The wired home

My dad and I just struggled for hours to drill two holes for speaker wire one in the living room flooring and a corresponding one 14 inches deeper in the sub flooring from the basement. (and trying not to get lost in between the two.) Everything went wrong, the holes were not close enough, the bit got lodged in the space between and it was tough to get it free by drilling a bigger hole around it -- could have easily been avoided with a 2 foot long drill bit.

Right after we finally prevailed and fished the wire through, I get a call from my only guy friend in town. I tell him this story and he laughs!. "You know I install cable for a living right? I've got a six foot long bit in my car right now. And these magnetic snakes that can fish a wire through like nothing"

But now I've got the rear surround channels going with a minimum of visible wire. Next project installing a flat screen above the fireplace (and hopefully concealing the cables).