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Whoa up there buildinghomes, many of us do not get to drill right above the outlets and switches every single time. Your method for drilling down still leaves a bit of room for error. The tracer trick is neat.

It does, but I measure over how far it should go from the outside wall and from the electrical drop. It usually ends up pretty darned close.

Like I said, new houses is 99% of my business. Old houses can be any which way in terms of construction.