{"id":22218,"date":"2008-06-19T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=22218"},"modified":"2008-07-28T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T16:27:59","slug":"drilling-into-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/06\/drilling-into-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilling into old-house walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep having trouble every time we try to install shelving or other hardware in the walls of our brownstone. We&#8217;ll drill through a top layer of plaster\/lath and then (either a half inch or one-inch in) hit a very hard surface that feels like metal. (These are interior, not party walls.) I&#8217;ll poke around one wall and find that I generally can&#8217;t drill anywhere in a given area. This has happened in a number of places in our house&#8230;. I don&#8217;t want to force drilling our of fear that I&#8217;ll run into electrical cable, but there&#8217;s so much of this stuff it can&#8217;t possible be all electrical. Stud finders don&#8217;t seem to help. there seems to be metal in random places back there. Any ideas? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep having trouble every time we try to install shelving or other hardware in the walls of our brownstone. We&#8217;ll drill through a top layer of plaster\/lath and then (either a half inch or one-inch in) hit a very hard surface that feels like metal. (These are interior, not party walls.) 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