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A cable and pipe finder is a useful tool to have in your armoury.
For cables, in the UK at least, they're supposed to run either vertically or horizontally in the wall, so you can draw a line from sockets, switches etc, and work out if a cable is likely to be there, but I've seen some horrible bodges where cables have been run in channels cut into the plaster and plastered over diagonally across walls!
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Years ago, I needed to drill a simple hole in a wall in the garage for a bicycle mounting hook.
Easy as pie, right? 
I got the old (sound-based) stud finder out and check for a stud.
In the exact place where I needed to place the hook the stud finder got wonky.
It went red and sounded for the stud, but it seemed a bit wide and it was a bit weaker signal right in that area.
I checked it for 20 minutes and convinced myself that the stud finder was just a bit off and it was all going to be all right.
I drilled. Put the hook in.
Didn't seem quite right but hook was staying and it definitly wasn't just in the drywall.
I must've hit the stud, right?
So away I went and then later that evening I noticed that there was some water coming out of the place where the hook was in the wall. 
Good news, I hadn't hit an incoming pipe.
Bad news, I had hit the drain pipe from upstairs and each time you flushed water would spray out. 
Yes, I'm an idiot. But it's a lesson learned.
I still have that old stud finder, but I know that when it doesn't make its sound exactly right that I need to be aware.
Lesson learned. But painful lesson.
Oh, by the way, when they came to fix the pipe and they cut into the drywall...
I had hit the dead-on center of the pipe with the hook hole. OY!
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absolute truth, but there is a dark side to your suggestion: drawers and drawers and shelves full of boxes, organizers, etc of "things you might need in the future." I'm trying to cull my garage and storage at the moment - looking at years worth of nails and screws and stuff I have no idea where it's at. Worse, my son - well meaning - cleaned and reorganized the garage for me. I'm doomed.
I live 4 miles from Home Depot and 4.5 miles from Lowes. These days for special projects like the OP, I buy as much as I think I'll need, double it, then return what I did not use within the week. Now I just need to have a discussion with y daughter and all of here planting supplies.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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1. For every project, you get to buy a new tool.
2. I had to buy more tools to build shelves for all my tools.
3. Every project requires at least 3 trips to the supply store.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Frustrating, eh?
For anchor bolts I put a collar of masking tape around the bolt before sliding it in the pre-drilled hole. This provides enough friction to allow the expansion to happen so the bolt can grab and you can then tighten fully.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's not what you think.[^]
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I am lost for words.
I got there late
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I hate to think what they'd have said had it been carrying Roger's Profanisaurus[^] instead. 
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- Homer
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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So, I pay all my utilities via credit card, and I receive emails when the bill is due and amount. Last month, the water department notified me that my bill was $240 and change. Considering my normal bill is $39 my attention was captured.
Here's the interesting thing - about 4 months ago, the water department started rolling out smart meters that they could query and collect usage information. Think now - water department, smart meters, automatic billing.... most of the people I've met from the county departments leave me less than inspired. This month, my water usage has been at a square wave. Normally 400 gallons a month, it's been spiking at various times and days to over a thousand gallons per day. I've already pointed out that their data is corrupt, but all I get is a tired voice on the line.
I may have found a new career, no, sorry misspoke, consulting opportunity.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: consulting opportunity
Working for them seems more of a headache opportunity.
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charlieg wrote: over a thousand gallons per day.
Wow! That's like a 1" pipe going full tilt the whole day! Maybe you shouldn't fill your pool daily; you know, it's not a bathtub
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Maybe you shouldn't fill your pool daily; you know, it's not a bathtub
My mother-in-law once got a water bill that was the equivalent of filling her pool 10 times daily for an entire month! The water company then compounded the mistake by crediting her account - twice!
They never corrected the account. I told her that when she moved away from her old house, she should have asked them to close out the account and pay her the sum. 
At least the local paper got an amusing article out of it showcasing the incompetence of the water company.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Correct. And I have made the point that we don't have a pool. The general attitude I'm picking up is (a) oh elephant, I don't know anything about these meters... or (b) yawn, just another local whining about their bill.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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