Hole in the Wall

I am led to believe that Hole in the Wall is a Fox TV game show based on the Japanese Nokabe

I first encountered the “Hole in the Wall” as a pub-restaurant in Somerset West South Africa, where we had a few meals, including one end-of-year office staff “Christmas” dinner. I can still recall many of the workmates as if it was yesterday, despite it having happened in the seventies.

This insignificant recollection was triggered by the electrician working on our extension. In connecting the main electrical power source from the existing house distribution board to a sub-board of the new-wing-to-be, he needed to access the board from the back/top, and found that this was best achieved by cutting a hole in the ceiling above the board in the pantry…

(Above): Hole in the wall ceiling. Close enough.

As if that coincidence wasn’t enough, the same electrician was working on the bathroom electrics and tackled the wiring for the steam extractor fan unit. It exhausts through a 100mm flexible pipe to the exterior of the building via a louvred grid in the soffit. He achieved this with a circular saw attachment to his electric drill.

(Above): Another hole in the wall soffit. The flexible ducting protruding from the soffit outside the bathroom.