DIY magic! How to free trapped plug cables without the need to lift or struggle with furniture
- Entrancing video shows how to free trapped cable in a few slick manoeuvres
- Footage from Chengdu City, China, shows a woman accomplish feat in seconds
- She feeds wire under white shelving unit and frees plug without lifting furniture
DIY can often be the ultimate test of patience, but this crafty trick to free trapped or tangled wires might make those building tasks a little easier to complete.
Footage from Chengdu City, China, shows a woman giving a mini-tutorial on how to release a trapped wire from shelving.
In this entrancing video a few slick manoeuvres reveal how it is possible to free a plug cable without the need to do any heavy lifting.
The video opens with the head of the electrical cord stuck on one side of the white shelving bracket, left, before the woman reveals her easy way, right, of getting it out
The video opens with the head of the cable stuck on one side of the white shelving bracket.
As the woman demonstrates, brute force is not enough to pull the cord underneath the shelves.
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Instead she feeds a few inches of cable through to the far side and uses the wire to create a figure-eight knot.
The woman then lies the wire flat and slides the top hoop of the knot underneath the shelving towards the wire head.
The woman then lies the cord flat and slides the top hoop of the knot underneath the shelving, left, towards the cord head before reaching through, right, for the next step
Without lifting the brackets, she pulls the cable head back through the hoop before it it is miraculously freed.
She accomplishes the impressive feat in a matter of seconds - and it will no doubt save future builders a great deal more time.
While it may take a few replays to fully understand how it works, it is bound to make DIY building a much more pleasant experience.
DIY is becoming increasingly popular with the British public, which was confirmed by a survey conducted by Hiscox last year.
The poll found that in 2013, only three per cent of homeowners decided to improve their existing home instead of moving but that figure rose to 15 per cent.
