So I have about 6 or 7 receptacles that are like this, that I need to fish to. Above the ceiling is unfinished and insulated, albeit a little short in height. I need to get cable from a hole for a box between the window and door up into the attic, where I have a j-box, but there is a top plate between where the wall meets the slanted ceiling. Walls are plaster & wood lath. I did make a hole to pull the circuits from basement to attic, but I had to make one about 14" tall to fit my drill and bit into the space to drill the top plate. I'd rather not make that size of hole 7 more times if I don't have to. How would you go about fishing romex up this wall? [ATTACH]80058[/ATTACH]

Hi, i just replaced a 1940-or-so bedroom ceiling fixture with a westinghouse ceiling fan brace. It was not a painless experience. Anyhoo, now I want to hook up the new ceiling fan. But the wiring I encountered seems wrong. Cable is steel armor, two-wire cloth wrapped. 3 flex conduits 1 wirenut with 1 wire from each conduit 1 wirenut with 1 wire from each of two conduits, plus a BLACK wire to the old light the 1 remaining wire connected to WHITE wire from the old light The old wires are mostly too frayed to tell if they were labeled black or white. So I can't tell. I did cut back one of the conduits (i had to; the wire broke), and the cloth, when I unwrapped the crumbling paper wrap, looked for all the world to be white. THIS WAS ODD, BECAUSE it was one of the two wires that were wired to the BLACK wire of the old fixture. It seems to me that if that wire were white, it would have been connected to another white wire, plus the white fixture wire. So I'm wondering if whoever installed the fixture wired it wrong. And how can I discern this? I have the use of a Mastech MS8232B but I'm not, um, adept with it. Also, as it stands the 6 wires in the box are in very close proximity to each other... Any and all assistance appreciated.