So all is sorted, just need to drill a neat hole through the famous hard as steel Whitehaven Bricks that are known to eat masonry drills for breakfast and I will be in business
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low and slow and good drill
years ago was working installing networking stuff the bloke i was working with did one side of the building i had the other side with a few poeple each for to do the work all my guys where moaning as we had a 90meter run to do theres was only 30 meters
any way we got on with it we had ours pulled in in one day (we needed to sort out trunking box and terminate) the other team was puting all the trunking up but was having a job to drill the holes in 2 walls even went and got a hilti drill as ours was not getting through they give it up and said we will finsh it tomorrow
2nd day we started early 8am and at 12 pm we had near finshed i even sent 2 of my guys to help them they had every thing ready all terminated boxed just needed to pull the cables through the hole and put in to the server box but they had been drilling with the hilti drill all morning and had got 2 feet in to the wall and had still not got through the caretaker come up the stairs and see where the bloke was drilling and said "you might be there a while that wall is granite and 6 feet thick" all my team started rollingaround the floor laughing as ours was done and finshed and they had to reroute all the cables and trunking round in to the hall way and in to the sever room we all mucked in and got it done by 4pm but was a good laugh lucky when they pulled the cables they added quite a few meters of cable or we would of had to replace all the cables as well
years ago was working installing networking stuff the bloke i was working with did one side of the building i had the other side with a few poeple each for to do the work all my guys where moaning as we had a 90meter run to do theres was only 30 meters
any way we got on with it we had ours pulled in in one day (we needed to sort out trunking box and terminate) the other team was puting all the trunking up but was having a job to drill the holes in 2 walls even went and got a hilti drill as ours was not getting through they give it up and said we will finsh it tomorrow
2nd day we started early 8am and at 12 pm we had near finshed i even sent 2 of my guys to help them they had every thing ready all terminated boxed just needed to pull the cables through the hole and put in to the server box but they had been drilling with the hilti drill all morning and had got 2 feet in to the wall and had still not got through the caretaker come up the stairs and see where the bloke was drilling and said "you might be there a while that wall is granite and 6 feet thick" all my team started rollingaround the floor laughing as ours was done and finshed and they had to reroute all the cables and trunking round in to the hall way and in to the sever room we all mucked in and got it done by 4pm but was a good laugh lucky when they pulled the cables they added quite a few meters of cable or we would of had to replace all the cables as well
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I do..every time, out of probably 20 to 30 holes over the years in three houses made of the same bricks I have hit the mortar line errrrrrr... let me think......... perhaps once
They are a well known brick hated by local builders, they have a semi glazed exterior and the inside has a blueish material, they are super hard and make sparks if you hit them, hence my purchase years ago of a decent SDS drill.
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When I was an apprentice I was sent into the cellar under the foundry pattern shop while the sparky drilled through the concrete floor to run a cable in, after half an hour he comes down to ask where the hole had appeared, no sign of it, turns out basement is shorter than the shop above and he had just been drilling into the foundations
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I do..every time, out of probably 20 to 30 holes over the years in three houses made of the same bricks I have hit the mortar line errrrrrr... let me think......... perhaps once
They are a well known brick hated by local builders, they have a semi glazed exterior and the inside has a blueish material, they are super hard and make sparks if you hit them, hence my purchase years ago of a decent SDS drill.
Sounds like similar stuff to our Stairfoot/Yorkshire brick. Normal hammer drills could never really cut it with those. SDS, else you'd blunt no end of bits drilling holes.
