If you have to cut a hole, and if you feel slightly handy, it takes hardly anytime at all to patch the hole back up with drywall. Cut out a square hole, KEEP THE PIECE fish out the wire, using whatever technique you like, you can make the hole big enough for your hand if you want. Go to your local hardware store and buy a drywall patch that is bigger than the hole you cut and some pre-mixed drywall compound. these patches are sticky like tape and are just a bunch of little squares. Stick the patch to the piece of drywall you have taken out and then fit it back in the hole (making sure the wire is out :) ) The patch should hold the drywall back in place and leave you with a relatively small gap where the wire comes out. Take the compound (and I'll assume you have a trowel or something else metallic to spread the compound with) and make the compound nice and smooth and covering the entire patch etc. as you get further out from the patch make the compound thinner until there is basically none.
Make it as smooth as possible then sand the next day slightly trying to again achieve smoothness. If you don't like what you see when you are done sanding, add more compound and try again (just try not to make it look like a Hump) The biggest thing is that you will then have to prime and paint the fresh drywall. But this way you wouldn't have an ugly cover where the hole was, but instead something that looks (mostly) like the rest of your wall. If it is near the ceiling, no one will notice if there is a slight imperfection anyways. HTH Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
