Recent content by tylluan

Thanks for the advice, everyone. There's one electric socket in a corner at the bottom of the wall I'm drilling, and definitely a cable running vertically above it, so I'm avoiding that area. Apart from that there's nothing else even close - no lights, switches, or anything like that. I'm...

I'm starting to think that even the simplest DIY jobs are beyond me. I'm trying to put some track shelving up on a wall, and used one of those cheapy cable locators to see if there were any electric wires or metal behind where I wanted to drill. Found what I thought were the safe places to...