Cable,pipe,wood finder

[OhmElectrical]

Guys is there a decent make one if these out there that is actually reliable not squeals everytime it gets turned on?

 

[Plonker 3]

I find a hammer and nail always finds buried cables or pipes yet never timber when I need one to fix too.

other that no, I brought a Stanley one last year at Elex and found it a complete waste of £30.

 

[telectrix]

i've got a bosch. does the job. never rely on it 100% though. always drill carefully till you're sure you've hit the brick. not like i did at home t'other week. a buried gas pipe looked like a nice wide mortar joint till it started hissing at me.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

I find a hammer and nail always finds buried cables or pipes yet never timber when I need one to fix too.

other that no, I brought a Stanley one last year at Elex and found it a complete waste of £30.

So true! lol

 

[OhmElectrical]

Yes that's why don't fancy spending lots when it's a guess and drill with eyes shut and fingers crossed job anyway

 

[amlu]

for looking for wood battens under plasterboards get a small magnet. the stronger the better. slide it around till it sticks to a nail or a screwhead underneath.

 

[happydundee]

I have an apprentice who can find a water/gas or cable every time I give him the SDS. equally good at finding joists when cutting out fast fix boxes.

 

[PEG]

i've got a bosch. does the job. never rely on it 100% though. always drill carefully till you're sure you've hit the brick. not like i did at home t'other week. a buried gas pipe looked like a nice wide mortar joint till it started hissing at me.

...Aye,those buried treasures! some 25 years ago,when replacing my folks back boiler,i found a gas "spur" in the side of the chimney breast,fitted,i imagine,for the old gas-poker feed,which they never had.I left it in,but put a piece of 1/8th plate steel over it and plastered/skirted it in. Last year,after fitting a new Dunsley Yorkshire,the tiler was finishing off,and give it 3 tries with his SDS before giving up...i caught up with him,and said it was a good job i had thought to protect that pipe,and he said "It's not a good idea to do that,as no-one knows what is underneath,whilst if left,we would know a gas pipe ran there,coz it would leak..." :6: a specimen of logic which so far has escaped me...

 

[driverman]

Many an old lead gas pipe buried horizontally around a chimney breast. Gas pipes also ran flush diagonally on some properties that I've worked on.

 

[Guest77]

To find wood it isn't a guarentee, to find a cable or pipe much easier, you can buy pinpointers for metal detector enthusiasts which are brilliant to detect metals in walls and floors, the detectors to find all 3 as mentioned above not worth the money if accuracy is needed to be 100%.